Because opium is commonly grown and consumed by the Hmong in the highlands of Thailand, many Hmong refugees also have undergone addiction treatment at Wat Tham Krabok.

Because of his refusal to enter one of the learned professions, he was disowned by his father, and for the next ten years he lived a bohemian existence.

Because of the weak international position and its labor policies ( most peasants lived through a subsistence economy ), Pétion's government was perpetually on the brink of bankruptcy.

Because of residential segregation, most classes lived together in Greenwood.

Because of the broad variety of religious communities with their different histories, characteristics, customs, and missions, the Vatican Council did not give specific indications, and left to each individual community the authority to determine what needed to be changed in accord with the spirit of their founders, the needs of modern life, and the situations where they lived and worked.

Because of this unique process, Madeira is a very robust wine that can be quite long lived even after being opened.

Because the Kotsoteka and Yamparika lived in the northern part of the Comancheria they were called Northern Comanches.

Because they lived in dangerous or dark and gloomy places, the people were careful to placate the taniwha with appropriate offerings if they needed to be in the vicinity or to pass by its lair.

Because Witherspoon's father worked for the U. S. military in Wiesbaden, Germany, she lived there for four years as a child.

Because the majority of the county's population lived in Newport, Alexandria was not a popular choice as county seat at that time.

( Because the primary hospital in eastern Harford County is Harford Memorial in Havre de Grace, the town is recorded as the birthplace of many people who never lived there.

Because many Chinese immigrants eventually lived there, some called the community " Chinatown ," but it also went by several other names.

Because of its location near the 100th Meridian, the town was surveyed eight different times, which meant that some early residents lived in both Texas and Oklahoma without ever moving.

Because of its beautifully landscaped streets and parks, and its man-made lake, Ridley Park became popular in the late 19th century and early part of the 20th century as a summer resort for wealthy Philadelphians who built most of the Victorian style homes still lived in today.

Because of their lofty virtue, they lived to a great age and ruled over a period of great peace.

Because telephone service boundaries did not always exactly match governmental and other jurisdictional boundaries, a user might dial 911, only to discover that he had been connected to the wrong dispatch center because he had telephone service from one location but lived within the boundaries of another jurisdiction.

* Musician Tim Rose lived on West 46th street, Restaurant Row, in Hell's Kitchen for a decade or more in the 1980s and 90s, and later referred to it as " skid row " in a song called " Because You're Rich.

Because of an affair with a girl he had to leave and Constant moved to the University of Edinburgh, where he lived at Andrew Duncan, the elder and became friends with James Mackintosh, and Malcolm Laing.

Because they lived so much like gypsies, the band adopted the name The Gipsy Kings.

Because of the slow and episodic nature of the geologic record, two apparently contemporaneous fossils may have actually lived centuries, or even millennia, apart.

Because Laura was, in fact, 2 to 3½ years old while her family lived in Indian Territory during 1869 – 1870, and did not remember the incidents herself, Laura did more historical research on this novel than on any other novel she wrote, in an attempt to have all details as correct as possible.

Because Americans lived so far from the well-springs of Western science and manufacturing, they often had to figure out their own ways of doing things.

Because of his father's career and World War I, the family moved several times, and mother and son sometimes lived apart from Powell's father.

Because knowledge of human Y chromosomes is still incomplete, Y-chromosomal Adam's DNA sequence, his position in the family tree, the time when lived, and his place of origin, are all subject to future revisions.

Because of his father's death when Rice was quite young, he lived with friends.

Because of the weak, induced dipole-dipole interaction between helium atoms, their macroscopic physical properties are mainly determined by their zero point energy (" ground state kinetic energy ").

Because the political franchise at the start of the revolution was relatively narrow, the original " Left " represented mainly the interests of the bourgeoisie, the rising capitalist class ( with notable exceptions such as the proto-communist Gracchus Babeuf ).

Because the French government did not want to spend too much money on its colony it allowed for the establishment of the so-called Concessionary Companies, monopolies given a free hand to exploit the colony's resources except at a few strategic places, mainly around the Congo River.

Because a state can only be admitted to the UN by the approval of the Security Council and the General Assembly, a number of states that may be considered sovereign states according to the Montevideo Convention criteria are not members because the UN does not consider them to possess sovereignty, mainly due to the lack of international recognition or opposition from certain members.

Because Indian tribal governments retain sovereignty over tribal members, the U. S. Congress in 1968 enacted a law that essentially applies most of the protections of the Bill of Rights to tribal members, to be enforced mainly by tribal courts.

Because it takes so long to ingest a prey item, hunting mainly happens around dusk ; the onychophorans will abandon their prey at sunrise.

Because warfare had caused large numbers of the population ( mainly in the countryside ) to die or to flee, numerous immigrants arrived from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Lorraine, Savoy and other areas after 1648 and until the mid-18th century.

Because of its excellent harbour, Mindelo ( on the island of São Vicente ) became an important commercial centre during the 19th century, mainly because the British used Cape Verde as a storage depot for coal which was bound for the Americas.

Because of this, they mainly would farm many types of corn, beans and squash.

Because of the growing incoming orders and the enlarged dimensions of ships it soon became necessary to enlarge the yard facilities and mainly the slipways.

Because of intensive construction of warships, A. G. „ Weser ” often was target of allied air-raids during the Bombing of Bremen in World War II, mainly in 1944 and 1945.

Because stalls are most commonly discussed in connection with aviation, this article discusses stalls as they relate mainly to aircraft, in particular fixed-wing aircraft.

Because music videos are mainly intended to promote the artist, such videos are comparatively rare ; three early 1980s examples are Bruce Springsteen's " Atlantic City ", directed by Arnold Levine, David Mallet's video for David Bowie and Queen's " Under Pressure ", and Ian Emes ' video for Duran Duran's " The Chauffeur ".

Because of several club remixes created mainly by Hex Hector, the song peaked at number 2 on the Hot Dance Club Play.

Because of its susceptibility to atmospheric and electrical interference, AM broadcasting now attracts mainly talk radio and news programming, while music radio and public radio mostly shifted to FM broadcasting in the late 1970s.

Because of this, there are few fishing boats remaining in the harbour these days, which is now mainly home to yachts.

Because most people traveled either on two or four feet due to the lack of trains and automobiles, meeting places were selected mainly on the convenience of their location

Because the Portuguese established themselves in Macau, Chinese commercial relations, mainly the silver trade with Japan, were improved under John III's rule.

Because of the relative high altitude, the most part of Zuid-Beveland ( mainly the area of Goes ) was relatively safe.

Because these viral particles have a defective core, the virions released consist mainly of non-infectious particles.

Because of the extended and beautiful beach close by Ouddorp has a large number of camping grounds which is a big attraction for other inland Europeans, mainly Germans.

Because many Ojibwe were historically formerly located mainly around the outlet of Lake Superior, which the French colonists called Sault Ste.

Because of their extreme masses they have relatively short lifespans and are mainly observed in young cosmic structures such as open clusters, the arms of spiral galaxies, and in irregular galaxies.

Because of the harsh conditions of day-to-day life in the Pale, some 2 million Jews emigrated from there between 1881 and 1914, mainly to the United States.