Because Albert was a member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, it had been hoped that his election as Grand Master would reverse the decline of the Teutonic Knights since 1410 ; Duke Frederick of Saxony of the House of Wettin had been elected for the same reason.

Because the government refused to consider opposition demands for an independent election commission, the three major opposition parties boycotted the October 1997 presidential election, which Biya easily won.

Because the margin of victory was so close a third election in the summer of 1840 was held.

Because fifteen days can separate the first and second rounds of a presidential election, this means that the President of the Senate can only act as President of the Republic for a maximum period of fifty days.

Because the two round system excludes more than one candidate after the first round, it is possible for a candidate to be eliminated who would have gone on to win the election under EB.

Because of the bullet wound, Roosevelt was taken off the campaign trail in the final weeks of the race ( which ended election day, November 5 ).

Because Congress has not enacted any on-point regulations, States still retain the authority to regulate the dates on which other aspects of the election process are held ( registration, primary elections, etc.

Because his election came very late, however, Julius Nepos could not leave, as the ports were closed for the winter.

Because each state could choose its own election day, voting lasted from April to October.

Bourke held a high position as chieftain of a senior branch of his sept. Because of his sept leadership he would eventually be eligible for election as Mac William, the second most powerful office in Connacht.

Because of the deaths and imprisonments of Académie members during the occupation and other effects of the war, the Académie was unable to meet the quorum of twenty members for his election ; due to the exceptional circumstances, however, his unanimous election by the seventeen members present was accepted.

Because of the machine's shenanigans the Weslaco ballot box was thrown out during the 1928 county election.

Because of the recent election of President Barack Obama this was seen as highly offensive and racist.

Because of the unsettled election disputes during the 1140s over the see of York, when it was contested between William of York and Henry Murdac, Theobald faced little challenge from either William or Murdac as to the traditional dispute between Canterbury and York.

" Because of this and other observed irregularities, doubt remains as to the accuracy of the result of the presidential election as announced today ," he said.

Because many Washington residents were disappointed over the loss of their blanket primary, which the Washington State Grange helped institute in 1935, the Grange filed Initiative 872 in 2004 to establish a blanket primary for partisan races, thereby allowing voters to once again cross party lines in the primary election.

Because of the cancellation, London went on to host the 1948 Summer Olympics, awarded without election.

Because of time zones, election results are broadcast in the eastern parts of the United States while polls are still open in the west.

Because of this, and its dependence on the House of Commons for election, it had virtually no political impact.

Because the strike was by then more than a year old, striking workers could not vote in the election.

Because the 1948 election was for a two-year unexpired term, Long had to run again in 1950 for his first full six-year term.

Because Feinstein was elected to an unexpired term, she became a senator as soon as the election was certified in November while Boxer would not take office until the expiration of Cranston's term in January ; thus Feinstein became California's senior senator, even though she was elected at the same time as Boxer.

Because of his accomplishments as a young boy, Braille holds a special place as a hero for children, and he has been the subject of a large number of works of juvenile literature.

The double-naming of the brothers was explained in the first episode by the elder Luke: Because their parents were so excited over the birth of the younger boy, " they forgot all about me!

Because of this prophecy, Lord Voldemort sought out Harry Potter ( believing him to be the boy spoken of ) and tried to kill him.

Because his father died when he was a boy, he was never known as " Junior.

Because of the great esteem in which the village holds him, Okonkwo is selected by the elders to be the guardian of Ikemefuna, a boy taken prisoner by the village as a peace settlement between two villages after Ikemefuna's father killed an Umuofian woman.

Because of his promise to the boy, Dear left the false news reports unchallenged for the rest of the boy's short life.

Because the prince and whipping boy grew up together they usually formed a strong emotional bond, especially since the prince usually did not have playmates as other children would have had.

Because the boy has a lover as such a valuable role model, he is on his best behavior to not get caught in something shameful.

Because he has been treating the men on board like slaves, they mutiny against Finner, appointing Dexter as Captain, while Dot's friend Jimmie, the cabin boy, rescues her from Finner's clutches.

Because of the quality and experience of our faculty and the careful organization of time set aside for personal instruction and guidance, we believe that a boy will find a superior academic program at Avon Old Farms.

Because of this, she is initially terrified of Edmond, but he tries to convince everyone that he used to be a boy.

Because the only baby they have ever known was called Hannah, they give their little boy this name.

Because of this, her character in the musical is often disliked by audience members and fans, because it portrays her as an ingenue who steals the boy from another, more deserving character ( Éponine ).

Because motion which begins and ends at discrete places would ( e.g. for Aristotle ) be incomplete.

Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

Because the buses would not stop on the parkway, land for bus stations and for parking areas nearby will be needed.

Because they were new men and to be sure that they didn't get lost, Prevot had placed Warren and White in the center of the patrol as it filed out.

Because of a missile's ballistic trajectory, the location of a fixed target must be known quite accurately.

Because of this, only those with truly fine equipment will be able to appreciate the exact degree of the engineers' triumph.

Because of its importance, and because the lack of price competition is well recognized, the industry is under considerable public pressure not to raise its price any more than could be justified by cost increases.

Because agricultural activities are seasonal and the areas of production and harvest of many foods are widely scattered geographically, and because of the high cost of transporting bulk food items any substantial distance to a central processing location, the use of large central processing stations, where low-cost radiation facilities approaching the megawatt range might be utilized, is inherently impracticable.

Because Holstein cattle weren't a beef breed, they were rarely seen on a ranch, though one might be found now and then for the milk supply.

Because of the recent death of the bride's father, Frederick B. Hamm, the marriage of Miss Terry Hamm to John Bruce Parichy will be a small one at noon tomorrow in St. Bernadine's church, Forest Park.

Because your soul was made to be filled with God Himself, not religious functions `` about '' Him.

Because constitutional claims are of great magnitude, appellate courts might be more lenient to review the claim even if it was not preserved.

Because of their high reactivity, they must be stored under oil in sealed glass ampoules to prevent reaction with air.

Because CCD imagers are linear, image processing may be used to subtract away the effects of light pollution, which has increased the popularity of astrophotography in urban areas.

Because an algorithm is a precise list of precise steps, the order of computation will always be critical to the functioning of the algorithm.

Because of independence, the decision whether to use of the axiom of choice ( or its negation ) in a proof cannot be made by appeal to other axioms of set theory.

Because and can be very similar numbers, the precision of the result can be much less than the inherent precision of the floating-point arithmetic used to perform the computation.

Because the series was at stake, the match was to be " timeless ", i. e., played to a finish.

Because the percentage of each constituent can be varied, with any mixture the entire range of possible variations is called a system.

Because pig iron could be melted, people began to develop processes of reducing the carbon in the liquid pig iron to create steel.

Because of the quantum mechanical nature of the electrons around a nucleus, atomic orbitals can be uniquely defined by a set of integers known as quantum numbers.

Because an alpha particle is the same as a helium-4 nucleus, which has mass number 4 and atomic number 2, this can also be written as: