Because, honey, I thought silently, there are plenty of desert islands in every marriage -- long periods when you're hopelessly stranded, together.

Because unlike the Hawaiians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, the Filipinos were willing to fight for their independence, Carnegie believed that the conquest of the islands is a denial of the fundamental democratic principle, and he also urged William McKinley to withdraw American troops and allow the Filipinos to live with their independence.

Because of the absence of scheduled sea transport between the islands, nearly all interisland passenger traffic is by air.

Because of its voracious appetite, the cane toad has been introduced to many regions of the Pacific and the Caribbean islands as a method of agricultural pest control.

Because Finland was a country with relatively small towns with a small workforce, and many industrial centers were small " islands " surrounded by large rural areas, there was social integrity between the urban and rural workers.

Because numerous small islands surround Isle Royale, ships were once guided through the area by lighthouses at Passage Island, Rock Harbor, Rock of Ages, and Isle Royale Lighthouse on Menagerie Island.

Because Kidd was said to have buried treasure in the Comoros islands, and Moroni is the name of the capital city and largest settlement in the Comoros, it has been suggested that Smith borrowed the name of the settlement and applied it to the angel who led him to buried treasure — the golden plates.

Because it was once part of South America, Trinidad has an assortment of tropical vegetation and wildlife considerably more varied than that of most West Indian islands.

Because the islands had few grapes to make wine with, barley beer was used instead, resulting in the development of whisky.

DNA methylation frequently occurs in repeated sequences, and helps to suppress the expression and mobility of ' transposable elements ': Because 5-methylcytosine can be spontaneously deaminated ( replacing nitrogen by oxygen ) to thymidine, CpG sites are frequently mutated and become rare in the genome, except at CpG islands where they remain unmethylated.

Because Dominica is mostly volcanic and has few beaches, development of tourism has been slow compared with that on neighboring islands.

Because off the territory's small land mass and flatter terrain, these methods make more sense on Anguilla than on many other Caribbean islands.

Because the family is ancient and was widely distributed long time ago, modern species commonly are present in forests of various types occurring on all continents, except Antarctica, and on many associated major islands.

Because the cyclone affected the islands as a weak tropical storm, preparations were minimal.

Because of its distance from the mainland, Tangier is very isolated, its nearest neighbors being other islands such as Smith Island, Maryland.

Because of this, the islands are subject to frequent drought conditions, and only those which reach highest into the clouds ( generally, above about 750 m / 2, 500 ft above sea level ) have reliable precipitation.

Because of the probability of wrecks around the islands, calls arose for the establishment of emergency depots for castaways in 1868.

Because the Polynesian islands were settled relatively recently and because internal linguistic diversification only began around 2, 000 years ago, their languages retain strong commonalities.

Because seamounts are isolated from each other they form " undersea islands " creating the same biogeographical interest.

Because of the generally smaller size and isolation of the central islands, few major terrestrial mammals have colonized these, though red and arctic foxes were introduced for the sake of the fur trade in the 1880s.

Because the Meiji government could not sufficiently cope with Russians moving to south Sakhalin, Japan negotiated with Russia over control of the Kuril Islands, resulting in the Treaty of Saint Petersburg that ceded the eighteen islands north of Uruppu to Japan and all of Sakhalin to Russia.

Because of their isolation, the people of the islands however, managed to keep a lot of their traditional ways alive.

Because it is the most populous island, Cook Islanders may often be referred to as Rarotongan, but they may come from one of the other 14 islands in the group, such as Aitutaki or Mangaia.

Because of heavy migration from other islands in the Lesser Antilles and Puerto Rico throughout the 20th century, most native born Crucians are descended from enslaved Africans on other Caribbean islands.

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 of the pen's reliance on gravity to coat the ball with ink, most ballpoint pens cannot be used to write upside down.

Because arcs of circles and ellipses cannot be exactly represented by Bézier curves, they are first approximated by Bézier curves, which are in turn approximated by arcs of circles.

Because Njazidja is geologically a relatively new island, its soil is thin and rocky and cannot hold water.

Because Guest's children are adopted, they cannot inherit the family barony under the terms of the letters patent that created it, though a 2004 Royal Warrant addressing the style of a peer's adopted children states that they can use courtesy titles.

Because interframe compression copies data from one frame to another, if the original frame is simply cut out ( or lost in transmission ), the following frames cannot be reconstructed properly.

Because these natural phenomena cannot be controlled, they inevitably affect the outcome of the given activity or event.

Because the output pulse from a Geiger-Muller tube is always the same magnitude regardless of the energy of the incident radiation, the tube cannot differentiate between certain radiation types.

* Stoppage Because of Strikes: The fighter is overwhelmed by strikes ( blows ), and cannot intelligently defend himself.

Because meiosis is a " one-way " process, it cannot be said to engage in a cell cycle as mitosis does.

Because the chromosomes cannot be distinguished in the synaptonemal complex, the actual act of crossing over is not perceivable through the microscope, and chiasmata are not visible until the next stage.

Because of this topography, the ocean cannot be seen from much of Malden's interior.

Because MIDI is a set of commands that create sound, MIDI sequences can be manipulated in ways that prerecorded audio cannot.

Because DNA polymerase III cannot synthesize in the 3 '→ 5 ' direction, the lagging strand is synthesized in short segments known as Okazaki fragments.

Because individual PET scans are more expensive than " conventional " imaging with computed tomography ( CT ) and magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ), expansion of FDG-PET in cost-constrained health services will depend on proper health technology assessment ; this problem is a difficult one because structural and functional imaging often cannot be directly compared, as they provide different information.

Because it has no finite spatiotemporal extent, a single point of Minkowski space cannot be an occasion of experience, but is an abstraction from an infinite set of occasions of experience, as explained in Process and Reality.

Because humans are mortal and limited, a single human religious system cannot encompass all of the religious or spiritual absolute reality ...." ( p. 167 )

Because of the way these activities structure the economic framework, Habermas felt that the state cannot be looked at as passively responding to economic class interests.

Because the viewfinder and the film lens cannot share the same optical path, the viewing lens is aimed to intersect with the film lens at a fixed point somewhere in front of the camera.

Because modern technology requires a supporting infrastructure, more primitive methods are employed — for example, horses instead of tractors ( because tractors cannot reproduce themselves ).

Because it cannot be applied in thick layers as oil paints can, tempera paintings rarely have the deep color saturation that oil paintings can achieve.

Because of this, confidential information cannot be the subject of theft, as it is not capable of being taken as only tangibles can be taken.

Because a tachyon always moves faster than light, we cannot see it approaching.

Because no Equal Rights Party ballot for 1872 has been preserved, this claim cannot be confirmed.