Because Hyrum was Joseph's successor, their deaths caused a succession crisis, and Brigham Young assumed leadership over the majority of Saints.

Because of these differences, corporate lawyers are often consulted in an effort to determine the most appropriate or advantageous state in which to incorporate, and a majority of public companies in the U. S. are Delaware corporations.

Because the size of the Central Committee expanded, the majority of members were either in their first or second term.

Because the majority of diversity and biomass on Earth is microbial, and thus difficult to measure, recorded extinction events affect the easily observed, biologically complex component of the biosphere rather than the total diversity and abundance of life.

Because the vast majority of genes are encoded with exactly the same code ( see the RNA codon table ), this particular code is often referred to as the canonical or standard genetic code, or simply the genetic code, though in fact some variant codes have evolved.

Because he had sealed under duress, however, John received approval from the Pope to break his word as soon as hostilities had ceased, provoking the First Barons ' War and an invited French invasion by Prince Louis of France ( whom the majority of the English barons had invited to replace John on the throne and had him proclaimed king in London in May 1216 ).

Because Banaba was devastated by phosphate mining, the vast majority of Banabans moved to the island of Rabi in the Fiji Islands in the 1940s where they now number some 5, 000 and enjoy full Fijian citizenship.

Because Hyrum was Joseph's logical successor, their deaths caused a succession crisis, and Brigham Young assumed leadership over the majority of Saints.

Because of bad relations between the latter Byzantine Empire and the states of western Europe as epitomized by Loukas Notaras's famous remark " Better the Sultan's turban than the Cardinal's Hat ", the majority of the Orthodox population accepted Ottoman rule as preferable to Venetian rule.

Because the majority of ministers in the Petre Roman government were ex-communists, anti-communist protesters initiated a round-the-clock anti-government demonstration in University Square, Bucharest in April 1990.

Because of the devolution of power, the powers of the Central Committee have increased substantially ; for instance, when a two-thirds majority of the Politburo voted in favour of retaining Lê Khả Phiêu as General Secretary ( the leader of Vietnam ), the Central Committee voted against the Politburo's motion and voted unanimously in favour of removing Lê Khả Phiêu from his post of General Secretary.

Because the majority of electrons are trapped in the Hall current, they have a long residence time inside the thruster and are able to ionize almost all of the xenon propellant, allowing for mass utilizations of 90 – 99 %.

Because it was a conflict fueled by ethnic nationalism, people of minority ethnicity generally fled towards regions where their ethnicity was in a majority.

Because of the unusually large number of candidates receiving electoral votes, no candidate secured a majority and the tie between the two front runners, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, was broken in the House of Representatives.

Because Frederick Christian's eldest son was a minor, his brother Franz Xavier and the Dowager Electress Maria Antonia took the joint regency of the Electorate until the boy's majority.

Because these events constitute the majority of the population and because they tend to have the brightest afterglows, they have been studied in much greater detail than their short counterparts.

Because of the comfortable majority enjoyed by the governing party, bills usually pass with only minor changes.

Because the vast majority of these broadcasts contain nothing but the recitation of blocks of numbers, in various languages, with occasional bursts of music, they have become known colloquially as " Number Stations ".

Because this advice is a matter of public record, the Queen can not easily take a direction which is contrary to the advice of a majority in parliament.

Because we are presented with an overwhelming amount of information every day, we take in only the necessary information to make decisions and rely on heuristics and informational shortcuts the majority of the time.

Because a large majority of the residents of Basin City are criminals, there are several organizations and cartels central to the stories who are vying for monopoly over the various criminal enterprises in the city.

Because the majority of the Court did not agree with Murphy, it effectively gave the FCC power to regulate the networks.

Because of the Dutch multi-party system, no political party ( in the modern sense ) has ever obtained a majority by itself.

Because of the differences in international broadcasting, these copies had been converted to the North American NTSC television standard, and so one chunk of the series remained in its native PAL format, but the majority were found in a poorly-converted ( dating long before digital conversion methods ) NTSC state.

Because reported AIDS cases in Africa and other parts of the developing world include a larger proportion of people who do not belong to Duesberg's preferred risk groups of drug addicts and male homosexuals, Duesberg writes on his website that " There are no risk groups in Africa, like drug addicts and homosexuals ," However, many studies have addressed the issue of risk groups in Africa and concluded that the risk of AIDS is not equally distributed.

Because it is a court of equity, there are no juries, and its cases are heard by the judges, called chancellors.

Because players act in clockwise order, a player " has position " on opponents seated to his right, except when the opponent has the button and certain cases in the first betting round of games with blinds.

Because it may take months, or even years, for criminal cases to come to trial in some jurisdictions, an innocent defendant who is offered a plea bargain that includes a sentence of less time than he would otherwise spend in jail awaiting a trial may choose to accept the plea arrangement and plead guilty.

For example, as of May 2000, per DSM-IV-TR, " Because some cases of Sexual Sadism may not involve harm to a victim ( e. g., inflicting humiliation on a consenting partner ), the wording for sexual sadism involves a hybrid of the DSM-III-R and DSM-IV wording ( i. e., “ the person has acted on these urges with a non-consenting person, or the urges, sexual fantasies, or behaviors cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty ”)".

Because well-preserved Pteranodon skull fossils are extremely rare, researchers use stratigraphy ( i. e. which rock layer of the geologic formation a fossil is found in ) to determine species identity in most cases.

Because it can be difficult to prove " exclusive control ", this element has largely given way in modern cases to a less rigid formulation: that the evidence eliminates, to a sufficient degree, other responsible causes ( including the conduct of the plaintiff and third parties ).

Because different vendors of Unix systems ( and in many cases, different versions of the Unix software ) implemented slightly different behavior and names for important functions, a system administrator was required to have sufficient programming expertise to edit the source code before building the program executables to account for these differences.

Because of all these factors, optimization rarely produces " optimal " output in any sense, and in fact an " optimization " may impede performance in some cases ; rather, they are heuristic methods for improving resource usage in typical programs.

Because the electron has such a tiny charge, however, shot noise is of relative insignificance in many ( but not all ) cases of electrical conduction.

Because all of these printing methods were noisy, lineprinters of all designs were enclosed in sound-absorbing cases of varying sophistication.

Because they are usually paid in excess of the plaintiff's provable injuries, punitive damages are awarded only in special cases, usually under tort law, where the defendant's conduct was egregiously insidious.

Because of the baptism of Jesus, water from the Jordan is employed for the christening of heirs and princes in several Christian royal houses, such as the cases of Simeon of Bulgaria or James Ogilvy.

Because of sensitive dependence on initial conditions, some deterministic models may appear to behave non-deterministically ; in such cases, a deterministic interpretation of the model may not be useful due to numerical instability and a finite amount of precision in measurement.

Because these cases were referred to the ICC by the UN, the ICC has broad authority and jurisdiction for these cases.

Because in vivo hemolysis destroys the red blood cells, in uncontrolled chronic or severe cases it can lead to hemolytic anemia.

In these cases, the contrast medium is thought to reach the vascular system via lymphovenous communications which shunt the material directly into the venous stream, bypassing those lymph nodes distal to the communications, Because less contrast agent is absorbed in lymph nodes, a greater portion of the injected volume passes into the vascular system.

Because passing tones in most cases are shorter, cut-time marches tend to sound " faster " than other marches in a different meter.

Because of their generally faster-paced nature ( and in some cases a smaller learning curve ), real-time strategy games have surpassed the popularity of turn-based strategy computer games.

Because of this similarity with European human rights law, the Supreme Court of Canada turns not only to the Constitution of the United States case law in interpreting the Charter, but also to European Court of Human Rights cases.

Because of the primary Adventist population, most downtown College Place businesses close on Saturday, reopening in most cases on Sunday.

Because of the secretive nature of the messages, the cryptographic function employed by particular stations is not publicly known, except in one ( or possibly two ) cases.

Because of budget cuts, plans for filming were constantly revised and reduced, but in some cases this proved to be an asset rather than a hindrance.