Because of shared physical traits with civets, mongooses, and cats ( Felidae ), its classification has been controversial.

Because Ismail Khan was contained by the Afghan National Army, the warlords who opposed him were quickly able to occupy strategic locations unopposed.

Because of this amendment, if the Electoral College fails to resolve who will be the President or Vice President, the incoming Congress, as opposed to the outgoing one, would choose who would occupy the unresolved office or offices.

Because of this important role, shrines to Ksitigarbha often occupy a central role in any Oriental Mahayana temple, especially within the memorial halls or mausoleums.

Because the number of purine bases will, to a very good approximation, equal the number of their complementary pyrimidines within the same strand and, because the coding sequences occupy 80-90 % of the strand, there appears to be ( 1 ) a selective pressure on the third base to minimize the number of purine bases in the strand with the greater coding content ; and ( 2 ) that this pressure is proportional to the mismatch in the length of the coding sequences between the two strands.

Because they occupy the most influential parts of the pitch, midfielders are perhaps more likely to influence the outcome of a match than other positions, especially if they have vision for a good pass or ability to score.

Because the particles cannot exchange places, one might expect their behaviour to be fermionic, but it turns out that their behaviour differs from that of fermions in several important ways: the particles can all occupy the same momentum state which corresponds to neither Bose – Einstein nor Fermi – Dirac statistics.

Because it eats almost anything available, it is able to occupy areas with few resources or harsh conditions.

Because Bahá ' u ' lláh's last will and testament named Muhammad ` Alí as second in rank to ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, he took the opportunity of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's death to try to revive his claim to leadership, but his attempt to forcefully occupy the Shrine of Bahá ' u ' lláh left him on the losing end of a legal battle that completely removed any rights he previously had to the property.

Because of this, it is vital that companies find a white space for their brand, an uncontested category to occupy space in the minds of the buyer.

Because kosher grains occupy more volume ( for equal weight ) the volume of kosher salt should be increased.

Because of the curves in the wall, the bank does not completely occupy its full building lot, and by law the unoccupied and unmarked land reverts to the public, but for a number of small markers embedded in the sidewalk asserting the limits of the building's lot.

Because of a mutiny by Indian soldiers against their British officers, Japanese troops were able to occupy Christmas Island without any resistance.

Because box turtles occupy a wide variety of habitats ( which both vary on a day-to-day, season-to-season, but also species-to-species basis ), a standard box turtle habitat can not be identified.

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 osteoclasts are derived from a monocyte stem-cell lineage, they are equipped with phagocytic-like mechanisms similar to circulating macrophages.

Because of the similar conditions, both reactions in the E1 or E1cb elimination always compete with the S < sub > N </ sub > 1 substitution.

Because of the similar conditions and reagents, the E2 elimination is always in competition with the S < sub > N </ sub > 2-substitution.

Because a high-level language is a practical requirement for developing the most complex programs, functionalism implies that a non-reductive physicalism would offer a similar advantage over a strictly eliminative materialism.

Because this epistle is much shorter than 2 Peter, and due to various stylistic details, some writers consider that Jude was the source for the similar passages of 2 Peter.

Because of their fame, Khufu and his pyramid are object of several modern receptions, similar to kings and queens such as Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Tutankhamen.

Because they do not display inflammation as a primary symptom, they may in fact be similar, but different diseases to sporadic inclusion body myositis.

Because of this, as well as its formatting and usage of emoticons, this novel is similar to what emerged a decade later as the blog format.

Because of the solid form of the tiles, mahjong is sometimes classified as a domino game but plays similar to card games such as rummy.

Because of the landlocked, hilly terrain common plant foods in Massachusetts are similar to those of interior northern New England-including potatoes, maple syrup, and wild blueberries.

Because light is an electromagnetic wave, other forms of electromagnetic radiation such as X-rays, microwaves, and radio waves exhibit similar properties.

* Because of their age, they have established similar institutions and facilities such as printing houses ( Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press ), botanical gardens ( University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Cambridge University Botanic Garden ), museums ( the Ashmolean and the Fitzwilliam ), legal deposit libraries ( the Bodleian and the Cambridge University Library ), and debating societies ( the Oxford Union and the Cambridge Union ).

Because the cluster members are of similar age and chemical composition, the effects of other stellar properties are more easily determined than they are for isolated stars.

Because potassium and sodium are chemically very similar, it took a long time before their salts were differentiated.

Because phase boundaries relate to changes in the organization of matter, such as a change from liquid to solid or a more subtle change from one crystal structure to another, this latter usage is similar to the use of " phase " as a synonym for state of matter.

Because the Epistle of Jude is much shorter than 2 Peter, and due to various stylistic details, the scholarly consensus is that Jude was the source for the similar passages of 2 Peter.

Because the density is so similar to gold ( tungsten is only 0. 36 % less dense ), tungsten can also be used in counterfeiting of gold bars, such as by plating a tungsten bar with gold, which has been observed since the 1980s, or taking an existing gold bar, drilling holes, and replacing the removed gold with tungsten rods.

Because the dielectric layer can be very thin ( thinner than the similar layer in, for instance, an aluminium electrolytic capacitor ), a high capacitance can be achieved in a small volume.

Because interspersed repeats block gene conversion, they protect novel gene sequences from being overwritten by similar gene sequences and thereby facilitate the development of new genes.

Because of the perceived success of the reconciliatory approach in dealing with human-rights violations after political change either from internal or external factors, other countries have instituted similar commissions, though not always with the same scope or the allowance for charging those currently in power.

Because he was the unifying king, Theseus built and occupied a palace on the fortress of the Acropolis that may have been similar to the palace that was excavated in Mycenae.

Because the town lies in the rain shadow ( leeward side ) of the Harz, less precipitation falls here than in similar temperate regions without the protection of a mountain range.

Because Galway imposed taxes on the ships that traded their goods there, the O ' Flahertys, led by Ní Mháille, decided to extract a similar tax from ships traveling in waters off their lands.

Because most embryonic development is outside the parental body, it is subject to many adaptations due to specific ecological circumstances.

Because most embryonic development is outside the parental body, development is subject to many adaptations due to specific ecological circumstances.

Because of resulting ecological destruction and fish kills, less water is diverted today than a few decades ago.

Because of the way it has shrunk dramatically in recent decades, the lake has been labeled an ecological catastrophe by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

Because of its unusual and rugged nature, the Red River Gorge features a remarkable variety of ecological zones.

Because of this, it has been suggested that " oviparous reproduction in monotremes confers advantages over marsupials, a view consistent with present ecological partitioning between monotremes

Because of the distinctive ecological conditions of peat wetlands, they provide habitat for a distinctive fauna and flora.

Because the stands of kauri were dense, the ecological destruction in the affected plateau area ( approximately a fifth of the forest by area, and a quarter by volume of timber ) was essentially complete ( as of the early 1990s most of the affected area contained a thick covering of native grasses with little or no kauri regeneration ).

Because of its tremendous ecological effect on the Colorado River, the Glen Canyon Dam has inspired heavy controversy from environmentalists.

Because of the valuable fishery in the river and also because of the history of heavy metal mining in the catchment of the river, extensive ecological assessments were made both prior to the construction of the tunnel and subsequently.

Because of their great diversity and specific ecological requirements, algae, particularly diatoms, make excellent indicators of water quality.

Because of the widely recognized difficulties of quantifying ecological and social costs, Hahnel emphasized the necessity of utilizing qualitative data in addition to quantitative data to ensure accurate price signals.

Because animals can adapt their life strategies to this regularity, these types of polynyas are of special ecological research significance.

Because of the vast geographic area it occupies, which comprises many different ecological zones, numerous subspecies have been described.

Because of its great ecological diversity the site has been designated as a protected zone, the Parque Natural del Islote de Lobos.

Because ecodesign in the 1970s did not have the benefit of prior research or theoretical models and frameworks, Yeang early years involved doing empirical research, experimental design, and investigative studies of ecological processes that he could replicate or mimic in his humanmade structures.

Because of their higher reproductive rates and ecological opportunism, primary colonisers typically are r-strategists and they are followed by a succession of increasingly competitive flora and fauna.

Because of its ability to grow in this manner, the genetic entity of a colony is potentially immortal on an ecological time scale.

: Because the original oaks still remain, the Arb offers a unique opportunity to reconstruct this extremely rare ecological community.

Because ecological success of mitigation work is not guaranteed, there is a greater risk of net environmental loss through failed, ineffective mitigation work intended to compensate for existing functioning natural resources.

Because the Mdewakantonwan had earlier abandoned the lands because of intrusion by the Chippewa and various ecological reasons, and were effectively living in Minnesota, they effectively were paid for land they no longer occupied.

Because impervious surfaces displace living vegetation, they reduce ecological productivity, and interrupt atmospheric carbon cycling.