Because of ethnic politics, valuable farmland in Kurdish territory has not contributed to the national economy, and inconsistent agricultural policies under Saddam Hussein discouraged domestic market production.

Because competition lowered their profits, and because of the doctrines of mercantilism, in 1602 the companies united into a cartel and formed the Dutch East India Company, and received from the government the right to trade and colonise territory in the area stretching from the Cape of Good Hope eastward to the Strait of Magellan.

Because the western boundary was contested at the time of the Purchase, President Jefferson immediately began to organize three missions to explore and map the new territory.

Because Moldova is a small country in terms of its territory telecommunications companies managed to achieve good coverage in both wired and wireless communications infrastructure.

Because the geographical territory in which Occitan is spoken is surrounded by regions in which other Romance languages are used, external influences could have influenced its origin and development.

Because Carol II lost so much territory through failed diplomacy, the army supported seizure of power by General Ion Antonescu.

Because the Umayyad rulers based in Córdoba were unable to extend their power into Frankish territory, they decided to consolidate their power within the Iberian peninsula.

Because it does not take a political position regarding devolution to a strictly defined territory, the Wessex Society can afford to assume a relaxed position about where exactly the boundaries of cultural Wessex lie.

Because the Camargue is for a large part administratively part of Arles, the commune as a whole is the largest commune in Metropolitan France in terms of territory, although its population is only slightly more than 50, 000.

Because of this victory, Boleslav freed Moravia from Magyar raids and expanded his territory to Upper Silesia and Malopolska.

Because Britain would not use Oregon for the purposes of spreading democracy, thought O ' Sullivan, British claims to the territory should be overruled.

Because Eliza was born in free territory, she was technically born as a free person under both federal and state laws.

Because Port Jefferson was the closest point on the canal system for the vast territory east of Sidney and Port Jefferson, it became an important center for commercial activity almost overnight.

Because of the 1948 incorporation, Houston did not incorporate Deer Park's territory into its city limits.

Because of the 1935 incorporation, Houston did not incorporate Galena Park's territory into its city limits, while Houston annexed surrounding areas that were unincorporated.

Because of the 1955 incorporation, Houston did not incorporate Hedwig Village's territory into its city limits, while Houston annexed surrounding areas that were unincorporated.

Because of the 1947 incorporation, Houston did not incorporate Jacinto City's territory into its city limits, while Houston annexed surrounding areas that were unincorporated.

Because of the incorporation, Houston did not incorporate Jersey Village's territory into its city limits.

Because of this females are much less likely to retain the territory than males in the event of the death of a partner.

Because a large group of the Uriankhai tumen defected to Iburai, Dayan Khan was first defeated at Turgen Stream at present-day Tumed territory.

Because of the breakup, fewer people needed to travel to the capital of the trust territory.

Because of its physical territory located deep into the north-eastern part of Thailand which was once a territory of Khmer or what is modern day Cambodia, Phimai ’ s Architecture and cultural decorations are heavily influenced by Khmer cultures.

Because the Protestant nobles had not received the confiscated property of the Catholics on Bethlen's territory and thus rescinded their support for Bethlen, and because Bethlen was not directly supported by the Ottomans, Bethlen started peace negotiations.

Because of this, its main stars have no particular pattern and it is devoid of bright deep-sky objects.

Because the breasts are principally composed of adipose tissue, which surrounds the milk glands, their sizes and volumes fluctuate according to the hormonal changes particular to thelarche ( sprouting of breasts ), menstruation ( egg production ), pregnancy ( reproduction ), lactation ( feeding of offspring ), and menopause ( end of menstruation ).

Because of consilience, the strength of evidence for any particular conclusion is related to how many independent methods are supporting the conclusion, as well as how different these methods are.

Because the diffeomorphism invariance of the theory does not allow any particular space-time background to be singled out as the " true " space-time background, general relativity is said to be background independent.

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 of the particular rarity of the granite, the best stones can cost as much as US $ 1, 500.

Because SSL operates below HTTP and has no knowledge of higher-level protocols, SSL servers can only strictly present one certificate for a particular IP / port combination.

Because pressure was once commonly measured by its ability to displace a column of liquid in a manometer, pressures are often expressed as a depth of a particular fluid ( e. g. inches of water ).

Because many members of religious traditions believe in things that exist in profoundly different ways from more everyday things, objects of religious belief both create particular philosophical problems and define central metaphysical concepts.

* Because of imprecision in old star catalogs, it may not be clear exactly which star within a constellation a particular name corresponds to ( e. g., Alniyat can refer to Sigma Scorpii or Tau Scorpii, Chara ).

Because events are spacetime points, an example of an event in classical relativistic physics is, the location of an elementary ( point-like ) particle at a particular time.

Because each processor's System Declaration can be compared to the document's SGML Declaration it is always possible to know whether a document is supported by a particular processor.

Because they express a relationship between vectors, tensors themselves must be independent of a particular choice of coordinate system.

Because music written for early trumpets required the use of a different trumpet for each key — they did not have valves and therefore were not chromatic — and also because a player may choose to play a particular passage on a different trumpet from the one indicated on the written music, orchestra trumpet players are generally adept at transposing music at sight, sometimes playing music written for the B trumpet on the C trumpet, and vice versa.

Because the disorder transcends the boundaries between several health-care disciplines — in particular, dentistry and neurology — there are a variety of treatment approaches.

Because, when we get to the part about a particular decision that causes the tree to appear out of thin air, we draw a blank.

Because of their endearing ( if quirky ) personalities and widespread popularity, the characters have been described as positive international icons of both modern British culture in particular and the British people in general.

Because the US Congress was divided between slave and non-slave state members, it could not reach agreement on supporting construction of a particular route.

Because of the cliff effect, it can be difficult for users to tell if a particular system is right on the edge of failure, or if it can tolerate much more noise before failing.

Because of Donal's attitude, the Joyces began calling that particular fortress " Cock's Castle.

Because the rats are encouraged to act via the reward of pleasure, not muscularly compelled to behave in a particular manner, their behavior under MFB stimulation is likened to a carrot-and-stick model of encouraged behavior versus a system of mind control.

Because of this, and by the nature of the storylines focusing on particular groups of characters, in any week the series comprises between 20 and 30 speaking characters out of a regular cast of about 60.

Because some of the less familiar Romance languages branched off early from the others ( Sardinian in particular, followed by Romanian and related Eastern Romance languages ), it is also common to reconstruct later stages: e. g. Proto Continental Romance ( after Sardinian branched off ); Proto Italo-Western Romance ( after Sardinian and Romanian branched off ); and Proto Western Romance ( after the branching-off of Sardinian, Romanian, and the central and southern Italian languages, including standard Italian ).

Because of these and other anthologies ( such as the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series ), his own fiction, and his criticism, Carter is considered one of the most important popularizers of genre fantasy in general, and S & S in particular.