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Because of the operation of Commodore floppy drives, one write protection scheme would cause the floppy drive head to bang against the end of its rail, which could cause the drive head to become misaligned.
Because of works connected with the Marmaray and Istanbul-Ankara high speed line there are currently no rail services linking Istanbul with the rest of Anatolia.
Because the river bends from west to north nearby at Greenhithe, the rail tunnel goes from east to west while the Dartford Crossing tunnels go from north to south.
Because of the manner in which the tunnel had been enlarged it was no longer round, and for clearance reasons the positive rail had to be of an unusual shape with the top contact surface higher than normal.
Because of London Underground and fast rail connections to central London from transport hubs at Romford and Upminster much of Havering has considerable residential development which has occurred throughout the last century.
Because of its location on both a rail line and the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic site during the American Civil War.
Because Malvern was the closest railroad station to Hot Springs, it became an important junction point for passengers transferring from rail to stagecoach to complete their journey to the spas in Hot Springs.
Because Venlo had both a road and a rail bridge over the river Meuse River (" Maas " in Dutch ) the city was severely damaged during several bomb raids ( 13 October – 19 November 1944 ) on those bridges at the end of the war.
Because a stiff wheel rolling on a rigid rail requires less energy per ton-mile moved than road transport ( with a highly compliant wheel on an uneven surface ), railroads are highly suitable for the movement of dense, bulk goods such as coal and other minerals.
Because it is functionally equivalent to rail, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority presents this line as an integral part of its rail transit system, distinct from its " Rapid " lines, which run in mixed traffic.
Because of good rail links, a large and growing commuter population takes advantage of Kettering's position on the Midland Main Line railway.
Because of the relatively accurate scale of the rolling stock and two rail track, these trains ( not yet referred to as " S " gauge by Gilbert ) were significantly more realistic than their 3 rail O gauge counterparts.
Because of the system's flexibility, it could one day operate seamlessly with SEPTA and RiverLine rail networks, allowing an integration of the systems.
Because this is the form that is typically transported by rail and ship, and cargo of these is often discussed, this usage of the term is very common.
Because Kano is north of the rail junction at Kaduna, it has equal access to the seaports at Lagos and Port Harcourt.
Because fewer rail cars were required to operate Yellow Line service than would be required to run Blue Line service out to Huntington – due to the Yellow Line's shorter route – the line designations were switched.
Because fewer rail cars were required to operate Yellow Line service than would be required to run Blue Line service out to Huntington – due to the Yellow Line's shorter route – the line designations were switched.
Because most of the rail that is being used already exists, the costs mostly went into building new train stations, upgrading track, enhancing crossings, and updating signals.
Because the park sits atop a parking garage and the commuter rail Millennium Station, it is considered the world's largest rooftop garden.
Because the inner pair of tracks were planned to be converted to high-level platform service, a trench was excavated to accommodate heavy rail rolling stock.
Because of the rail station, built in 1884, Lewiston became important to surrounding towns on both sides of the Connecticut River and to Dartmouth College in Hanover.
Because of the different gauge and the centre rail, vehicles cannot inter-run between the railway and the 3 ft gauge MER.

Because and line
Because of his brain injury and the extreme damage suffered to his sight, the patient had to train himself for a new line of work, that of a portfolio-maker, an occupation requiring a great deal of precision in the making of measurements and a fairly well-developed sense of form and contour.
Because far less motion was involved than in a conventional dot matrix printer, these printers were very fast compared to dot matrix printers and were competitive in speed with formed-character line printers while also being able to print dot matrix graphics.
Because no species other than Homo sapiens has survived from the human line of that branching, both chimpanzee species are the closest living relatives of humans.
Because there was no distinct line between personal documents and those meant for publication, we frequently find in his letters both confidential messages and treatises meant for others besides the one to whom he was writing.
Because there is no single straight line of yarn anywhere in the pattern, a knitted piece can stretch in all directions.
Because of potentially lethal dietary and drug interactions, monoamine oxidase inhibitors have historically been reserved as a last line of treatment, used only when other classes of antidepressant drugs ( for example selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and tricyclic antidepressants ) have failed.
Because women transmitted the right to succession, a renowned warrior not of royal birth might be nominated to become king through marriage to a woman in line of succession.
Because of this offset, a portion of the gravitational pull between Earth's tidal bulges and the Moon is perpendicular to the Earth – Moon line, i. e. there exists a torque between the Earth and the Moon.
Because the territorial boundary line between the U. S. and Canada ran through the middle of Lake Erie and then up the Detroit River, combined with the prevailing belief regarding the location of the southern tip of Lake Michigan, the framers of the 1802 Ohio Constitution believed it was the intent of Congress that Ohio's northern boundary should certainly be north of the mouth of the Maumee River, and possibly even of the Detroit River.
Because of the vast number of people coming on line, there are always those who do not know what a crawler is, because this is the first one they have seen.
Because the straight line results from the initiative of a single, unopposed force, its domain is that of the lyric.
Because the token stayed within the hub, it did not have to traverse long cables going to every node as in ARCNET and Token Ring therefore becoming faster than those other deterministic networking standards and being less susceptible to cabling problems, network card failures, and line interference.
Because the pointer of the meter is usually a small distance above the scale of the meter, parallax error can occur when the operator attempts to read the scale line that " lines up " with the pointer.
Because of these properties, linear motors are often used in maglev propulsion, as in the Japanese Linimo magnetic levitation train line near Nagoya.
Because no species other than Homo sapiens has survived from the human line of that branching, both Pan species are the closest living relatives of humans and cladistically are equally close to humans.
Because far less printhead motion was involved than in a conventional dot matrix printer, these printers were much faster than dot matrix printers and were competitive in speed with formed-character line printers while also being able to print dot-matrix graphics as well as variable-sized characters.
Because the line did not have to pull against a rotating spool, much lighter lures could be cast than with a bait casting reel.
Because autocrats need a power structure to rule, it can be difficult to draw a clear line between historical autocracies and oligarchies.
Because accurate measurements of longitude were not possible at that time, the line was not strictly enforced, resulting in a Portuguese expansion of Brazil across the meridian.
Because of his introspective self-loathing of Melnibonéan traditions, his subjects find him odd and unfathomable, and his cousin Yyrkoon ( next in the line of succession, as Elric has no heirs ) interprets his behavior as weakness and plots Elric's death.
Because many telephone companies do not offer naked DSL ( DSL service without POTS line service ), VoIP use is higher amongst cable modem users.
Because gas floats above oil, the thin red contour line marks the gas / oil contact zone.
The contour interval is 2 ft between successive contour line s. Because oil floats above water, the outer red color indicates the elevation of the water / oil contact zone, which is at the bottom of the Petroleum reservoir.

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