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Because of the inversion of order created by a devious or witty slave, this stock character was perfect for achieving a humorous response and the traits of the character worked well for driving the plot forward.
Because of their ability to harness the power of what is essentially a continuous nuclear fission explosion, NSWRs would have both very high thrust and very high exhaust velocity, a rare combination of traits in the rocket world, meaning that the rocket would be able to accelerate quickly as well as be extremely efficient in terms of propellant usage.
*' Because the traits distinguishing metals and nonmetals are qualitative in nature, some elements do not fall unambiguously in either category.
Because the embedded system marketplace prefers low-power, low-cost CPU designs, VIA began targeting this segment more aggressively because the C3 fit those traits rather well.
Because of Count Wilhelm's predilection for Italian music, Bach had to adapt his style accordingly, but he retained stylistic traits of the music of his father and of his brother, C. P. E. Bach.
Because of the common foundation, the transverse Mercator inherits many traits from the normal Mercator:
Because degeneracy allows for genetic exploration under conditions that require the selective retention of functions / traits, it has been hypothesized to increase evolvability.
Because genes have pleiotropic effects, not all traits may be functional ( i. e. spandrels ).
Because of his interest in eugenics and his unorthodox stance on evolution, McDougall has been adopted as an iconic figure by proponents of a strong influence of inherited traits on behaviour, some of whom are regarded by most mainstream psychologists as scientific racists.
Because the Big Five traits are broad and comprehensive, they are not nearly as powerful in predicting and explaining actual behavior as are the more numerous lower-level traits.
Because of shared physical traits with civets, mongooses, and cats ( Felidae ), its classification has been controversial.
Because of these differences in breeding strategies, different lines of Doberman Pinschers have developed different traits.
Because of the definitive traits that are associated with this robust line of australopithecine, anthropologist Robert Broom erected the genus Paranthropus and placed this species into it.
Because of his commercial traits, Simon finished his life with just five hundred dollars.
Because of their cultural and economical activities, they decided to create a municipality with its own ethnic traits.
Because of these traits, he is described as " this Brummell of cats " – a reference to Beau Brummell, the founder of dandyism.

Because and held
Because less defensive emphasis was placed on the use of the forearms and more on the gloves, the classical forearms outwards, torso leaning back stance of the bare knuckle boxer was modified to a more modern stance in which the torso is tilted forward and the hands are held closer to the face.
Because of the Balkan Wars, the Second International held an extraordinary congress at Basel in 1912.
Because each governor held equal imperium to the equivalent magistrate, they were escorted by the same number of lictors ( 12 ) and could only be vetoed by a reigning Consul or Praetor.
Because the cytochromes ( as well as other complexes ) are held within membranes in an organized way, the redox reactions are carried out in the proper sequence for maximum efficiency.
Because the average duration of a Central Committee meeting decreased, and fewer meetings were held, many Central Committee members were unable to speak.
Because the margin of victory was so close a third election in the summer of 1840 was held.
Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.
Because of their size and need to migrate, gray whales have rarely been held in captivity, and then only for brief periods of time.
Because of this they are not opposed in principle to collectively held property if individual owners of the property consent to collective ownership by contract or other voluntary mutual agreement.
Because leaders are held responsible for their followers ' ability to achieve the organization's goals, their ability to motivate their followers is a critical factor of leadership effectiveness.
Because the loss of property and life in the 1831 rebellion, the British Parliament held two inquiries.
Because of Ribbentrop's firmly held views that Britain was Germany's most dangerous enemy and that an Anglo-German war was thus inevitable, it scarcely mattered to him when his much desired war with Britain came.
Because of both the imperial and the Prussian offices that he held, Bismarck had near complete control over domestic and foreign policy.
Because the prime minister is, in practice, the most politically powerful member of the Canadian government, he or she is sometimes erroneously referred to as Canada's head of state, when, in fact, that post is held by the Canadian monarch, represented by the governor general.
Because it was impossible to tell which hunter fired the shot that caused the injury, the court held both hunters liable.
Because of his actions and the way they were viewed by the people, the word for King, Rex, held a negative connotation in the Latin language until the fall of the Roman Empire.
Because no corporation wants to be held liable for damages, it has to be done by deniable assets, or shadowrunners, invisible to the system where every citizen is tagged with a System Identification Number ( SIN ).
Because Key and Skinner had heard details of the plans for the attack on Baltimore, they were held captive until after the battle, first aboard HMS Surprise and later back on HMS Minden.
Because Congress has not enacted any on-point regulations, States still retain the authority to regulate the dates on which other aspects of the election process are held ( registration, primary elections, etc.
Because of an extended stay in rehab, his performance at Snowbombing, a week-long winter sports and music festival held in the Austrian ski resort of Mayrhofen, was cancelled – with the slot being filled by 2ManyDJs.
Bourke held a high position as chieftain of a senior branch of his sept. Because of his sept leadership he would eventually be eligible for election as Mac William, the second most powerful office in Connacht.
Because of space limitations, meetings held at indoor facilities do not hold many of athletics events typically contested outdoors.
Because joint sessions and joint meetings of both houses of Congress are held in the House chamber, the Speaker presides over all such joint sessions and meetings.
Because of the strong provincial loyalties held by these immigrants, the Qing government felt Taiwan was somewhat difficult to govern.

Because and be
Because motion which begins and ends at discrete places would ( e.g. for Aristotle ) be incomplete.
Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.
Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.
Because the buses would not stop on the parkway, land for bus stations and for parking areas nearby will be needed.
Because they were new men and to be sure that they didn't get lost, Prevot had placed Warren and White in the center of the patrol as it filed out.
Because of a missile's ballistic trajectory, the location of a fixed target must be known quite accurately.
Because of this, only those with truly fine equipment will be able to appreciate the exact degree of the engineers' triumph.
Because of its importance, and because the lack of price competition is well recognized, the industry is under considerable public pressure not to raise its price any more than could be justified by cost increases.
Because agricultural activities are seasonal and the areas of production and harvest of many foods are widely scattered geographically, and because of the high cost of transporting bulk food items any substantial distance to a central processing location, the use of large central processing stations, where low-cost radiation facilities approaching the megawatt range might be utilized, is inherently impracticable.
Because Holstein cattle weren't a beef breed, they were rarely seen on a ranch, though one might be found now and then for the milk supply.
Because of the recent death of the bride's father, Frederick B. Hamm, the marriage of Miss Terry Hamm to John Bruce Parichy will be a small one at noon tomorrow in St. Bernadine's church, Forest Park.
Because your soul was made to be filled with God Himself, not religious functions `` about '' Him.
Because constitutional claims are of great magnitude, appellate courts might be more lenient to review the claim even if it was not preserved.
Because of their high reactivity, they must be stored under oil in sealed glass ampoules to prevent reaction with air.
Because CCD imagers are linear, image processing may be used to subtract away the effects of light pollution, which has increased the popularity of astrophotography in urban areas.
Because an algorithm is a precise list of precise steps, the order of computation will always be critical to the functioning of the algorithm.
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 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 series was at stake, the match was to be " timeless ", i. e., played to a finish.
Because the percentage of each constituent can be varied, with any mixture the entire range of possible variations is called a system.
Because pig iron could be melted, people began to develop processes of reducing the carbon in the liquid pig iron to create steel.
Because of the quantum mechanical nature of the electrons around a nucleus, atomic orbitals can be uniquely defined by a set of integers known as quantum numbers.
Because an alpha particle is the same as a helium-4 nucleus, which has mass number 4 and atomic number 2, this can also be written as:

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