Due partly to the nature of the terrain and evolution in transportation systems, rail travel has suffered greatly at the hands of bus and air competition.

Due to the exploding complexity of digital electronic circuits since the 1970s, partly due to Moore's law in semiconductors, circuit designers needed digital logic descriptions to be done at a high level without specifics to a particular electronic

* The 2010 film Due Date starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifinakis was partly filmed in Las Vegas, and was used as a fake border crossing into Mexico.

Due partly to economic struggles and thefts, the market has lost some traders.

Due partly to kenaf fibres being naturally whiter than tree pulp, less bleaching is required to create a brighter sheet of paper.

Due partly to a brief by future U. S. Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis, the U. S. Supreme Court upheld the Oregon law in Muller v. Oregon, 208 U. S. 412 ( 1908 ) despite ruling in 1905 in Lochner v. New York that a maximum hour law for bakers was unconstitutional.

Due partly to the cab's propensity to rust and also to the admittedly short life of commercial vehicles, any Roadtrain in commercial operation is now a very rare sight indeed, although a small number of vehicle remain in use throughout the country as recovery vehicles.

Due partly to disputes over what his role in the band was and his pay would be ( some reports indicated that Vincent had asked for, and was flatly denied, a percentage of the band's gross profits ), and despite the exhortations of both Simmons and Stanley, all through his tenure with the band Vincent refused to sign any contract making his employment official.

Due to the Czech Media Council's rules against foreign ownership, the license was granted to a company controlled by Železný-CET21-which, with the legal assistance of Miroslav Šipovič signed a licensing agreement with a joint venture partly owned by CME.

Due partly to excessive expectations, partly to the changing nature of the market and the inherent difficulty of keeping up with rapidly changing technology, these ambitions went largely unrealized.

Due to the SRU's high debt, partly as a result of the redevelopment of Murrayfield Stadium, retrenchment was called for and the four professional sides were reduced to two.

Due to the SRU's high debt, partly as a result of the redevelopment of Murrayfield – called for retrenchment.

Due partly to the publicity surrounding Uri Geller in the 1970s, bent spoons have become a common visual symbol of the paranormal.

Due partly to the large amount of time spent by the state legislature on local matters, the Maryland Constitution was amended in 1915 to allow counties the option of operating under a charter form of government.

Due partly to its location and longevity, it has proven to be one of the top feeders to larger theaters, and several of its performers have also performed as part of The Second City.

Due to this, and partly to the American market's general low awareness of the Le Mans 24 Hour race, it was only a moderate success at the box office there.

Due to the change of order the black bloc had partly passed and demonstration guards could stop the police provocation peacefully helped by lower ranked officers who did not want to carry out orders afraid of being beaten.

Due partly to disputes over what his role in the band and his pay would be ( some reports indicated that Vincent had asked for, and was flatly denied, a percentage of the band's gross profits ), Vincent never signed any contract making his employment official.

Due to the difficulty of using these methods, they did not realize that the nebulae were actually galaxies outside our own Milky Way, nor did they speculate about the cosmological implications.

Due to the closure of WON, part of the player community responded by creating their own WON network, dubbed WON2.

Due to the political nature of the Commentarii, Caesar's purpose in publicizing his own achievements may have distorted the significance of events and the motives of those who participated.

Due to her own romantic feelings toward Lex, Lena refuses, and is beaten to death by her father.

Due to the depiction of the mythological nymphs as females who mate with men or women at their own volition, and are completely outside male control, the term is often used for women who are perceived as behaving similarly.

Due to the Torah injunction not to eat chametz during Passover, () observant families typically own complete sets of serving dishes, glassware and silverware ( and in some cases, even separate dishwashers and sinks ) which have never come into contact with chametz, for use only during Passover.

Due to guilt, this rage is transmuted into a masochistic fantasy of being beaten by the father, substituting the boy ’ s own buttocks for the mother ’ s breasts and idealizing the father out of hatred of the mother, thereby substituting a homosexual for a heterosexual bond.

Due to largescale British migration to Perth, Western Australia, many British youths in that city joined skinhead / sharpies gangs in the late 1960s and developed their own Australian style.

Due to its own economic development and the recent EU enlargements up to 28 members ( 2007 ), Spain had a GDP per capita of ( 105 %) of EU average per capita GDP in 2006, which placed it slightly ahead of Italy ( 103 %).

Due to the lack of own resources, Spain has to import all of its fossil fuels.

Due to weight issues such as shielding, many nuclear propulsion systems are unable to lift their own weight, and hence are unsuitable for launching to orbit.

Due to incidences in which these frogs were released and allowed to escape into the wild, African Clawed Frogs are illegal to own, transport or sell without a permit in the following US states: Arizona, California, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, Hawaii, Nevada, and Washington state.

Due to their own experience with acting, Birch's parents were reluctant to encourage her in the profession, but were persuaded to show her photograph to agents by a babysitter who noticed her imitating commercials.

Due to the consistently low number of entries for these categories, The Recording Academy decided to combine all these music variations into the new Best Regional Roots Music Album, including polka, which lost its own separate category in 2009.

Due to this popularity, English manufacturers began offering their own versions built using traditional English methods: concertina reeds instead of long-plate reeds, independent pivots for each button, and hexagon-shaped ends.

Due to the City of Vacaville's failure to honor the promised removal of a significant financial condition imposed on Portner when he built the stadium with his own money, Portner was forced to sell the stadium at a fire sale price and ultimately had to place the team in bankruptcy to reorganize its debts.

Due to the Huguenots ' early ties with the leadership of the Dutch Revolt and their own participation, some of the Dutch patriciate are of part-Huguenot descent.

Due to the tradition of Salic Law, which did not allow women to inherit the throne of France, he was succeeded by his first cousin's son, Francis I ( who was also his son-in-law ), who founded his own line of French kings.

Due to the above history, Delos-unlike other Greek islands-did not have an indigenous, self-supporting community of its own.

Due to remoteness from the rest of Maine and a perceived lack of connection with Maine government, as well as a strong connection with neighboring Canada, politicians of Aroostook County, Maine, have proposed making Aroostook part of New Brunswick or spinning off the county as its own state, probably named Aroostook, since the 1990s.

Due to SHSB's shareholders ' reluctance to inject their own reserves into SHSB and the company's practice of awarding contracts at high premiums, SHSB had to take up substantial loans.

Due to unique location of Brighton Township, and its size, it has no real business of its own.

Due to the lack of maintenance throughout the township's roads, residents of many areas broke off to form their own municipalities.

Due largely to O ' Ceallaigh's efforts of persuasion, the record company allowed O ' Connor, 20 years old and by then seven months pregnant, to produce her own album.