Due to the blocking presence of successive mountain ranges, the Interior of the province has a semi-arid climate with certain locations receiving less than 250 mm ( 10 ") in annual precipitation.

* Due to high intelligibility between certain languages across many nations, it has been possible to make special pan-regional versions of Big Brother.

Due to its arrangement, groups, or columns, and periods, or rows, of elements in the table either share several chemical properties, or follow a certain trend in characteristics such as atomic radius, electronegativity, etc.

* Due to special electronic effects such as ( second-order ) Jahn-Teller stabilization, certain geometries are stabilized relative to the other possibilities, e. g. for some compounds the trigonal prismatic geometry is stabilized relative to octahedral structures for six-coordination.

Due to its role as humankind's first tool, certain cultures have attached spiritual and religious significance to the knife.

; Low throughput: Due to varying load from other users sharing the same network resources, the bit rate ( the maximum throughput ) that can be provided to a certain data stream may be too low for realtime multimedia services if all data streams get the same scheduling priority.

Due to certain counterexamples that could otherwise be raised against these counterfactual conditions, Nozick specified that:

Due to the proximity and on some occasions similarity of certain doctrines, there are many areas where Buddhists and Hindus share religious views and practices.

Its Due Process Clause prohibits state and local governments from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without certain steps being taken to ensure fairness.

The Court has ruled that, in certain circumstances, the Due Process Clause requires a judge to recuse himself on account of concern of there being a conflict of interest.

Due to the Kramers – Kronig relations, a linear medium with dispersion also exhibits loss, so the sine wave propagating in a dispersive medium is attenuated in certain frequency ranges that depend upon the medium.

Due to certain similarities of form, the velvet worms were usually grouped with the water bears to form the taxon Protoarthropoda.

Due to the certain public outcry, he went on, the matter was to be kept secret until all the details were thought out.

Due to what social psychologists call the vividness effect, a tendency to notice only certain distinctive characteristics, the majority population tends to draw conclusions like gays flaunt their sexuality.

Due to British influence, however, only citrus products may be sold as " marmalade " in the European Union ( with certain exceptions ), which has led to considerable complaints from those countries.

Due to the widespread availability of such devices, the technique of blind digital intubation of the trachea is rarely practiced today, although it may still be useful in certain emergency situations, such as natural or man-made disasters.

Due to legal reasons, names which referenced certain bands or singers had to be changed in the English translation.

Due to losses from spontaneous emission and other processes, after a certain time the stored energy will reach some maximum level ; the medium is said to be gain saturated.

Due to their refusal to adapt to the demands of the main stream music business, as well as to financial mismanagement, a certain " outlawish " image in the eyes of the large radio and TV stations and a fan community which often forgot that the band had to make a living out of the music and would have despised any commercial ambitions, they were not able to translate their musical success and widespread popularity into financial stability.

Due to the lack of evidence, and the confusion of whether the Wa were the descendants of Koreans, again no certain information is discernible.

Due to the loss of archives in 1695 and again in 1940, there are few certain facts of van der Weyden's life.

Due to significant ambiguities in the articles with certain terms and concepts and even more so to the rapidly developing nature of war and military technology the original articles had to be revised and expanded, largely at the Second Geneva Convention in 1906 and Hague Convention of 1899 which extended the articles to maritime warfare.

Due to certain ambiguities regarding Brod's wishes, the proper disposition of the materials is now being litigated.

Due to licensing restrictions and programming rights issues, Canadian viewers of Spike see alternate programming whenever Spike airs certain films such as the James Bond film series, or other certain series programs.

Due in part to her exposure to the powerful telepathic influx of Species 8472, Kes begins to " evolve " into a different state of being.

Due to its superior location, Ayutthaya quickly became powerful, politically and economically.

Due to the show's strong themes of female empowerment, the most powerful members of the team are often female ( Buffy and Willow ), while the men play passive roles such as that of father-figure ( Giles ) and supportive best friend ( Xander ).

Due to the age of the earlier System / 360 and System / 370 hardware, it is a relatively safe assumption that Hercules will outperform them when running on moderately powerful hardware, despite the considerable overhead of emulating a computer architecture in software.

Due to the lack of succession law and a strong concept of meritocracy, whenever the succession was in dispute, princely governors or powerful dignitaries claiming their merit gathered their forces and moved on the capital to press their claims, culminating in several bloody coups.

Due to the design of its 24dB / octave filter, its three oscillators, and tuning instabilities which tend to keep the oscillators moving against one another, the Minimoog can produce an extremely rich and powerful bass sound.

Due the nature of its function, the Loader has a powerful thrust with its fork arms.

Due to their intimate relationship with the underlying hardware, they are one of the most powerful and efficient types of references.

Due to his unique parentage, his infamous " huff ' n puff " is a form of wind control that has been shown to be powerful enough to smash trees down, blow out an army of flaming animated puppetmen, and Bigby once conjectured that even a brick house would most likely be blown to bits by it.

Due to its patronage and growing popularity among the upper classes, the Tendai sect became not only respected, but also politically and even militarily powerful.

Due to their diseased bulk, their plague monk troops are extremely tough, and deliriously fanatical in combat, providing a needed role of holding up powerful enemies without breaking in the relatively low-leadership army of the Skaven.

Due to the influence of the powerful and corrupt Biff Tannen, gambling was legalized in 1979.

Due to its array of skilled soldiers and its many connections with the outside world, Bregan D ' aerthe is a valued ally of many powerful drow houses.

Due to descent from Genghis Khan, the family was called Mughal, or mogul, persianized version of the former's clan name Mongol. The English word mogul ( e. g. media mogul, business mogul ) was coined by this dynasty, meaning influential or powerful, or a tycoon.

Due to her incredibly powerful and versatile voice, Agnes is asked to sing the parts from the background, unbeknownst to Christine or the audience.

Due to the various powers of committee selection and bill assignment, the lieutenant governor is arguably considered more powerful than the Governor of Texas, and is considered one of the most powerful lieutenant governorships in the United States.

Due to its high damage, high rate of fire and regenerating ammo, it is arguably one of the most powerful weapons.

Due to not being infected by a techno-organic virus as Cable was, X-Man achieved vast telepathic and telekinetic powers and was one of the most powerful mutants in existence during his lifetime.

Due to their size, the U. S. and UK-based law firms are the most prestigious and powerful in the world, and they tend to dominate the international market for legal services.

Due to slow sales thanks to growing consumer preference for more powerful engines, Magna's imported 4-cylinder was dropped in March 1999, in time for the TH facelift.

Due to the venality and cutthroat tactics of the party chartering his one-man trading vessel, Tuf inadvertently becomes master of Ark, an ancient, 30-kilometer-long " seedship ," a very powerful warship with advanced ecological engineering capabilities.

Due to this, the S ' uthlam authorities want the Ark for themselves as both a resource to wring higher calorie production from their star system's biology and as a powerful weapon of war.

Due to feedback from Heckler & Koch, the production rifle was chambered for the more powerful 7. 62mm NATO.