Due to Anson's absence from the club after 22 years, local newspaper reporters started to refer to the Cubs as the " Orphans ".

Due to subterranean drainage, there may be very limited surface water, even in the absence of any rivers and lakes.

Due to its unique origins and the absence of a fixed recipe, minestrone varies widely across Italy depending on traditional cooking times, ingredients, and season.

Due to the absence of contemporary culinary utensils such as the refrigerator, gas stovetops and ovens, the Indigenous resorted to other means to prepare their food.

Due to the absence of historical data, the timespan between the fourth century BC and the third century AD is known as the " Yerevan Dark Ages.

Due to the absence of extracellular matrix and basal lamina, the development potential of these animals, very successful in their ecological niche, was of course limited, which would explain the low rate of evolution, referred to as bradytely, of their phenotype, their outward form as adults.

Due to the gentle pressing of the grapes and absence of skin contact during fermentation, the dark-skinned varieties also yield a white wine.

Due to his father's absence, Larry was raised solely by his mother and maternal grandmother for the first three years of his life.

Due to several unique factors, most prominently that it has no inlets or tributaries, the waters of Crater Lake are some of the purest in terms of the absence of pollutants in North America.

Due to its strategic position on the rail line, the commercial center thrived in spite of the absence of a road.

Due to Williams ' tour schedules some of the shows were previously recorded to be played in his absence.

Due to the absence of appreciable rainfall, Egypt's agriculture depends entirely on irrigation.

Due to the extremely thin and light diaphragm membrane, often only a few micrometers thick, and the complete absence of moving metalwork, the frequency response of electrostatic headphones usually extends well above the audible limit of approximately 20 kHz.

Due to the absence of displacement limit regulations, manufacturers took increasing liberties with engine size.

Due to these concerns, the Government of India ruled that ayurvedic products must specify their metallic content directly on the labels of the product, but, writing on the subject for Current Science, a publication of the Indian Academy of Sciences, M. S. Valiathan noted that " the absence of post-market surveillance and the paucity of test laboratory facilities India make the quality control of Ayurvedic medicines exceedingly difficult at this time.

Due to the absence of a neutral spacing, double clutching is ill-advised for sequential gear changes, as in a fully sequential gearbox such as a typical motorcycle.

Due to the absence of the King and the economical independence of Brazil, Portugal entered a severe crisis that obliged João VI and the royal family to return to Portugal in 1821.

Due to the absence of Éamon de Valera and Arthur Griffith, Brugha presided over the first meeting of Dáil Éireann on 21 January 1919.

Due to the absence of bands in the RN since the 1950s, these are the only remaining military bands in its service rosters.

Due to Burnley's absence in top flight over the last three decades, Blackburn has also formed rivalries with other regional Premier League clubs, especially Bolton Wanderers, Manchester United and Manchester City, all located in the nearby Greater Manchester area.

Due to the absence of flux or a reducing atmosphere, the part cleanliness is critical when brazing in a vacuum.

Due to the absence of native mammals on these islands, some of the oceanic island taxa have reduced burrs, evolving features that seem to aid in dispersal by the wind instead.

Due to the prevailing absence of any real designs by Bentley, there was no real agreement as to how the mosaics should look, and in one instance, already installed mosaics ( those in the Sacred Heart shrine were removed after the death of the artist, George Bridge.

Due to the absence of a parish church, from its earliest days the Reading Room was also used for religious services and a Sunday School associated with St. Mary's Church, Chesham.

Due to her immense beauty, Zeus was frightened that she would be the cause of violence between the other gods.

Due to concerns over horizontal gene transfer to pathogenic organisms in the wild, the European Food Safety Authority restricts use of this gene ( among other resistance genes ) in commercial genetically modified organisms.

Due to cuts in spending and manpower some universities have been disbanded and their campuses were included as faculties of other, larger educational entities.

Due to their status as an overseas territory of the UK, the Cayman Islands have no representation either on the United Nations, or in most other international organizations.

Due to disagreements between French President Charles de Gaulle and the Commission's agriculture proposals, among other things, France boycotted all meetings of the Council bringing work to a halt until it was resolved the following year by the Luxembourg compromise.

* 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 economic crisis, however, this title has been passed on to various other companies after Dominicana stopped flying.

Due to backstreaming, oil diffusion pumps are not suitable for use with highly sensitive analytical equipment or other applications which require an extremely clean vacuum environment, but mercury diffusion pumps may be in the case of ultra high vacuum chambers used for mercury deposition.

Due to the movement of the Earth around the Earth-Moon barycenter, the apparent path of the Sun wobbles slightly, with a period of about one month ; due to perturbations by the other planets of the Solar System, the Earth-Moon barycenter wobbles slightly around a mean position in a complex fashion.

Due to its availability under the GNU Free Documentation License, a copyleft license, it has in turn been incorporated in whole or part into other free content projects, such as Wikipedia.

Due to the effects of firing the ordnance ( barrel ) at the time, the gunner had to be located somewhat behind the weapon, steadying brace with the other hand.

Due to Hong Kong's nearly 150-year colonial history that saw the stationing of English, Indians and Russians among other ethnic groups as civil servants or traders.

Due to this regulation, hedge funds charging a performance fee are unique compared with other funds.

Due to high cost to extract the other lanthanides a mischmetal with more than 50 % of lanthanum is used instead of pure lanthanum.

Due to their specialized training, English longbowmen were sought as mercenaries in other European countries, most notably in the Italian city-states and in Spain.

Due to English being the foundation-language, or lingua franca, of most computer programming languages these variables are also commonly seen even in programs and examples of programs written for other spoken-language audiences.

Due to its activity at the NMDA receptor it may be more effective against neuropathic pain ; for the same reason tolerance to the analgesic effects may be lesser compared to other opioids.

Due to historical and cultural factors, Canadian English and American English retain numerous distinctions from each other, with the differences being most noticeable in the two languages ' written forms.

Due to their highly valued flavour, these cultivars are now grown in other countries.

Due to lead's toxicity it is no longer used, its replacements being other organometallic compounds such as ferrocene and methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl ( MMT ).

Due to the narrow area of circulation, those in the capital were able to transmit these intoxicating ideals to other such separatists, such as those in Azuero.

Due to his efforts to root out simony and other corruption within the Church, and his connection with science and intellectualism, there were many rumors and legends spread of Sylvester II being a sorcerer in league with the devil.

; 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 its link to other kinds of solar activity, sunspot occurrence can be used to help predict space weather, the state of the ionosphere, and hence the conditions of short-wave radio propagation or satellite communications.