Due to globalization, they are becoming increasingly important, resulting in expansion projects such as the Panama Canal expansion project.

Due to increasingly widespread knowledge of the experiment, recent replications of Milgram's procedure had to ensure that the participants were not previously aware of it.

* Stricter design rules – Due to lithography and etch issues with scaling, design rules for layout have become increasingly stringent.

Due to the increased implementation of slave codes, which created differential treatment between Africans and the white workers and ruling planter class, the island became increasingly unattractive to poor whites.

Due to various changes in the ecosystem, some that are human-induced, efforts have been made to provide enhanced protection to some species of native fish and the increasingly threatened Whitebark Pine.

Due to their innate gentle disposition and intelligence, Texas Longhorns are increasingly being trained as riding steers.

Due to increasingly slack religious practice in Lindisfarne, Cuthbert was sent to Lindisfarne as a way to reform the religious community.

Due to growth in the Boise metropolitan area, Eagle has become increasingly suburban in recent years.

Due to the influx of tourists and greater contact with the mainland in recent years, however, the Ocracoke brogue has been increasingly influenced by outside dialects.

Due to its strong character, nearby recreational opportunities and development properties, Roslyn is increasingly a desirable destination.

Due to the Elven-based Norwegian presence in the seas around the south of Sweden and into the Baltic Sea, Norway increasingly relied on Baltic grain from Lübeck.

Due to the increasingly consensus-based decision making process of the Chinese leadership, there is debate on how much power Hu held personally to effect change.

Due to exceptional overcrowding, workhouses in Ireland stopped admissions during the Irish Potato famine and increasingly resorted to outdoor relief.

Due to Neill's work on Billy Whizz and Tim Traveller, the strip appeared on an increasingly irregular basis in the late 1990s, and after Neill's death in 2000, it disappeared from The Beano.

Due to the success of Metal Gear Solid, and to an extent Tenchu and Thief, stealth elements have become increasingly incorporated by a wide range of video games, with numerous action games since then using stealth elements in some way or another.

Due to its strategic location in one of the most populous areas in the world ( nearly 100 million people in Henan alone ) and in China's railway, road and aviation transport networks, Zhengzhou is increasingly attracting domestic and international investment as well as migrants from other areas, transforming the city into one of the largest economic centers in China.

Due to these increasingly frequent visits, new laws address the safety of boaters, commercial fishermen, and the whales themselves: off the coast of Boston, for example, cargo vessels must slow down to protect the much slower North Atlantic Right Whale and there is talk of erecting an apparatus for the much more heavily trafficked waters surrounding New York that can warn boats of a whale's presence and location so as to avoid accidentally striking the animal.

Due to his knowledge of economics, Cullen became increasingly involved in the disputes surrounding the Minister of Finance, Roger Douglas, who supported the liberalisation of trade and the sale of state assets plus deep tax cuts.

Due to increasingly common arguments, Pierce dismissed Graham and Dotson around this time.

His strong personality along with beliefs such as " second-degree separation ," which defines that Christians should not only be separated from " the world " and theological liberals, but also theological conservatives who cooperated with them, brought strife and, " Due to his insistence on issues such as this, his colleagues at the Grace Seminary found it increasingly difficult to work with him.

Due to its warm water and salty lakes it became increasingly popular during the next centuries.

Due to management and the unions ' ongoing battle over labor contracts, service at the airline declined resulting in a series of increasingly contentious and politically charged events.

Due to the push for System-on-a-chip ( SoC ) processors, modern devices increasingly have the northbridge integrated into the CPU die itself ; examples are Intel's Sandy Bridge and AMD's Fusion processors ( both released in 2011 ).

Due to the stuffy atmosphere and vapors in the dark and cramped hold, Pym becomes increasingly comatose and delirious over the days.

Due to various political and cultural clashes throughout history, relations between the two nations have been greatly strained.

Due to the nature of MSMA, a shift in the direction of magnetization is produced when applying a stress to a fully strained element exposed to a bias field.

Due to competing interests, from time to time the Anishinaabeg had strained relations with the various Iroquois nations, Sauk, Fox and Dakota peoples.

Due to the strained relations between Turkey, Syria and Iraq however, continuous traffic remained rare, and other means of transport soon reduced its strategic and economic relevance.

* Due to the events of this episode, Giles ' and Jenny's relationship will remain strained.

Due to strained relations with his superiors in the cathedral chapter, Dumage left on 30 March 1719, at the age of 45, and became a civil servant.

Due to strained relations with the west, Iran had to procure new equipment from Brazil, the Soviet Union / Russia and the People's Republic of China.

Due to his two periods of exile in 1904 – 1909, to escape the British invasion of 1904, and from 1910 – 1912 to escape a Chinese invasion, he became well aware of the complexities of international politics and was the first Dalai Lama to become aware of the importance of foreign relations.

Due to obvious geographical reasons, relations with Malaysia and Indonesia are most important.

Due to both states sharing the same religion, being former British colonies, and refusing to recognize Israel as a legitimate nation, Pakistan and Sudan have shared generally close and warm relations for decades.

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 West's close relations with the United States and the capitalist states, the influence of socialism had far more deeper roots in the West-Pakistan population.

Due to these poor relations the area was not settled.

Due to growing disputes with the French and closer trade relations with Pennsylvania-based merchants, the Wyandot burned their village and relocated to the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in what is today Cleveland in 1748.

Due to the break in diplomatic relations between Israel and the USSR, most émigrés traveled to Vienna, Austria, or Budapest, Hungary, from where they were then flown to Israel.

Due to that double way of being, he caused different effect in those that had relations with him: the simple ones were comforted by his optimisms, but those touched by depressing passions changed friendship into hate and produced personal issues, divisions and created organizations that, because of original vice, will always give bitter fruit.

Due to the ancient land relations and taxation and regulation under the British Raj, at the time of independence, India inherited a semi-feudal agrarian system, with ownership of land concentrated in the hands of a few individual landlords.

Due to her familiarity and relations with the tribes in the area she had strong ideas about the leadership needed in Iraq.

Due to poor relations between the two countries, instead of exchanging ambassadors Iran maintains an interests section at the Pakistani embassy in Washington, D. C., while the United States has maintained an interests section at the Swiss embassy in Tehran.

Due to tense relations between the two nations over Gibraltar, extradition between the two countries was not followed.

Due to this she seems to have been ignorant of mature adult relations and its full implications.

Due to diplomatic relations with the Mongol Empire, Hethum himself traveled to the Mongol court in Karakorum, Mongolia, which was recorded in the famous account " The Journey of Haithon, King of Little Armenia, To Mongolia and Back " by Hetoum's companion, the Armenian historian Kirakos Gandzaketsi.

Due to the earthquake, relations between the United States and Iran thawed.

Due to this it is attempting to establish closer relations with Taiwan, including attempting to set up easier access to and from cities in Taiwan, with irregular service to Hualien already established.

Due to the close relations between the Ottoman Empire and France, Ottoman architecture began to be influenced by the Baroque and Rococo styles that were popular in Europe.

Due to the history of complex Polish-Ukrainian relations, the Polish Eagles Cemetery was neglected because the Ukrainian authorities did not want to rebuild this monument of little Polish soldiers defending the city in 1920s.

Due to the animosity between the parties, a special committee was set up to examine labor relations.

Due to his relations with the RDA, which was linked to the French Communist Party, M ' Ba was seen as a communist and propagandist in the colony ; for the authorities, these suspicions had been confirmed when M ' ba was involved in the 1949 RDA congress in Abidjan.

Due to the uncertain status of Finno – Soviet relations in the years after the Continuation War, and the precise interpretation of the treaty's wording, Finland followed the Warsaw Pact countries ' decision and did not participate in the Marshall Plan.

Due to the monoamine hypothesis of depression, which asserts that decreased concentrations of monoamine neurotransmitters leads to depression symptoms, the following relations were determined: " Norepinephrine may be related to alertness and energy as well as anxiety, attention, and interest in life ; of serotonin to anxiety, obsessions, and compulsions ; and dopamine to attention, motivation, pleasure, and reward, as well as interest in life.