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

* 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 increasingly strained relations between the federal and state governments, and a dispute over the special rights of Malays, Singapore separated from the Federation in 1965.

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 the use of these biological weapons, and the apparent lack of medical advancement necessary to defend surrounding regions from them, widespread epidemics such as the bubonic plague quickly moved across all of Europe, destroying a large portion of its population.

Due to widespread and persistent ignorance of HTTP < tt > charset =</ tt > over the Internet ( at its server side ), WWW Consortium disappointed in HTTP / 1. 1 ’ s strict approach and encourages browser developers to use some fixes in violation of RFC 2616.

Due to concerns about widespread and well-documented corruption in Chiang's government throughout his rule ( though not always with his knowledge ), the U. S. government limited aid to Chiang for much of the period of 1946 to 1948, in the midst of fighting against the People's Liberation Army led by Mao Zedong.

Due to widespread cable theft in earlier analog systems, in modern digital cable systems the signals are encrypted, and the set-top box must be activated by an activation code sent by the cable company before it will function, which is only sent after the subscriber signs up.

Due to its widespread distribution, Doom hence became the game that introduced deathmatching to a large audience ( and was also the first game to use the term " deathmatch ").

Due to their popularity in modern media, display-only " nihontō " have become widespread in the sword marketplace.

Due to its widespread adoption and implementation it has been hailed as an example of exceptional international co-operation, with Kofi Annan quoted as saying that " perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol ".

Due to widespread poverty and religious differences, the island has been the site of a separatist movement by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front ( MILF ).

Due to widespread use of the term among lay persons ( often shortened to nympho ) and stereotypes attached, professionals nowadays prefer the term hypersexuality, which can refer to males and females alike.

* Due to a culmination of major droughts, floods, locust plagues, and epidemics, a widespread famine breaks out in the dual Chinese capital cities of Chang ' an ( primary capital ) and Luoyang ( secondary capital ).

Due to widespread use, SINAD has collected several different definitions.

Due to the widespread tradition of women changing their names at marriage, they encounter little difficulty using the common law method at marriage in those jurisdictions that permit it.

Due to their rapid evolution and widespread distribution, ammonoids are used by geologists and paleontologists for biostratigraphy.

Due to Morroco's long history with French colonialism, alongside neighbouring countries including Algeria and Tunisia, sole French-medium education is very widespread, with Arabic being introduced and taught as a second language, as well as the study of a third language later on, usually either English, Spanish, or Italian ( in Libya ).

Due to its extremely widespread use, in Byzantine, African, Italian, French, Spanish, and " insular " ( Irish and English ) centres, there were many slightly different styles in use:

Due to its widespread effect, innovation is an important topic in the study of economics, business, entrepreneurship, design, technology, sociology, and engineering.

Due to: the fact the townsfolk vehemently support the fire department by other means including donations, a widespread dislike of the fee ( which departed from the traditional free gathering Billy Lane originally organised.

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 swampy conditions and widespread disease, someone died almost every day.

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 widespread success of JavaScript as a client-side scripting language for web pages, Microsoft developed a compatible dialect of the language, naming it JScript to avoid trademark issues.

Due to its widespread civilian use in quarries and mining, it has historically been often used by irregular forces such as the Irish Republican Army.

Due to the looser broadcast standards for satellite television in Japan, WOWOW has become a primary means of widespread distribution for anime with themes or subject matter that the broadcast networks cannot show.

This plan had developed from early schemes prior to the Second World War through Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 to a 1960s Greater London Council ( GLC ) scheme that would have involved the construction of many miles of motorway standard roads across the city and demolition on a massive scale. Due to the huge construction costs and widespread public opposition, most of the scheme was cancelled in 1973 and the Westway, the West Cross Route and East Cross Route in east London were the only significant parts to be built.