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Due to costly court expenses and immediate jailing of those accused of criminal offenses, people in the Song preferred to settle disputes and quarrels privately, without the court's interference.
Due to the dangers of lightning, aircraft operating in U. S. airspace have been required to have static discharge wicks to reduce the possibility of attracting a lightning strike, as well as to mitigate radio interference due to static buildup through friction with the air, but these measures may be insufficient for positive lightning.
Due to the interference of Ravage ( the same future Ravage who appears in the Beast Wars ), most of the events of the original animated feature do not transpire ; most importantly the Battle of Autobot City does not occur, and Optimus Prime and Megatron do not have their final showdown, meaning that Optimus Prime does not die, and Megatron is never reformatted into Galvatron.
Due to governmental interference, East Germany did not see much of this influence until the mid-1970s.
Due to interference with the ship's computers, several crew members were trapped in it until the engineering crew managed to force open the doors.
Due to the frequencies chosen, the 2. 8 MHz audio carrier ( Right Channel ) and the lower edge of the chroma signal are very close together and if filters are not carefully set during mastering, there can be interference between the two.
Due to Ric Flair's interference, Van Dam lost the match.
Due to interference from La Familia and a belt shot from Edge, he was able to defeat Batista.
Due to political interference, the concession with Lavalin was cancelled in 1992, in spite of Bangkok's chronic traffic congestion.
Due to RF interference from full-power WBZY FM 105. 3, it requested to go back to 94. 5 in July 2010, regaining its old frequency ( and therefore callsign ) by December that year.
Due to interference from Roddenberry's assistant / gofer Richard Arnold, Paramount revoked FASA's license soon after the book was published and at Arnold's urging began to contradict FASA's material early in Star Trek: The Next Generations run.
Due to this speculative interference, there are times when purchasing power has also declined.
Due to the high activation energy (> 5eV ) required for switching between states, the NRAM switch shows excellent resistance to outside interference like radiation and operating temperature that can erase or flip conventional memories like DRAM.
Due to the interference of powerful and mysterious sorcerer Macros the Black, the elves and dwarves mistakenly perceive treachery, and the truce dissolves into an all-out conflict.
Due to multipath interference as an analog television station, it is now a digital-only station, which also allows a much greater broadcast range on its 7-kilowatt signal ( although ATSC is also extremely prone to multipath ).
Due to the nature of its signal and antenna placement, KGO broadcasts on a north-to-south axis, keeping itself free from interference originating from WGY during the night-time and overnight hours when the station broadcasts at 50, 000 watts.
Due to the interference of a Mii-dera monk with Taira sympathies, the Minamoto army arrived too late to help defend the temple.
Due to potential interference from clear-channel Chicago powerhouse WLS-TV as a result of all the flat Midwestern land, the station moved from channel 7 to VHF channel 8 and increased its power from 28, 000 to 100, 000 watts on December 8, 1953.
Due to the 24-hour nature of the band, the wide variety of ranges that can be spanned with it, and its shared nature, it tends to be extremely crowded, and interference from other amateurs and broadcasters can be a serious limiting factor.
Due to multiple-beam interference, light incident on the lower-reflectivity surface of a Gires – Tournois etalon is ( almost ) completely reflected, but has a phase shift that depends strongly on the wavelength of the light.
Due to RF interference getting into the movie studio's " talkies " sound equipment, the transmitter was moved in 1928 to the roof of the Warner Theater, now the Hollywood Pacific Theatre, at 6423 Hollywood Blvd.
Due to interference from WBCQ-FM, a new FM radio station which launched in Monticello, Maine in September 2008, the station applied to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission for a frequency change to 104. 5.
* Due to several instances during the 2003 – 04 playoffs, officials are instructed to strictly enforce illegal contact, pass interference, and defensive holding.
Due to its tower lying in close proximity to the open waters of Lake Michigan, both its analog and digital signal can travel with local quality in excess of 120 miles to the east without interference.

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Due to its positioning in the South Pacific Ocean, it is frequently hit by typhoons between December and March.
Due to the troubled times the empire was enduring, he had by far the greatest number of rebellions against him of all the Byzantine emperors.
Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.
Due south the plateau rim is formed by three parallel steps with level ground between them.
Due to imprecision in the standard English language, two completely different feelings experienced by two different people can be represented by an identical verbal expression.
Due to his lack of expertise in orchestration, the American composer George Gershwin had his Rhapsody in Blue orchestrated and arranged by Ferde Grofé.
Due to the acquisition of the Atari Consumer Division by Jack Tramiel in 1984, a number of planned peripherals for the system were canceled.
Due to recorded predictions of the destruction of the temple, the Gospel of Mark is believed by many critical scholars to have been composed around or shortly after the fall of Jerusalem due to prophecies assumed to be ex post facto regarding the destruction of the temple, and both traditional and critical scholarly consensus maintains that it was the first written of the four canonical gospels.
Due to its size Accrington is represented by a number of wards in the Borough of Hyndburn.
Due to its location in the European Plains, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate.
Due to rioting and damage to shops caused by incendiary devices, an estimated total of worth of damage had been done to local businesses.
Due to his complete independence as a filmmaker, Chaplin has been identified by Andrew Sarris as one of the first auteur filmmakers.
Due to its proximity to the Sahara, most of the Cape Verde islands are dry, but on islands with high mountains and farther away from the coast, by orography, the humidity is much higher, giving a rainforest habitat, very degraded by the strong human presence.
Due to the rescue efforts by the Caymanians using canoes, the loss of life was limited to eight.
Due to problems with Pinochet, Leigh was expelled from the junta in 1978 and replaced by General Fernando Matthei.
Due to the Caso Degollados (" slit throats case "), in which three Communist party members were assassinated, César Mendoza, member of the junta since 1973 and representants of the carabineros, resigned in 1985 and was replaced by Rodolfo Stange.
Due to an affliction affecting bats in the northeastern US known as white nose syndrome ( WNS ), the US Fish & Wildlife Service has called for a moratorium effective March 26, 2009 on caving activity in states known to have hibernacula ( MD, NY, VT, NH, MA, CT, NJ, PA, VA, and WV ) affected by WNS, as well as adjoining states.
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 the matter wave nature of electrons and their smaller mass, they occupy a much larger amount of volume compared with the nuclei, and this volume occupied by the electrons keeps the atomic nuclei relatively far apart, as compared with the size of the nuclei themselves.
Due to the large Muslim population in western China, many Chinese restaurants cater to, or are run by, Muslims.
Due to the increasing involvement of the Cardinal bishops in the curia, their dioceses ( except Ostia, which is administered by the Holy See ) are administered by diocesan bishops.
Due to its somewhat concealed, but very potent nature, this hypothetical idea is described by some experts as " banal imperialism.

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