Due to the large percussion section utilized in the Broadway musical West Side Story, composer Leonard Bernstein chose to utilize a string section without violas.

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 the large size of the contrabass's strings, it is not uncommon to see players using plectrums made from a leather shoe or boot heel.

Due to the relatively large strength of the electromagnetic force, black holes forming from the collapse of stars are expected to retain the nearly neutral charge of the star.

Due to potentially large differences in value over slight differences in a coin's condition, some commercial coin dealers will repeatedly resubmit a coin to a grading service in the hope of a higher grade.

Due to the large Muslim population in western China, many Chinese restaurants cater to, or are run by, Muslims.

Due to the large number of calculations, a work in progress is usually only rendered in detail appropriate to the portion of the work being developed at a given time, so in the initial stages of modeling, wireframe and ray casting may be used, even where the target output is ray tracing with radiosity.

Due to their large size, lanthanides, actinides, and early transition metals tend to have high coordination numbers.

Due to the large caloric intake these athletes must consume it can be particularly tricky to ensure they obtain the nutrition required to maintain muscle mass.

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 its expense, D-1 was used primarily by large television networks.

Due to the success of the James Bond film series the Italian film industry made large amounts of imitations and spoofs in the Eurospy genre from 1964-1967.

Due to its large size, the Golgi apparatus was one of the first organelles to be discovered and observed in detail.

Due to the large quantities of English loanwords, modern Japanese has developed a distinction between and, and and ; with the latter in each pair only found in loanwords.

Due to many people missing, she collected a large sum of money in her boat.

Due to the large number of stories, it is particularly difficult for a completionist fan to read every story in the series.

Due to the Sicilian influence on Siculo-Arabic, Maltese has many language contact features and is most commonly described as a language with a large number of loanwords.

Due to its usefulness, ping has been implemented on a large number of operating systems, initially BSD Unix, but later others including Windows and Mac OS X.

Due to large number of defectors, the Afghan armed forces in 1985 was reduced to around 47, 000.

Due to the extremely large value of the speed of light, c, a small decrease in mass is associated with a tremendous release of active energy ( for example, the kinetic energy of the fission fragments ).

Due to its proximity to the expanding University of Plymouth and the city centre, large numbers of students now live in the area.

Due to the 1973 National Archives Fire, a large number of retroactive Purple Heart requests are difficult to verify since all records to substantiate the award may very well have been destroyed.

Due to the rotary engine's large rotational inertia, it was possible to adjust the appropriate fuel / air mixture by trial and error without stalling it, although this varied between different types of engine, and in any case it required a good deal of practice to acquire the necessary " knack ".

Due to regular exposure to large bodies of water, all recruits in the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard are required to complete basic swimming or water survival training.

Due to its specific food requirements, the animal is only found in regions where termites of the family Hodotermitidae occur.

Due to the involvement of the Schomberg family in the invasion, Charles Louis Schomberg was made Marquess of the town.

Due to the vast amount of extant correspondence between Isabella and her family and friends, her life is unusually well-documented.

Due to his illness the family moved back to Norwich, New York to the farm of Ruth ’ s maternal grandparents, the Shattucks.

Due to the popularity of the soprano violin, the entire consort eventually took on the name " violin family ".

Due to the practice of dividing territories among different branches of the family, by the early 16th century junior lines of the Palatine Wittelsbachs came to rule in Simmern, Kaiserslautern, and Zweibrücken in the Lower Palatinate, and in Neuburg and Sulzbach in the Upper Palatinate.

Due to this great deal of family wide morphological similarity, no consensus has yet emerged on the number of genera in the family.

Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean Sea, Alghero was built around a fortified port, founded around 1102 by the Genoese Doria family.

Due to his father's work, the family traveled frequently.

Due to family discord, Armand Peugeot in 1896 founded the Société des Automobiles Peugeot.

Due to his father's work, Sheen also spent part of his childhood in Bermuda, where the family lived on St. John's Road, Pembroke.

Due to the vulnerable situation, the rule of the republic went to the hands of the Visconti family of Milan.

Due to their sympathies, the patriarch of the family, Tomaas Azzameen, smuggles bacta for the Alliance in the aftermath of the Battle of Hoth.

Due to the education of the younger members of the family becoming a financial worry, on 10 March 1843, Carl Wilhelm Siemens left for London.

Due to Southington's popularity as a family suburb, the town has undertaken plans to expand all schools to accommodate the growing enrollment.

Due to the economic downturn the family owned park has decided to close its doors, citing declining visitors and growing insurance costs.

Due to the intervention by Home Secretary John Anderson, at the behest of her father, she was left to live out her days with her mother at the family home at Swinbrook, Oxfordshire.

Due to its low tax base and family friendly environment, Fletcher is also a magnet for industry that chose the area for its beauty and wealth of educated workers.

Due to illness he retired from acting to concentrate on a book about the Chaney family legacy, A Century of Chaneys, which remains to date unpublished in any form.

Due to new genetic research, it has now been placed in the vastly expanded family Plantaginaceae.

Due to her family traditions, she encouraged imperial ideas in the mind of her consort.

Due to the lack of manorial control, land was divided between all the sons in a family rather than just passing to the eldest.