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 large family groups, almost all Kuwaitis at the time lost some family member.

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 fires in the 18th century which destroyed much of the medieval architecture, the city was rebuilt along Late Baroque and Neoclassical lines.

Due to fire suppression efforts and livestock grazing during the early and mid 20th century, low-intensity fires no longer occurred naturally in many groves, and still do not occur in some groves today.

Due to 2010 forest and peat fires the Russian government is under heavy pressure to finance re-flooding of the previously drained bogs around Moscow.

Due to fires, structural failures, and infiltrations, and new organizational requirements and modifications or complete overhaulings of the ornamental trappings there was hardly a moment in which come kind of works have not been under way at the building.

Due to poor building practices and poor fire protection common to boomtown construction, Tombstone was hit by two major fires.

Due to a series of arson and fires beginning in the 1970s, Antlers lost a number of its stores, changing the character of its downtown.

Due to Hyder's secrecy and poor British intelligence, officials in Madras were unaware of his movements until the fires of burning villages just away were seen in Madras.

Due to fires in the early 19th century which burned a majority of the top around the summit, there is little soil cover on the peak and surroundings upland.

Due to Archard's financial difficulties as a result of several fires in 1806, his refineries were declared bankrupt in 1815.

Due to the danger of forest fires, and the damage caused by them in New York State Parks, three fire lookout towers were constructed.

Due to the varying levels of detection capabilities between detector types, manufacturers have designed multi-criteria devices which cross-reference the separate signals to both rule out false alarms and improve response times to real fires.

Due to Woodstock 99's fires and riots, Coachella promoters were not allowed to offer on site camping, a ban that continued until the 2002 festival.

Due to the importance of trees in preventing soil erosion, forest fires that happen in summer are more dangerous to the ecology.

Due to the dry area, it is strictly forbidden ( by the municipicality ) to have any open fires ( including camping grills, etc .).

Due to fires, floods and feuds, Fort Nelson is currently situated in its fifth location.

Due to fires in the early 1920s it was temporarily relocated to Clearwater Beach and then to Lakeland in 1922.

Due to the dense bracken and grass on many parts it has suffered several severe fires in the past decade.

Due to the dense tussock it is very resistant to heath fires.

Due to the fires already burning in other areas, insufficient numbers of fire crews and smokejumpers were available to combat these fires and they began to burn out of control.