Due to rational ignorance, the vast majority of voters will be unaware of the effort ; in fact, although voters may be aware of special-interest lobbying efforts, this may merely select for policies which are even harder to evaluate by the general public, rather than improving their overall efficiency.

Due to the complexity associated with operating in a marine environment, naval architecture is a co-operative effort between groups of technically skilled individuals who are specialists in particular fields, often coordinated by a lead naval architect.

Due to the influence of his teachers, Huang Shouyi and Qu Fangmei, Song made no effort to pursue the civil service examinations, and was interested mainly in world event and the counterculture of his time.

Due to the adoption of a conventional offensive ( and the logistical effort needed to support it ), PAVN placed itself squarely in the sights of U. S. air power and the casualties were high.

Due to their size and the power of poison, hornets are able to kill large or dangerous insects such as honey bees, grasshoppers and locusts without difficulty or much effort.

Due to the increased amount of publicly available resources regarding nuclear weapons, it is reasonable to assume that a viable weapon design could be reached with even less effort today.

Due to the contract impasse, he missed an opportunity to play in his father's home country, Japan, as the Mighty Ducks opened the season with a two-game series against the Vancouver Canucks in Tokyo – an effort on the league's part to attract attention to the sport ahead of the Olympics.

Due to this incident, an internationally approved effort was made to secure Tokyo from future spiritual threats, thus the formation of the Imperial Capital Defense Program and the Imperial Assault Force.

Due to current concerns about terrorism, a great deal of effort went into ensuring that the tunnels are highly blast-resistant.

Due diligence in supplier quality ( also known as due care ) is the effort made by an " SQE " ( Supplier Quality Engineer ) to validate conformance of product provided by the seller to the purchaser.

Due to Canada's important contributions to the British war effort in 1914 – 18, Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden insisted that Canada be treated as separate signatory to the Treaty of Versailles and it subsequently joined the League of Nations.

Due to the lower logical effort, NAND gates are typically preferred to NOR gates.

Due to Parker's effort, from 1850 to the onset of the American Civil War in 1861, only twice were slaves captured in Boston and transported back to the South.

Due to financial difficulties within the Brintons group as a whole in mid 2000, the New Zealand yarn making factory was sold in an effort to keep other factories open.

* Due to the Brazilian dictatorship's unwillingness to get more deeply involved in the Allied war effort, by 1942 a popular saying was said at a session by Getulio Vargas: " it's more likely for snakes to start to smoke now than for the BEF to set out.

Due to the war effort mostly, in the first peacetime year of 1946, federal spending still amounted to $ 62 billion, or 30 % of GDP, up from 3 % of GDP in 1929, before the Great Depression, New Deal, and Second World War.

Due to this effort, the peoples were transformed into a major ethnic group in Kenya.

Due to this eagle's ability to remain aloft for long periods with minimal effort, the Lepcha people of India's Darjeeling District described it as a bird that never sat down.

Due to Barth's connections with the Japanese label Zero and German company MTM Music Bobby felt there was sufficient interest in AXE to make a renewed effort to put the group back together, albeit with a slightly revised line-up, and the release of a brand new album, aptly titled Five.

Due to the intense nature of honors coursework, students vying for a spot in the Illinois Centennial Honors College should be prepared to dedicate additional time and effort to their schoolwork.

Due to the considerable effort involved in making the traditional demi-glace, it is common for chefs to substitute a simple jus lié of veal stock or to create a simulated version, which the American cookbook author Julia Child referred to as a " semi-demi-glace ".

Due to the raids, he instituted a massive diversification effort to disperse new bearing factories, stockpiling every bearing available during the bad weather over the winter, and replacing ball bearings with other forms of low-friction devices wherever possible.

Due to their exposure a great deal of effort must be put into designing and configuring bastion hosts to minimize the chances of penetration.

Due to the song's success, In the Groove was re-issued as I Heard It Through the Grapevine and peaked at number two on the R & B album chart and number sixty-three on the album chart, which was at the time Marvin's highest-charted solo studio effort to date.

Due to the conservation of momentum requiring the parent nucleus to recoil, the effect acts much like the ' kick ' of a rifle butt when a bullet goes in the opposite direction.

Due to the state's weak fiscal condition and corrupt politics, little progress was made until 1907, when the Legislature replaced the Department of Highways with the Department of Engineering, within which there was a Division of Highways.

Due to the nature of lossy algorithms, audio quality suffers when a file is decompressed and recompressed ( digital generation loss ).

Due to its popularity in the region, the Eastern European countries that refined the event became the dominant force in the sport when it was reintroduced.

Due to the Malaccan Sultan lodging a complaint with the Chinese Emperor against the Portuguese invasion, the Portuguese were greeted with hostility by the Chinese when they arrived in China.

Due to its power source, the ACU sets off a thermo-nuclear explosion when destroyed.

Due to the death of Thietmar of Merseburg, the principal chronicler of that period, there is little information about Mieszko II's life from 1018 until 1025, when he finally took over the government of Poland.

Due to its high moisture content, it is traditionally served the day after it is made, but can be kept in brine for up to a week, or longer when sold in vacuum-sealed packages.

Due to high fixed costs, when demand fell, these newly-merged companies had an incentive to maintain output and reduce prices.

Due to a common enemy, diplomatic cooperation between the two countries dramatically got back on track during the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Vladimir Putin was elected the President, and then the Prime Minister of Russia, and along with Chinese leader Hu Jintao opposed UN Peacekeepers in Darfur.

Due to the complexity of its preparation and the difficulty in perfecting it, the dish was sometimes used by families as a test when recruiting a cook.

Due to poor sales of Grim Fandango, a high-profile adventure game by LucasArts, there was a perception that humorous adventure games were no longer viable, so when Vivendi Games took over Sierra, Space Quest VII was canceled.

Due to its heavily padded feet being able to absorb the impact on its body, it has remarkable stamina when running.

Due to the precession of Earth's rotational axis, Thuban was the naked-eye star closest to the north pole from 3942 BC, when it moved farther north than Theta Boötis, until 1793 BC, when it was superseded by Kappa Draconis.

Due to the Doppler shift, the absorption lines in the spectrum of a star will be shifted slightly toward the red ( or longer wavelengths ) if the star is moving away from the observer, or toward blue ( or shorter wavelengths ) when it moves toward the observer.

Due to the hardships of the late 19th-and 20th-century China, when meat and poultry were difficult to come by, sumptuous feasts are still offered in some Asian countries as a practice to the spirits or ancestors.

Due to the limited availability of WordNets, researchers have overlooked WordNet as a resource when they work on computational semantics.

Due to the ubiquity of support for X software on Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, X is commonly used to run client applications on personal computers even when there is no need for time-sharing.

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Due to her attributes as a protector and mother, as well as a lusty aspect gained when she absorbed some aspects of Hathor, she became the patron goddess of sailors, who spread her worship with the trading ships circulating the Mediterranean Sea.

Due to climatic imperatives, Caribana is held in the summer when Caribbean costumes may be paraded comfortably, rather than adhering to the traditional winter dates of the other Carnivals in which the festival is strongly rooted.

Due to lack of a clear historical precedent in Scotland's history as a fully separate country before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, there was only one occasion when a similar situation arose, i. e. on the death of the monarch the heir was outside the country and not available to be crowned more or less immediately.

Due to the shorter repeater spacings required by digital systems, long-distance still used FDM until the late 1970s when optical fiber was improved to the point that digital connections became the cheapest ones for all distances, short and long.

Due to its pro-German stance, Hungary received favourable territorial settlements when Germany annexed Czechoslovakia in 1938 – 1939 and received Northern Transylvania from Romania via the Vienna Awards of 1940.