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 proximity to France, French television channels are also available.

Due to a number of Parisian conventions that had to be honored ( including extensive ballets ), it became Verdi's first work in the French Grand opera style.

Due to military manoeuvres of imperial and French forces, he was forced to make a detour to the south, bringing him to Geneva.

Due to pressure against the Adams Administration from Jefferson and his supporters, Congress released the papers related to the XYZ Affair, which rallied a shift in popular opinion from Jefferson and the French government to supporting Adams.

Due to military shortages and lack of organisation in French territory, many breaches of the Continental System occurred as French-dominated states engaged in illicit ( though often tolerated ) trade with British smugglers.

Due to his good relationships with Louis VII, Géza II asked the French king to be his son Stephen's baptism godfather.

Due to the prolonged French defense, many Allied troops were able to escape to Dunkirk.

Due to Grenoble's geographical situation, French troops were garrisoned in the city and its region during the Italian Wars.

Due to its location, Brest is regarded as the first French port that can be accessed from the Americas.

Due to internal instability and French military disasters in 1798 and 1799, the Directory only lasted for four years.

Due to continued losses inflicted by the Mexican guerrillas loyal to the Republic and the threat of an American military intervention, Napoleon withdrew French troops from Mexico in 1866, which left Maximilian and the Mexican monarchists doomed to defeat in 1867.

Due to the tradition of Salic Law, which did not allow women to inherit the throne of France, he was succeeded by his first cousin's son, Francis I ( who was also his son-in-law ), who founded his own line of French kings.

Due to French diplomatic pressure, Japan later deported Châu to China.

Due to a new system of forward supply bases devised by the Marquess de Louvois, the French were able to advance surprisingly fast.

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 his relation to Dacko and experience abroad in the French military, Bokassa was able to quickly rise through the ranks of the army, becoming the Central African army's first colonel on 1 December 1964.

Due to the French colonial rule in the Indian territory of Pondicherry, India has a connection with other members.

Due to its high French population, mainly made up of bankers and associated household support staff, it has long held the unofficial title of the 21st arrondissement of Paris.

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 fears of tides and hurricanes in the 18th century, the capital of French Louisiana was later moved by colonial governor Bienville, in 1723, from Biloxi to a new inland harbor town named La Nouvelle-Orléans ( New Orleans ), built for the purpose in 1718 – 1720.

Due to growing disputes with the French and closer trade relations with Pennsylvania-based merchants, the Wyandot burned their village and relocated to the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in what is today Cleveland in 1748.

Due to this success of the French Army, Ostrołęka appears on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Due to weather conditions at the time, airflow through the tunnel was from the Italian side to the French side.

Due to the nature of the first-past-the-post electoral system, which ignores the popular vote and only awards power based on the number of ridings won, this decimated the Liberal caucus.

Due to the introduction of the MMP electoral system, a New Right " Association of Consumers and Taxpayers " party, known as ACT New Zealand was formed by ex-Labour New Right-aligned Cabinet Ministers like Richard Prebble and others, and maintaining existing New Right policy initiatives such as the Employment Contracts Act, while also introducing US-style " welfare reform.

When Sousa Franco and his SPD-inspired social democrats started their break with the rest of the party he referred to a division between " a rural wing, led by Sá Carneiro, and an urban wing, more moderate and truly social democratic, close to the positions of Helmut Schmidt " Due to the electoral influence of ruralism on the PSD's politics they may be seen inside of or influencing most factions.

Due to electoral law restrictions, however, they were forbidden to use a " palma real " as a logo because of its previous use in an election ; therefore, a coconut ( Cocos nucifera ) palm tree was used instead.

Due to his prior association with Jai Andhra movement in 1972, Positioning himself and BJP for electoral gains in case of a division of Andhra Pradesh, he persuaded BJP to become pro-telangana and stalling proceeding in Rajya Sabha.

Due to the changes in the electoral law, the Kadets were reduced to a relatively small ( 54 seats ) opposition group in the Third Duma ( 1907 – 1912 ).

Due to the Spanish voting regulations ( legislación electoral española ), the blank ballot is recognized as None of the above ( voto en blanco ) but has very little chance to influence the distribution of seats within a democratic election.

Due to electoral fusion, Mayor Bloomberg ran on the Independence Party and Liberal Party lines in November.

Due to the small area of Gibraltar and its territorial continuity, precincts served only as polling places, not political units, and there are no electoral districts served by the members, who were instead elected " at large " to serve the territory as a whole.

Due to the two round electoral system the liberals were required to cooperate.

Due to the small margin of victory being, the Puerto Rican electoral laws state that a recount must be performed, and that once this recount is finished, the official winner will be certified by the CEE-PUR.

Due to the MMA ’ s undemocratic nature and monopolization by the JI and JIUF, Pir Muhammad defected, forming a “ forward bloc of ten MMA ’ s in the assembly .” To highlight unraveling of the party, although Qazi Hussain Ahmed, leader of the JI officially revoked Pir Muhammad ’ s affiliation with the MMA, Fazlur Rahman of the JUIF declared the JI dissident as an honorary member of the MMA, given he withdrew his name right before the electoral process.

Due to Premier Mike Harris ' Progressive Conservative government changing Ontario's provincial electoral boundaries to match the federal ones for the 1999 Ontario general election, the Legislature was reduced to 103 seats, from 130.

Due to the 2001 census, Canada's 301 electoral districts increased to 308 as of April 1, 2004.

Due to the party's original purpose of pension equality, the party's electoral base is pensioners.

Due to Nawijn's controversial conservative positions such as his support of the death penalty, which horrified many people in the Netherlands, he was placed at the bottom of the LPF's electoral list.

Due to New York's electoral fusion rules, all candidates were allowed to run representing different parties.

Due to the growth of these corrupted semi-democracies, which Diamond calls electoral authoritarianism, there has been a worldwide fall in the confidence in democracy especially in developing countries.