Due to Anson's absence from the club after 22 years, local newspaper reporters started to refer to the Cubs as the " Orphans ".

Due to subterranean drainage, there may be very limited surface water, even in the absence of any rivers and lakes.

Due to its unique origins and the absence of a fixed recipe, minestrone varies widely across Italy depending on traditional cooking times, ingredients, and season.

Due to the absence of historical data, the timespan between the fourth century BC and the third century AD is known as the " Yerevan Dark Ages.

Due to the absence of extracellular matrix and basal lamina, the development potential of these animals, very successful in their ecological niche, was of course limited, which would explain the low rate of evolution, referred to as bradytely, of their phenotype, their outward form as adults.

Due to the gentle pressing of the grapes and absence of skin contact during fermentation, the dark-skinned varieties also yield a white wine.

Due to his father's absence, Larry was raised solely by his mother and maternal grandmother for the first three years of his life.

Due to his absence in other relevant mythological texts, numerous scholars have argued that Baugi either comes from a source that is not extant today or was an invention of Snorri's, accidental or intentional.

Due to several unique factors, most prominently that it has no inlets or tributaries, the waters of Crater Lake are some of the purest in terms of the absence of pollutants in North America.

Due to its strategic position on the rail line, the commercial center thrived in spite of the absence of a road.

Due to Williams ' tour schedules some of the shows were previously recorded to be played in his absence.

Due to the absence of appreciable rainfall, Egypt's agriculture depends entirely on irrigation.

Due to the extremely thin and light diaphragm membrane, often only a few micrometers thick, and the complete absence of moving metalwork, the frequency response of electrostatic headphones usually extends well above the audible limit of approximately 20 kHz.

Due to the absence of displacement limit regulations, manufacturers took increasing liberties with engine size.

Due to these concerns, the Government of India ruled that ayurvedic products must specify their metallic content directly on the labels of the product, but, writing on the subject for Current Science, a publication of the Indian Academy of Sciences, M. S. Valiathan noted that " the absence of post-market surveillance and the paucity of test laboratory facilities India make the quality control of Ayurvedic medicines exceedingly difficult at this time.

Due to the absence of a neutral spacing, double clutching is ill-advised for sequential gear changes, as in a fully sequential gearbox such as a typical motorcycle.

Due to the absence of the King and the economical independence of Brazil, Portugal entered a severe crisis that obliged João VI and the royal family to return to Portugal in 1821.

Due to the absence of Éamon de Valera and Arthur Griffith, Brugha presided over the first meeting of Dáil Éireann on 21 January 1919.

Due to the absence of bands in the RN since the 1950s, these are the only remaining military bands in its service rosters.

Due to Burnley's absence in top flight over the last three decades, Blackburn has also formed rivalries with other regional Premier League clubs, especially Bolton Wanderers, Manchester United and Manchester City, all located in the nearby Greater Manchester area.

Due to the absence of flux or a reducing atmosphere, the part cleanliness is critical when brazing in a vacuum.

Due to the absence of native mammals on these islands, some of the oceanic island taxa have reduced burrs, evolving features that seem to aid in dispersal by the wind instead.

Due to the prevailing absence of any real designs by Bentley, there was no real agreement as to how the mosaics should look, and in one instance, already installed mosaics ( those in the Sacred Heart shrine were removed after the death of the artist, George Bridge.

Due to the absence of a parish church, from its earliest days the Reading Room was also used for religious services and a Sunday School associated with St. Mary's Church, Chesham.

Due to the contemporary Brutalist architecture of the Burnaby Mountain campus, many buildings, including the WAC Bennet Library and Academic Quadrangle have been used for location shots in a variety of films and television programmes over the years.

Due process is not used in contemporary English law, though two similar concepts are natural justice ( which generally applies only to decisions of administrative agencies and some types of private bodies like trade unions ) and the British constitutional concept of the rule of law as articulated by A. V. Dicey and others.

Due to this, the nominally ministerial chiefly titles that still exist ( e. g.: the Yoruba Oloye ) are usually viewed as little more than the equivalents of the British knighthood, of little dynastic consequence except as a means of passively honouring the supporters of a monarch who is himself probably more contemporary in his styling.

Due to the lack of authoritative contemporary sources, estimates of the population of England for dates prior to the first census in 1801 vary considerably.

Due to their ability to replicate indefinitely, and their non-human number of chromosomes, HeLa was described by Leigh Van Valen as an example of the contemporary creation of a new species, Helacyton gartleri.

Due to the purchase of naming rights by the California Raisin Advisory Board, the California Bowl was sometimes referred to as the California Raisin Bowl in contemporary accounts.

Due to its obvious and inconvenient applicability to many types of music, use of " new music " as describing a specific type of contemporary composition has fallen off in recent years.

Due to environmental concerns, contemporary Joss paper burners have now been fitted with a special cover which eliminates the spread of burning ashes.

Due to the game being set in the future, Kojima's designs are notably more contemporary, utilizing modern clothing, in contrast to the medieval attire that characters from previous games wore.

Due to the high integration density of contemporary computer memory chips, the individual memory cell structures became small enough to be vulnerable to cosmic rays and / or alpha particle emission.

Due to their involvement in both Canned Carrott and the contemporary The Mary Whitehouse Experience, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis also got their own sketch show, called The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show, which ran for two series.

Due to this association, the contemporary meaning of the word has taken on this negative connotation.

Due to its purported cell-regenerative properties, it is believed as a contemporary legend that this fruit caused the mummification of people from the Colombian town of San Bernardo who extensively consumed it.

Due to the demise of sister station " 102. 9 Lite FM " on December 26, 2011, 104. 1 HD2 flipped to adult contemporary on that same day, as Lite FM flipped to country music.

Due to its arguably offensive character by contemporary standards, the name has fallen out of favor in cooking books, for example.

Due to the large territorial spread of the contemporary Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, the Mille Lacs Band's statutes divide its territory into three administrative districts and one special services district.

Due to the vaticinia ex eventu, most scholars date the work to the early 1st century AD, contemporary with the latest historical figures it describes.

Due to language barriers, Dzierzon was unaware of the achievements of his contemporary, L. L.

Due in part to the " get-acquainted-free offer " of commercial-free programming which Magic aired during its first two months of operation, the station quickly became the highest-rated adult contemporary station in Boston, reaching a 5. 3 share of 12 + ( according to Arbitron ) listeners within its first year.