Due to its distance from the sea and its largely desert climate, the country is sometimes referred to as the " Dead Heart of Africa ".

Due to the potential snap available with this technique, one can expect greater distance and accuracy than with its counterpart.

Due to the distance of trade for this steel, a sufficiently lengthy disruption of the trade routes could have ended the production of Damascus steel and eventually led to the loss of the technique in India.

Due to technical difficulties, including a software crash shortly before approach, the craft instead passed Braille at a distance of.

Due to its small size and its distance from the plane of the Milky Way, Equuleus contains no notable deep sky objects.

Due to its vertical climb, the same distance is equivalent to several miles of zigzagging roads if travelled by car.

Due to the short distance between the lever arm link boss and the pivot pin and the difference between the effective radius of the sector gear and that of the spur gear, any motion of the Bourdon tube is greatly amplified.

Due to problems with local political parties in his country, President Daud Khan decided to distance himself from the Soviets in 1976.

Due to the great distance from Federation space, the Delta Quadrant is unexplored and Voyager truly is going where no man has gone before.

Due to the short driving distance and direct highway route ( 170 miles, all on Interstate 8 ), Yuma was very popular with Padres fans, and many fans would travel by car from San Diego for Spring Training games.

Due to constraints in the length of the projectile / missile, the built-in stand-off on many warheads is not the optimum distance.

Due to conservation of energy, the same amount of mechanical energy ( work ) is required to lift a given object by a given vertical distance, disregarding losses from friction, but the inclined plane allows the same work to be done with a smaller force exerted over a greater distance.

Due to the Hamming distance properties of Gray codes, they are sometimes used in genetic algorithms.

Due to its great distance from the ocean it is extremely arid and possesses no river outlet.

Due to its distance from the frontline the department is spared the destruction of World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ).

Due to Mesa's extremely long east to west travel distance, in excess of and large land area, locations in Mesa are often referred to as residing within either East Mesa or West Mesa.

Due to its elevation and distance from the Chesapeake Bay, temperatures in Westminster are often considerably lower than in Baltimore.

Due to their " difficulties and inconveniences by reason of their distance from the places of Public Worship in their respective Towns ," local inhabitants petitioned the General Court to be set apart as a separate town.

Due to its location in the Great Plains and its distance from both mountains and oceans, the city has an extreme continental climate.

Due to its location in the Central Plains and its distance from both mountains and oceans, the city has an extreme continental climate.

Due to its distance from both St. Paul and Minneapolis, in 1891, the college board approved and funded an electric trolley line through the middle of campus, which is now Grand Avenue.

Due to the large distance to the densely populated parts of Europe, this is one of the least polluted areas in Europe.

Due to the long distance to the more densely populated areas of the continent, this is one of the least polluted areas of Europe.

Due to his western successes, Ulysses S. Grant was given command of all Union armies in 1864, and organized the armies of William Tecumseh Sherman, George Meade and others to attack the Confederacy from all directions, increasing the North's advantage in manpower.

Due to the low level of investment in cross-border railway projects, the city has preserved a slot within the Thalys high-speed train network which uses existing tracks on its last 70 km from Belgium to Cologne.

Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.

Due to the nature of the aggression from the machines, Zion is an example of a heavily fortified hyperstructure.

Due to the rich mining history dating from medieval times ( the Black Forest was one of the most important mining regions of Europe circa 1100 ) there are many mines re-opened to the public.

Due to the long radio aerials stretching from the wireless room, the radio station was moved from Bletchley Park to nearby Whaddon Hall to avoid drawing attention to the site.

Due to the costs involved in owning, operating and driving buses and coaches, many bus and coach uses a private hire of vehicles from charter bus companies, either for a day or two, or a longer contract basis, where the charter company provides the vehicles and qualified drivers.

Due to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, Bealltainn in Scotland was commonly celebrated on 15 May while in Ireland " Old Beltane " or " Old May " began about the night of 11 May.

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 adverse effects associated with the long-term use of benzodiazepines, withdrawal from benzodiazepines, in general, leads to improved physical and mental health.

Due to its proximity to the Sahara, most of the Cape Verde islands are dry, but on islands with high mountains and farther away from the coast, by orography, the humidity is much higher, giving a rainforest habitat, very degraded by the strong human presence.

Due to failure to curb deepening unrest in the northern part of the country, Gambi was in July 2006 replaced with Bozizé ’ s old friend from the military academy, Jules Bernard Ouandé.

Due to problems with Pinochet, Leigh was expelled from the junta in 1978 and replaced by General Fernando Matthei.

Due to the wholesale destruction of plants at the K – T boundary there was a proliferation of saprotrophic organisms such as fungi that do not require photosynthesis and use nutrients from decaying vegetation.

Due to the small number of keys required, chording is easily adapted from a desktop to mobile environment.

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 engine knocking ( detonation ), the compression ratio in a gasoline or petrol-powered engine will usually not be much higher than 10: 1, although some production automotive engines built for high-performance from 1955 – 1972 had compression ratios as high as 13. 0: 1, which could run safely on the high-octane leaded gasoline then available.

Due to the sheer physical difficulties inherent in cartography, map-makers frequently lifted material from earlier works without giving credit to the original cartographer.

Due to politically charged differences in the 4th century, schisms developed, and the first denominations ( from the Latin, " to take a new name ") formed.

Due to his two periods of exile in 1904 – 1909, to escape the British invasion of 1904, and from 1910 – 1912 to escape a Chinese invasion, he became well aware of the complexities of international politics and was the first Dalai Lama to become aware of the importance of foreign relations.

Due to his disobedience regarding the commanded punishment of the Amalekites ( the sworn enemies of Israel ), God dethroned Saul from kingship and vowed that the crown would be given to one that he had chosen.