Due to the expansive size of the environment, gameplay is focused more on long-range combat, and many gunfights take place at hundreds of metres.

Due to the crowded nature of Rome at the time, Octavius was taken to his father's home village at Velletri to be raised.

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

Due to acrylic's more flexible nature and more consistent drying time between colors, the painter does not have to follow the " fat over lean " rule of oil painting, where more medium must be applied to each layer to avoid cracking.

Due to the chronic nature of the treated disorders, antipsychotic medications, once started, are seldom discontinued, and the aim of the treatment is often to gradually reduce dosage to a minimum safe maintenance dose that is enough to control the symptoms.

Due to the extremely rugged, mountainous nature of Southeastern Alaska, almost all communities ( with the exception of Hyder, Skagway, and Haines ) have no road connections outside of their locale, so aircraft and boats are the major means of transport.

Due to the liturgical nature of the book of Habakkuk, there have been some scholars who think that the author may have been a temple prophet.

Due partly to the nature of the terrain and evolution in transportation systems, rail travel has suffered greatly at the hands of bus and air competition.

Due to the Machiavellian and competitive nature within both industries, a vast amount of aspiring entertainers and athletes in the world, even some of the most talented may never be recognized and won't ever receive the opportunity to carve a name for themselves.

Due to the smallness of Planck's constant it is practically impossible to realize experiments that directly reveal the wave nature of any system bigger than a few atoms but, in general, quantum mechanics considers all matter as possessing both particle and wave behaviors.

Due to the matter wave nature of electrons and their smaller mass, they occupy a much larger amount of volume compared with the nuclei, and this volume occupied by the electrons keeps the atomic nuclei relatively far apart, as compared with the size of the nuclei themselves.

Due to its somewhat concealed, but very potent nature, this hypothetical idea is described by some experts as " banal imperialism.

Due to the iterative / recursive nature of the technique, complex objects are particularly slow to emulate.

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

Due to the inherently deceptive nature of doublespeak as well as its prominent use in politics, doublespeak has been linked to the sociological perspective known as conflict theory.

Due to the highly networked nature of the IT industry, this quickly led to problems for small companies dependent on contracts from operators.

Due to the empirical nature of electronics theory, laboratory experimentation is an important part of the study of electronics.

Due to their rocky nature and long lives, obsidimen are rather slow moving and deliberate in both speech and action, and can have difficulty understanding the smaller races ' need for haste.

Due to Freenet's anonymous nature the original publishing node or owner of any piece of data is unknown.

Due to the specialized nature of the exposure and the higher degree of control afforded by the film lab equipment, these intermediate and release stocks are specially designed solely for these applications and are generally not feasible for camera shooting.

Due to their fleeting nature, they are difficult to find to photograph and the locations of these Frost Flowers are elusive as terrain plays a big part in their formation as well.

Due to Martinique ’ s inhospitable nature, the duo resolved to settle in Guadeloupe in 1635, took possession of the island, and wiped out many of the Carib Amerindians.

Due to a perceived lack of scientific rigour in and overly descriptive nature of the discipline, and a continued separation of geography from geology and the two subfields of physical and human geography, geographers in the mid-20th century began to apply statistical and mathematical model methods to solving spatial problems.

Due to the problematic and enigmatic nature of these attestations, scholars have produced various theories about the nature of the god, including his apparent relation to rams, that he may be a personification of or connected to the world tree Yggdrasil, and potential Indo-European cognates.

Due to the political nature of the Commentarii, Caesar's purpose in publicizing his own achievements may have distorted the significance of events and the motives of those who participated.

Due to the need for so many sailors to work onshore, Brueys had not deployed any of his lighter warships as scouts, which left him unable to swiftly react to the sudden appearance of the British.

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 its ambiguity, the letter was a cause of debate during the British and later American struggles over the abolition of slavery.

Due to issues with some of his children not being recognized as British citizens he abjured his allegiance to Britain, and became a naturalized American citizen.

Due to the British occupation in India, a lot of protest songs about anti-imperialism / pro-socialism have been written in India.

Due to the series ' popularity, people who constantly complain and are irritated by minor things are often compared to Victor Meldrew by the British media.

Due to the economics of television production in Canada, relatively few daily soap operas have been produced on English Canadian television, with most Canadian stations that do air soap operas airing American or British ones.

Due to largescale British migration to Perth, Western Australia, many British youths in that city joined skinhead / sharpies gangs in the late 1960s and developed their own Australian style.

Due to both states sharing the same religion, being former British colonies, and refusing to recognize Israel as a legitimate nation, Pakistan and Sudan have shared generally close and warm relations for decades.

Due to the increased threat of Japanese and Chinese expansion during this period, British Indian troops secured the town as part of the defence of India's eastern border.

Due to his actions as Chancellor, Gladstone earned the reputation as the liberator of British trade and the working man's breakfast table, the man responsible for the emancipation of the popular press from " taxes upon knowledge " and for placing a duty on the succession of the estates of the rich.

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 the islands ' isolation, for many years Bermuda remained an outpost of 17th-century British civilization, with an economy based on the use of the islands ' Bermuda cedar ( Juniperus bermudiana ) trees for shipbuilding, and Bermudians ' control of the Turks Islands, and their salt trade.

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 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 economic blockade enforced by Napoleon, the economy of the Kingdom of Holland was further ruined ; the smuggling of British goods increased.

Due in large part to unfavourable UK tax laws for inward investment in the UK film industry, the 1990 ′ s were precarious and witnessed an all-time low in British film production generally, but many large-scale productions such as Tim Burton ’ s Batman Returns and three further Bond films ( GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies & The World Is Not Enough ) kept Pinewood ticking over.

Due to health concerns over the quality of the meat contained in many commercially produced sausages ( heightened by the BSE crisis in the 1990s ) there has been a marked improvement in the quality of meat content in commonly available British sausages with a return to the artisanal production of high quality traditional recipes, which had previously been in decline.

Due to First World War losses, Cunard began a post-war rebuilding programme included eleven intermediate liners ; Southampton replaced Liverpool as the British destination for the three-ship express service ; and Cunard acquired the former Hapag Imperator ( renamed the Berengaria ) to replace the lost Lusitania as the running mate for Mauretania and Aquitania.

Due to the size of the canal network controlled, half of the United Kingdom population lives within five miles of a canal or river once managed by British Waterways.

Due to their well-published activity in Bordentown, the British retaliated.