Due to heavy rainfalls some of the ghetto neighborhoods built at the edge of steep valleys are frequently washed away and buried under mudslides, as in October 2005.

Due to heavy Italian influence during the Italian colonial period, Italian is still widely understood in the countries of Libya and Eritrea.

Due to the massive quantity of Stooge product available for broadcast, the films were broadcast Monday through Friday, leading to heavy exposure aimed squarely at children.

Due to economic reforms, there has been a shift away from heavy industry, and towards small businesses.

Due to the dangerous and expensive nature of training on heavy equipment, simulation has become a common solution across many industries.

Due to controversies and arguments over the band being heavy metal or not than just with nu metal being heavy metal or not, lead singer Jonathan Davis commented, " I remember when were coming out we were fighting being called a metal band because we weren't a metal band, we were something that wasn't classifiable ," Davis says.

Due to the shift in the Big Three's strategy, many long-running cars like the Ford Taurus, Buick Century and Pontiac Grand Prix fell behind their Japanese competitors in features and image ( relying more on fleet sales instead of retail and / or heavy incentive discounts ); some were discontinued.

Due to its heavy load of silt the Yellow River is a depositing streamthat is, it deposits part of its carried burden of soil in its bed in stretches where it is flowing slowly.

Due to its heavy investment in nuclear power, France is the smallest emitter of carbon dioxide among the seven most industrialized countries in the world .< ref >

Due to heavy road traffic on the aging, one-lane bridge, construction on a new steel and concrete bridge to bypass the covered bridge occurred in the summer of 2006.

Due to 2010 forest and peat fires the Russian government is under heavy pressure to finance re-flooding of the previously drained bogs around Moscow.

Due to the area's vacationers, many of which come from New York and Northern New Jersey, Route 37 is routinely congested with seasonal traffic in the summer, especially on and around the Mathis and Tunney Bridges and at the Garden State Parkway interchange as heavy tourist traffic converges on the shore.

Due to its proximity to the Pacific Ocean, heavy fogs and low overcasts are common throughout the year, sometimes producing light drizzle.

Due to heavy congestion on the ramp to Route 32 west, the Turnpike Authority replaced it with a new two lane ramp that goes from the toll gate to the intersection of CR 535 and Thatcher Road.

Due to heavy immigration, the population of English-speaking residents of Canada West soon outstripped Canada East.

Due to heavy fighting near Winsen and Walle the British were unable to reach Bergen-Belsen on April 14, as originally planned.

Due to 4Kids ' heavy editing of their properties and refusal to release untouched versions on DVD, some fansubbing groups continue to subtitle and release popular shows owned by the company such as Tokyo Mew Mew, One Piece, and Yu-Gi-Oh !.

Due to their sound and image, they are often associated with the grunge movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s, though they were initially a heavy metal act.

Due to his heavy drinking, he's often late or even absent for performances with his quintet.

Due to its density, cricket bails, particularly " heavy bails " used in windy conditions, are sometimes made of lignum vitae.

Due to the size of its heavy turret and gun, the KV-2 was slower and had a much higher profile than the KV-1.

Due largely to munitions factories located in Nuneaton, the town suffered heavy bombing damage during World War II.

Due to this lineage, Bill Monroe is frequently referred to as the " father of bluegrass ", although his style drew upon the country, gospel, and blues music with which he had grown up.

) Due to his early death, just before the 1960s " blues boom ", and the silence of other famous blues performers, the then current music writers only being interested in ' the stars ' not caring to interview his ex-band members, immediate family, children, friends et al., little is known about him.

Due in part to their roots as smalltime bar bands, many of the Palm Desert bands have strong blues elements in their music as well.

Due to increasing similarities between country music and some variants of rock music ( such as southern rock, country rock and heartland rock ), there have been efforts at combining country and rock formats together, most of which have been unsuccessful.

Due to radar misidentification of a rock or highly reflective surface, the thrusters fired an extra time 0. 4 second before landing, cracking the surface and raising dust.

Due to lack of airplay on MTV and modern rock radio, the album only sold 200, 000 to 250, 000 copies in its first year of release.

Due to the temperature and pressure conditions in the asthenosphere, rock becomes ductile, moving at rates of deformation measured in cm / yr over lineal distances eventually measuring thousands of kilometers.

Due to this success and their first album to blur the sounds of soul music and rock music as well as the burgeoning funk genre, this led to the group becoming a sextet.

Due in part to the tourist industry but mainly to the Ridunians ' traditional taste for the grape and grain ( there is a common expression elsewhere in the Channel Islands that Alderney is composed of ' two thousand alcoholics, clinging to a rock ') there are many restaurants and public houses.

Due to this promotional increase, " Between You and Me " became a huge hit for the band, even managing to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, a hard feat for a Christian rock band at the time.

Due to the frequent occurrence of marine coralline algea in the Wetterstein limestone it can be deduced that this rock was at one time formed in a lagoon.

Due to its lengthy atmospheric instrumental passages, the album has been cited as the band's foray into progressive rock.

Due to hip hop's popularity rock experienced a diminished presence on mainstream music charts, especially by the beginning of the following decade, though the genre still sells well.

Due to the unpopularity of punk rock in the St. Louis area, The Primitives began to play blues-oriented garage rock at fast tempos.

Due to the influence of the album and periodical, the term " No Depression " became a byword for alternative country — particularly for bands with punk rock influence.

Due to improper sealing of the shaft, radioactive rock and dust were released into the atmosphere.

Due to the band having so many members that crosses different genre, LMF's music can be best described as a diverse and coherent mix of hip hop, rock, and thrash metal, with occasional funk or even reggae thrown in.

Due to the rapid pace of the events, and without time for the new Constitution to be passed by the Cortes, Pi i Margall found himself between a rock and the proverbial hard place of the cantonal revolution.

Due to the Arctic's permafrost soil and the difficulty it always poses for digging dens, arctic wolves often use rock outcroppings, caves or even shallow depressions as dens instead.

Due to the popularity of his styles, he was described as " a rock star, an artist, a craftsman who ' changed the world with a pair of scissors.

Due to its picturesque setting between the mountains and lakes of the Saale Valley, there is a wealth of outdoor options including hiking, skiing, fishing, hunting, rock climbing, sailing and many other sports.