Due to globalization, they are becoming increasingly important, resulting in expansion projects such as the Panama Canal expansion project.

Due to increasingly widespread knowledge of the experiment, recent replications of Milgram's procedure had to ensure that the participants were not previously aware of it.

* Stricter design rules – Due to lithography and etch issues with scaling, design rules for layout have become increasingly stringent.

Due to the increased implementation of slave codes, which created differential treatment between Africans and the white workers and ruling planter class, the island became increasingly unattractive to poor whites.

Due to various changes in the ecosystem, some that are human-induced, efforts have been made to provide enhanced protection to some species of native fish and the increasingly threatened Whitebark Pine.

Due to their innate gentle disposition and intelligence, Texas Longhorns are increasingly being trained as riding steers.

Due to increasingly slack religious practice in Lindisfarne, Cuthbert was sent to Lindisfarne as a way to reform the religious community.

Due to growth in the Boise metropolitan area, Eagle has become increasingly suburban in recent years.

Due to the influx of tourists and greater contact with the mainland in recent years, however, the Ocracoke brogue has been increasingly influenced by outside dialects.

Due to its strong character, nearby recreational opportunities and development properties, Roslyn is increasingly a desirable destination.

Due to the Elven-based Norwegian presence in the seas around the south of Sweden and into the Baltic Sea, Norway increasingly relied on Baltic grain from Lübeck.

Due to the increasingly consensus-based decision making process of the Chinese leadership, there is debate on how much power Hu held personally to effect change.

Due to exceptional overcrowding, workhouses in Ireland stopped admissions during the Irish Potato famine and increasingly resorted to outdoor relief.

Due to Neill's work on Billy Whizz and Tim Traveller, the strip appeared on an increasingly irregular basis in the late 1990s, and after Neill's death in 2000, it disappeared from The Beano.

Due to the success of Metal Gear Solid, and to an extent Tenchu and Thief, stealth elements have become increasingly incorporated by a wide range of video games, with numerous action games since then using stealth elements in some way or another.

Due to its strategic location in one of the most populous areas in the world ( nearly 100 million people in Henan alone ) and in China's railway, road and aviation transport networks, Zhengzhou is increasingly attracting domestic and international investment as well as migrants from other areas, transforming the city into one of the largest economic centers in China.

Due to these increasingly frequent visits, new laws address the safety of boaters, commercial fishermen, and the whales themselves: off the coast of Boston, for example, cargo vessels must slow down to protect the much slower North Atlantic Right Whale and there is talk of erecting an apparatus for the much more heavily trafficked waters surrounding New York that can warn boats of a whale's presence and location so as to avoid accidentally striking the animal.

Due to his knowledge of economics, Cullen became increasingly involved in the disputes surrounding the Minister of Finance, Roger Douglas, who supported the liberalisation of trade and the sale of state assets plus deep tax cuts.

Due to increasingly common arguments, Pierce dismissed Graham and Dotson around this time.

His strong personality along with beliefs such as " second-degree separation ," which defines that Christians should not only be separated from " the world " and theological liberals, but also theological conservatives who cooperated with them, brought strife and, " Due to his insistence on issues such as this, his colleagues at the Grace Seminary found it increasingly difficult to work with him.

Due to its warm water and salty lakes it became increasingly popular during the next centuries.

Due to management and the unions ' ongoing battle over labor contracts, service at the airline declined resulting in a series of increasingly contentious and politically charged events.

Due to increasingly strained relations between the federal and state governments, and a dispute over the special rights of Malays, Singapore separated from the Federation in 1965.

Due to the push for System-on-a-chip ( SoC ) processors, modern devices increasingly have the northbridge integrated into the CPU die itself ; examples are Intel's Sandy Bridge and AMD's Fusion processors ( both released in 2011 ).

Due to the stuffy atmosphere and vapors in the dark and cramped hold, Pym becomes increasingly comatose and delirious over the days.

Due to California's term limits, Saldaña's assembly career ended on August 31, 2010 in an acrimonious late-night session as she pushed legislation banning the open carry of firearms known as AB 1934.

Due to the situation in Iberia, Martel believed he needed a virtually full-time army — one he could train intensely — as a core of veteran Franks who would be augmented with the usual conscripts called up in time of war.

Due to the troubled political situation in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s.

Due to the difficult external and internal situation he faced, Maximilian also felt it necessary to introduce reforms in the historic territories of the House of Habsburg in order to finance his army.

Due to lack of a clear historical precedent in Scotland's history as a fully separate country before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, there was only one occasion when a similar situation arose, i. e. on the death of the monarch the heir was outside the country and not available to be crowned more or less immediately.

Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they were trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California.

Due to the distributed nature of virtual teams, team members have less awareness of the wider situation of the team or dynamics of the overall team environment.

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

Due to Fermilab's financial situation, on December 20, 2007, director Piermaria Oddone announced the planned layoffs of 10 % of Fermilab's staff.

Due to the vulnerable situation, the rule of the republic went to the hands of the Visconti family of Milan.

Due to Constantine IV's victories, the situation in the Eastern provinces of the Empire was stable when Justinian ascended the throne.

Due to lack of police evidence or documentation, the scheme was not successful and McCorvey would later admit the situation was a fabrication.

Due to some of the circumstances of the prosecution and the underlying situation at the hospital, a special prosecutor with the Texas Attorney General's office became involved after the criminal prosecution against the two nurses ended.

Due to this unusual situation, the dioceses of these parts of Galicia do not match any longer with the administrative divisions.

Due to the severe war situation for Germany all of those systems were only produced in small numbers and most of them were only used by training or trial units.

Due to Soviet persecution and the declining economic situation, Zionist leaders focused on increasing aliyah efforts.

Due to his participation in the situation that led to the tragic death, Ior got a probation of four months, on the grounds of " participation in acts that led to involuntary manslaughter ".

Due to Camberley's inconvenient situation between the South Western Main Line and the Waterloo to Reading Line, and capacity and stock constraints on the latter mainline, direct services to and from London Waterloo only run at peak hours, running via Ascot and Richmond.

Due to this situation Afonso I had to search for allies within the Iberian Peninsula.

Due to the security situation in Israel, the return match was not held in Ramat Gan but in Kiev, Ukraine, at the Valery Lobanovsky stadium, with 1, 700 spectators.

Due to the severe weather conditions forecast for Hong Kong, the flight crew had prepared to divert the flight to Taipei if the situation at Hong Kong was deemed unsuitable for landing.

Due to its situation inside Mirkwood and east of Lórien, Dol Guldur was a key stronghold in Sauron's return to power.

Due to the boycott of elections by Iraqi Sunnis, al-Yawar stood by his conviction that the new constitution should not be written in light of the past elections that created a unique situation – a complete sector of the Iraqi people were unable to partake in them.

Due to financial situation, the family lived in a field tent on a farm where Klose's father worked for a couple of years until moving to a small Cambridgeshire village.

Due to the geographical situation, the same distance is equivalent to several miles of zigzagging roads if travelling by car.

Due to the deterioration of the political situation, he refused to continue negotiations with the Palestinian Authority at the Taba Summit, or under any aspect of the Oslo Accords.