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 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.