Due to the large percussion section utilized in the Broadway musical West Side Story, composer Leonard Bernstein chose to utilize a string section without violas.

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 potentially large differences in value over slight differences in a coin's condition, some commercial coin dealers will repeatedly resubmit a coin to a grading service in the hope of a higher grade.

Due to the large number of calculations, a work in progress is usually only rendered in detail appropriate to the portion of the work being developed at a given time, so in the initial stages of modeling, wireframe and ray casting may be used, even where the target output is ray tracing with radiosity.

Due to their large size, lanthanides, actinides, and early transition metals tend to have high coordination numbers.

Due to the large caloric intake these athletes must consume it can be particularly tricky to ensure they obtain the nutrition required to maintain muscle mass.

Due to its widespread distribution, Doom hence became the game that introduced deathmatching to a large audience ( and was also the first game to use the term " deathmatch ").

Due to its expense, D-1 was used primarily by large television networks.

Due to the success of the James Bond film series the Italian film industry made large amounts of imitations and spoofs in the Eurospy genre from 1964-1967.

Due to its large size, the Golgi apparatus was one of the first organelles to be discovered and observed in detail.

Due to the large quantities of English loanwords, modern Japanese has developed a distinction between and, and and ; with the latter in each pair only found in loanwords.

Due to large family groups, almost all Kuwaitis at the time lost some family member.

Due to many people missing, she collected a large sum of money in her boat.

Due to the large number of stories, it is particularly difficult for a completionist fan to read every story in the series.

Due to the Sicilian influence on Siculo-Arabic, Maltese has many language contact features and is most commonly described as a language with a large number of loanwords.

Due to its usefulness, ping has been implemented on a large number of operating systems, initially BSD Unix, but later others including Windows and Mac OS X.

Due to large number of defectors, the Afghan armed forces in 1985 was reduced to around 47, 000.

Due to the extremely large value of the speed of light, c, a small decrease in mass is associated with a tremendous release of active energy ( for example, the kinetic energy of the fission fragments ).

Due to its proximity to the expanding University of Plymouth and the city centre, large numbers of students now live in the area.

Due to the 1973 National Archives Fire, a large number of retroactive Purple Heart requests are difficult to verify since all records to substantiate the award may very well have been destroyed.

Due to the rotary engine's large rotational inertia, it was possible to adjust the appropriate fuel / air mixture by trial and error without stalling it, although this varied between different types of engine, and in any case it required a good deal of practice to acquire the necessary " knack ".

Due to regular exposure to large bodies of water, all recruits in the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard are required to complete basic swimming or water survival training.

Due to Muslim successes in the Holy Land, the Order sought new missions in Europe.

Due to the high diversity of the global Muslim community ( ummah ), the typical suhoor or iftaar meals vary.

Due to Muhammad's sanction or tacit approval of such practices, these customs are considered to be Sunnah ( practices of Muhammad as part of the religion ) by the Ummah ( Muslim nation ).

Due to its cultural and geographical history, the site holds a prominent religious significance to those of both the Christian and Muslim faiths.

Due to security concerns, Israel restricts access of Palestinian residents of the West Bank to Jerusalem on Muslim holidays only with an age restriction on West Bank Palestinian men over 35 being elligble for a permit.

Due to the cultural impact of Arab civilization, and especially through the spread of Islam, the word has gained currency as a religious term or general honorific in many other parts of the world as well, notably in Muslim cultures in Africa and Asia.

Due to differences in culture between Muslim groups, participation in musical performance is condoned in some and considered questionable in others.

Due to the large Muslim population the number of pigs is relatively low but there are many sheep which are traditional for the Rhodopes.

Due to a very large Muslim community, East Ham also has many mosques ( masjids ).

Due to that effort, when World War II ended, academician Šercer was sentenced by the newly created government of Yugoslavia to one year of forced labor and the confiscation of the property, found guilty of supporting the NDH, despite the fact that two lecturers at the institution were Serbs, and one of them Muslim ( Muhamed Kontardžić ), with the student national structure at the school balanced.

Due to the Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula from the 8th to 15th centuries, a period of over 800 years, a similar derivation from Arabic occurred: the Spanish phrase, ojalá, and the Portuguese phrase, oxalá.

Due to their access to the Indus-Ganges plains the Ghaznavids, during the 11th and 12th centuries, developed the first Muslim army to use war elephants in battle.

Due to the presence of a considerable population of Hindusthani-speakers, especially, the Gujarathis, Marwaris and some Muslim communities, some Hindi words, too, became a part of Madras Bashai.

Due to the multitude of different ethnic and religious identities of the Muslim Bulgarians, it is extremely difficult to calculate the exact number of the members of the community in Bulgaria.

Due to a deep distrust of the Republican leadership, being predominantly Javanese Muslim, this was an extremely difficult choice for the Protestant Ambonese and only a minority chose to serve with the Indonesian Army.

Due to the rise of the Muslim League's campaign for a separate Muslim state of Pakistan and growing acrimony between Hindus and Muslims, the Mahasabha increasingly became home to radical Hindu activists.

Due to the overwhelming Christian influence, marriage to Muslim spouses, which results in a mandatory conversion to Islam, still induces outrage and rejection, and is known to divide fiercely traditional Kadazans.

Due to the Meccan oppression of early Muslim converts, a small group of Muslims ( said to be just 11 men and 4 women ) chose to migrate to Abyssinia in 613 AD.

Due to Islamic Sharia dietary requirements, Muslim students have separate tables in the dining hall.

Due to the dismissal of Khalid from the army and a famine and plague the next year, the Muslim armies were kept from invading Anatolia.