Due to its proximity to the Sahara, most of the Cape Verde islands are dry, but on islands with high mountains and farther away from the coast, by orography, the humidity is much higher, giving a rainforest habitat, very degraded by the strong human presence.

Due to high domestic demand and a strong tea culture, most Taiwanese tea is bought and consumed by the Taiwanese.

Due to strong penetration of the Slovak market by mobile phones, the fixed lines sector has decreased dramatically in recent years.

Due to its strong capabilities in OEM wafer manufacturing and a complete industry supply chain, Taiwan has been able to distinguish itself from its competitors.

Due to the primarily amorphous fibrous and nonfibrous proteins in lamina propria ( LPs ), the basement membrane applies strong anchoring filaments like collagenⅣ and Ⅶ to secure the hemidesmosome of basal cell to LPs.

Due to the large mass of a boson, weak decay is much more unlikely than strong or electromagnetic decay, and hence occurs less rapidly.

Due to the show's strong themes of female empowerment, the most powerful members of the team are often female ( Buffy and Willow ), while the men play passive roles such as that of father-figure ( Giles ) and supportive best friend ( Xander ).

: Due to the strong coupling between components in complex systems, a failure in one or more components can lead to cascading failures which may have catastrophic consequences on the functioning of the system.

Due to the lack of an agreed definition and the strong negative associations, the characterization of any period as a " depression " is contentious.

Due to its large membership, varying and strong beliefs, and occasionally speculative nature, the environmental movement is not always united in its goals.

Due to the lack of solar heating and very strong radiative cooling from carbon dioxide, the mesopause is the coldest place on Earth with temperatures as low as-100 ° C (- 146 ° F or 173 K ).

Due to Sigismund's strong support of the Counter Reformation, his support back in largely Protestant Sweden eroded quickly.

Due to the strong forces of erosion at work on Earth, only relatively recent examples of these smaller impacts are known.

Due to the lack of strong resistance, two Australian Army divisions succeeded in occupying eastern Indonesia.

Due to his success in the American Chess Congress, many people in America felt confident they had a player strong enough to challenge the best players abroad and that he should be supported by the American Chess Association to make those challenges.

Due to remoteness from the rest of Maine and a perceived lack of connection with Maine government, as well as a strong connection with neighboring Canada, politicians of Aroostook County, Maine, have proposed making Aroostook part of New Brunswick or spinning off the county as its own state, probably named Aroostook, since the 1990s.

Due to Callimachus ' strong stance against the epic, he and his younger student Apollonius of Rhodes, who favored epic and wrote the Argonautica, had a long and bitter feud, trading barbed comments, insults, and ad hominem attacks for over thirty years.

Due to this strong missionary thrust, a large number of Capuchins have suffered martyrdom over the centuries.

Due to the growth spurt of commercial businesses, Fultondale is also experiencing strong growth in new residential development throughout the city.

Due to excellent agreement between the mass measured by CDF and the theoretical expectation, it is a strong indication that the particle discovered by CDF is indeed the.

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

Due to the strong gliding conditions and spectacular scenery in the Omarama area, as well as the entire Mackenzie Basin, it is known as a world-class gliding location, gaining fame among sailplane pilots around the world after hosting the 1995 World Gliding Championships.

Due to the lack of succession law and a strong concept of meritocracy, whenever the succession was in dispute, princely governors or powerful dignitaries claiming their merit gathered their forces and moved on the capital to press their claims, culminating in several bloody coups.

Due to its location next to the bay, strong winds often swirl down into the stadium, creating unusual playing conditions.

Due to the lack of central control over the hardware, there is no way to guarantee that nodes will not drop out of the network at random times.

Due to his commitment to The Last Crusade, the director had to drop out of directing Big and Rain Man.

Due to the bad press, the turkey drop ceased for a few years.

Due to frequent low humidity, summer temperatures normally drop into the fifties at night.

Due to the reversibility of orbits, Hohmann transfer orbits also work to bring a spacecraft from a higher orbit into a lower one ; in this case, the spacecraft's engine is fired in the opposite direction to its current path, decelerating the spacecraft and causing it to drop into the lower-energy elliptical transfer orbit.

Due to a lack of space, the university had to drop all faculties except for theology and philosophy.

Due to the unfortunate nature of Wifi when several stations are all trying to access a single access point at once, once the load is past roughly 95 % channel load, the throughput starts to drop dramatically.

Due to the expanding Tablet PC market, the world's biggest maker of computer mice confirmed a significant drop in Q3 2011 operating Income to $ 23 million from $ 51 million a year ago.

In recognizing Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai's mark of 2: 03: 02 at the 2011 Boston Marathon as " the fastest Marathon ever run ", the IAAF has noted: " Due to the elevation drop and point-to-point measurements of the Boston course, performances that course are not eligible for World record consideration.

Due to its displacement, one door now hangs precariously above a drop, the ground on what was once Hillhead Street having been radically excavated during the construction.

Due to its desert surroundings, the river is characterized by erratic flows and flash floods that reach high peaks and drop off just as quickly.

Due to these screening charges, there is a voltage drop across the ferroelectric capacitor with screening in the electrode layer that can be obtained using the Thomas-Fermi approach as follows:

Due to its similarity to standard tuning, drop D is recognised as a useful introduction to alternative tunings, leading logically to an exploration of DADGAD, open D and drop D drop G ( in which both the 5th and 6th strings are dropped a tone ) tunings.

Due to marketing reasons, Ford decided to drop the Probe name and bring back the Cougar name for the redesigned car.

Due to the drop from Northern Ireland's top domestic football league, the IFA Premiership, Portadown were forced to take on intermediate status, due to the IFA Championship, which is Northern Ireland's second tier of football, being an intermediate league.

Due to the skill level of the then footvolley athletes ( nearly all were professional football players ); the ball would rarely drop.

Due to easier accessibility ( once it became a peninsula ), good highway and railway connections with the Armenian capital Yerevan, a well-developed tourist industry in the nearby town of Sevan, and its picturesque location ( although less picturesque than it was before the lake level drop ), Sevanavank is one of the most visited tourism sights in Armenia.

Due to the financial crisis in the late 2000s, there was a drop in global demand for freight.

Due to Li ' l Lobo's ability to replicate clones of himself for every drop of his blood spilled, the team is aided by an army of Lobo clones who are unleashed on the Apokoliptian forces, as they lash out against everyone and everything around them before turning on each other and killing one another off to the last surviving Lobo.

Due to Kazuki's kindness, his spell count begins to drop as he uses his magic on behalf of each girl.

Due to thermodynamic processes, as the dry mid-level air is slowly saturated its temperature begins to drop, increasing the adiabatic lapse rate.

Due to these changes, leaders in Mattoon decided to drop out of the FutureGen project.