Due to the firm's commercial success many pirated editions were also produced in Lyons and elsewhere.

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 this film's great box office success, Toho announced plans to do a sequel almost immediately.

Due to the success of ISDN, the number of installed analog lines is decreasing.

Due to his success and character variety, some critics have called him a " virtuoso " actor.

Due to the success of the introduction, Hormel Foods also introduced school " color-themed " spam.

Due to the enormous European success of Up!

Due to the huge success of Space Invaders, Taito opened in 1979 an American division called Taito America Corporation in order to release games in North America.

Due to the success of many Jurassic Park-related products, Velociraptor has become a ubiquitous representation of dinosaurs in popular culture.

Due to its success, the movie industry converted entirely to sound almost overnight.

* Due to the major success of broadband Internet connections, Voice over IP begins to gain popularity as a replacement for traditional telephone lines.

Due to the success of this special edition, Peugeot later created Roland Garros editions of its 106, 206, 207, 306 and 806 models.

Due to the success of Council-directed research in producing a sound-based method of detecting submarines, as well as other military innovations, the NRC was retained at the end of the war, though it was gradually decoupled from the military.

Due to the high sales for Kurt Cobain's Journals and the band's best-of compilation Nirvana upon their releases in 2002, The New York Times argued Nirvana " are having more success now than at any point since Mr. Cobain's suicide in 1994.

Due to the success of " Pardon Me ", Make Yourself reached Gold certification ( 500, 000 copies sold ) in April 2000.

Due to the late start and extensive delays releasing the second-generation MC88110, the m88k achieved very limited success outside of the MVME platform and embedded controller environments.

Due to its success, Huysmans retired from his civil service job and lived on his royalties.

Due to the success of the exhibit, NHL and CNE decided that a permanent home in the Exhibition Place was needed.

Due to the success of the pilot run, the team went on to produce approximately 2000 units over the next ten years.

Due to critical acclaim and commercial success ( at the time of its conclusion, it was DC ’ s best-selling series ), The Sandman spawned a number of spin-off volumes.

Due largely to the success of the Mario franchise, Bowser has become one of the most iconic and easily recognizable video game antagonists of all time.

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 the success of the first Invasion, another science fiction themed event took place in Holt on 30 June 2007.

Due to a variety of adversities, their pioneering efforts were not the great success for which they had hoped.

Due to air quality and noise concerns, the City of Duarte has sought repeatedly to halt expansion of neighboring quarry operations, but has had no success against the monied interests behind the quarries and the neighboring city governments beholden to them.

Due to high urban density, there are not many filling stations ; Petrol in Hong Kong averages around US $ 2. 04 per litre, of which over half the cost is taxes.

Due to discontent towards the proposal of political reform made by the Hong Kong government, the Civic Party and the League of Social Democrats joined together to carry out " Five Constituencies Referendum " in early 2010, by having one Legislative Councillors ( from either one of the parties ) in each constituency resigned, forcing the government to carry out a by-election, thus giving a chance for all voters to show their will towards universal suffrage and the abolishment of functional constituencies. Quite often, it is refereed as " De facto referendum ".

Due to their status as colonies of foreign states during the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the phrase " mainland China " excludes Hong Kong and Macau.

Due to frequent rain and other difficulties in Hong Kong, the filming was nearly abandoned.

Due to integration with the Japanese export market, NTSC laserdiscs were used in the Hong Kong market, in contrast to the PAL standard used for broadcast ( This anomaly also exists for DVD ).

Due to high labour cost and limited space, vending machines have been introduced to Hong Kong.

Due to the growth of the economy and business sectors, the water, waste and air pollution cause an adverse effect on the balance of ecology in Hong Kong.

Due to dense population and government control of land use, the most common form of residential housing in Hong Kong is the high-rise housing estate, which may be publicly owned, privately owned, or semi-private.

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 a typhoon, Wang finally landed in Hong Kong for the first time, though he was confined to the airport's restricted zone as he had no Hong Kong visa.

Due to a lack of interest, Blythe dolls were only sold for one year in the U. S. ( produced in Hong Kong ) and also in Australia, during 1972.

Due to the large ethnic Chinese presence in Vancouver — especially represented by multi-generation Chinese Canadians and first-generation immigrants from Hong Kong — the city has been referred to as " Hongcouver " ( a term considered derogatory by some Chinese ).

Due to the inherent differences between standard written Chinese and written Cantonese, the Hong Kong Government recognized the need for a standardized set of proprietary characters that would allow for the streamlining of electronic communication ; at the time, the Big5 Chinese encoding scheme did not contain a vast majority of these characters ( some were erroneously cross-listed with similar characters ).

Due to the overwhelming positive response to the new album from both the public and the press, the band were able to secure deals that brought their music across to a much wider audience, with licenses in Japan ( Soundholic Co. Ltd ), Brazil ( Hellion Records ), Poland ( Mystic Productions ), Romania ( Rocris Disc ), Bulgaria ( Rocris Disc ), Thailand ( S. Stack Co. Ltd ), Russia ( Irond Records Ltd ), Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China ( Magnus Music ).

Due to the disturbance of the Chinese Civil War, he moved very briefly to Hong Kong before graduating.

On the Soul Assassins Official Website, it was also revealed that Muggs will contribute Production to the new album from rapper Apathy, " Honkey Kong " Due out in early 2011.

Due to heavy subscriptions, the greenshoe ( i. e. over-allotment ) placements were exercised and ICBC's take rose to US $ 21. 9 billion ( 17 % of ICBC's market value before the IPO ), divided in US $ 16 billion in Hong Kong and US $ 5. 9 billion in Shanghai.

Due to the commencement of the KCR West Rail in late 2003 and KCR Ma On Shan Rail in late 2004, Transport Department of Hong Kong requested KMB to reduce its fleet size, so the registration of these four batches of KMB Enviro500 were delayed and some of them were stored for a long time before entering service.

Due to the popularity of Hong Kong drama series, Cantonese is widely understood by Chinese in all parts of Malaysia, though large part of Chinese population are non-Cantonese.

Due to its proximity to the seat of government, the garden has been used as a location for political rallies and demonstrations by groups in Hong Kong such as Falun Gong.

Due to its distance to major commercial cores and lack of MTR access, town development is not as vigorous as other parts of urban Hong Kong ; this is expected to change when the MTR extends to the area.

Due to the success of the Halloween event in 2007, Hong Kong Disneyland announced the return of Disney's Haunted Halloween in mid September to 1 November 2008 in order to compete with the Halloween event held by its local competitor, Ocean Park.