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 rough terrain of Colombia communications between regions was difficult and affected the effectiveness of the central government creating isolation in some regions.

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 the very difficult terrain that prevented access to the enemy held areas of operation, troops were often deployed by air assault.

Due to the nature of the terrain, a few natural lakes exist in the Krasnoyarsk neighborhood.

Due to the mountainous terrain in and around Portage Township, it has ( along with other townships in the area ) become host to the largest wind farm in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Due to its hilly terrain and the relatively poor roads of 19th-century Sevier County, a number of smaller communities developed independently along the outskirts of Sevierville.

Due to the unsuitable terrain of Weyr locations ( volcanoes, cliff faces ), Weyrfolk are generally unable to grow food.

Due to the densely forested terrain, bad roads, and poor staff work, the Austrian columns were not mutually supporting.

Due to the lack of vegetation, the much more rugged terrain at that time was heavily eroded by water, wind and by soil fluction ; this resulted in valleys like the Totengrund.

Due to its significant height difference compared with the surrounding terrain the Brocken has the highest precipitation of any point in northern central Europe, with an average annual precipitation ( 1961 – 1990 ) of 1, 814 millimetres.

Due to the inaccessibility of the terrain, the island was bombed from the air with poison pellets, as had recently been attempted on Giannutri and Sardinia, despite concerns raised by environmental groups that indigenous species of wildlife and the surrounding waters might also be adversely affected.

Due to the uneven terrain of the region, railway lines were not laid for many years.

Due to the extremely windy mountain terrain, WV 34 is a very dangerous road for a 21 mile stretch from its junction with WV 62 to Kenna, where it intersects with County Route 21, which provides access to I-77.

Due to its hilly terrain and mining history, rural areas of modern Burnley encroach the urban ones to within a mile of the town centre on the south, north west and north east.

Due to the configuration of the terrain, natural lakes are sparse and small ; most of them are located in Vojvodina, like the glacial lake Palić or numerous oxbow lakes along river flows.

Due to the naval nature of the Pacific campaign, steel for warship production took precedence over tanks for the Imperial Japanese Army ( IJA ), creating by default an IJA light tank that performed admirably in the jungle terrain of the South Pacific.

Due to the hilly terrain north and south of the township, the railway only opened to the town on 15 December 1945, seventy years after a line to the town was originally planned.

Due to the varied terrain, the direction finder has to be used to locate the pilots, whose visual beacons are often masked by mountain ridges.

Due to the steep terrain, the only airfield access is a small snow strip up a glacier at ( 81 ° 47 ' N 58 ° 45 ' E ).

Due to the restrictive terrain, it became near impossible to conduct a tactical movement using formations other than single file.

Due to the severely restrictive terrain, in order to be extracted, the companies had to move to their prior extraction LZ, making the 15 kilometer movement in less than 3 hours to make the extraction time.

Due to several factors, including climate, weather, and terrain, there is a great variety of plants within the coast region.

Due to the number of wheels, the tank could survive losing several without much in the way of adverse effects as well as traversing steeper terrain obstacles.

Due to solidarity with both the United States and with the Soviet Union and with the allies of the two nations, Sudan declared neutrality and instead chose membership in the Non-Aligned Movement throughout the Cold War.

Due to corruption in the Labor Party many former Labor voters defected to the new Democratic Movement for Change which won 15 seats coming in third behind the Likud with 46 seats and Alignment ( Labor plus Mapam ) with 32 seats.

Due to the Movement Towards Westernization ( 文明開化-Meiji Restoration in Japan ) that Japan experienced in the Meiji Era, western customs like eating beef were adopted and spread throughout Japan.

Due to Yugoslavia's neutrality and a leading role in the Non-Aligned Movement, Yugoslav companies exported to both Western and Eastern markets.

Due to Stevens ' reference in Method of Movement ( p. 8 ) to his grip as " a child of Musser grip ", some people refer to it as the Musser-Stevens grip.

Due to the strength of the Oxford Movement and later the Oxford Groups ( alternative Christian movements ), Evangelical Christians in Oxford have generally faced a more pluriform environment than in Cambridge, and the OICCU has tended to follow the general lead of its Cambridge counterpart, the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union ( CICCU ).

Due to the region's unique cultural and historic heritage, the American South has been prominently involved in numerous political issues faced by the United States as a whole, including States ' rights, slavery, the American Civil War, and the American Civil Rights Movement.

Due to his western successes, Ulysses S. Grant was given command of all Union armies in 1864, and organized the armies of William Tecumseh Sherman, George Meade and others to attack the Confederacy from all directions, increasing the North's advantage in manpower.

Due to his close proximity with Jacques Doriot's fascist Parti Populaire Français ( PPF ) during the 1930s and his role in implementing eugenics policies during Vichy France, he was accused after the Liberation of collaborationism, but died before the trial.

Due to her immense beauty, Zeus was frightened that she would be the cause of violence between the other gods.

Due to the dangers the afterlife posed, the Book of the Dead was placed in the tomb with the body as well as food, jewellery, and ' curses '.

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 troubled times the empire was enduring, he had by far the greatest number of rebellions against him of all the Byzantine emperors.

Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.

Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.

Due to needing two accesses to each chip instead of one, and the complications of the video hardware also needing access, reading or writing RAM was much slower than on the BBC Micro.

Due to the timing of interrupts it was possible to disable either the top 100 or bottom 156 lines of the display with palette changes.

Due to its graphical user inferface, it was known as the " Jackintosh ", a reference to Jack Tramiel.

Due to recorded predictions of the destruction of the temple, the Gospel of Mark is believed by many critical scholars to have been composed around or shortly after the fall of Jerusalem due to prophecies assumed to be ex post facto regarding the destruction of the temple, and both traditional and critical scholarly consensus maintains that it was the first written of the four canonical gospels.

Due to his youthful appearance, Clinton was often called the " Boy Governor ", a referent that continues to be used to refer to him during his gubernatorial era on occasion.

Due to the rich mining history dating from medieval times ( the Black Forest was one of the most important mining regions of Europe circa 1100 ) there are many mines re-opened to the public.

Due to the economic crisis that affected most former Eastern bloc countries, a steady reform in the military could not be carried out ; much of the equipment fell into disrepair and some of it was smuggled and sold to the international black market.

Due to the long radio aerials stretching from the wireless room, the radio station was moved from Bletchley Park to nearby Whaddon Hall to avoid drawing attention to the site.

Due to his innovations in computing the age of the world, he was accused of heresy at the table of Bishop Wilfrid, his chronology being contrary to accepted calculations.

Due to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, Bealltainn in Scotland was commonly celebrated on 15 May while in Ireland " Old Beltane " or " Old May " began about the night of 11 May.

Due to his knowledge, reputation, and active support for the cause of Islam, in 1972, a 15-member council selected him as head of Jamiat-e Islami of Afghanistan ; the founder of Jamiat-e Islami of Afghanistan, Ghulam M. Niyazi was also present.

Due to Apple's moves and the mounting debt of Be Inc., BeOS was soon ported to the Intel x86 platform with its R3 release in March 1998.

Due to the rescue efforts by the Caymanians using canoes, the loss of life was limited to eight.

Due to failure to curb deepening unrest in the northern part of the country, Gambi was in July 2006 replaced with Bozizé ’ s old friend from the military academy, Jules Bernard Ouandé.

Due to problems with Pinochet, Leigh was expelled from the junta in 1978 and replaced by General Fernando Matthei.

Due to the Caso Degollados (" slit throats case "), in which three Communist party members were assassinated, César Mendoza, member of the junta since 1973 and representants of the carabineros, resigned in 1985 and was replaced by Rodolfo Stange.