And I suggest further that the main cause of the trouble we are in has been the failure of American policy-makers, ever since we assumed free world leadership in 1945, to deal with this problem realistically and seriously.

At length, Ish-bosheth lost the main prop of his tottering cause by accusing Abner of sleeping with Rizpah ( cf.

Along with James II's perceived despotism, his religion was the main cause of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and the previous linked religious and succession problems solved by the joint monarchy of William and Mary.

The Buddha held that attachment to the appearance of a permanent self in this world of change is the cause of suffering, and the main obstacle to liberation.

Conversely, Fleet Captain Honoré Ganteaume later reported the cause as an explosion on the quarterdeck, preceded by a series of minor fires on the main deck among the ship's boats.

A lack of a healthy micro-organism community is the main reason why composting processes are slow in landfills with environmental factors such as lack of oxygen, nutrients or water being the cause of the depleted biological community.

The main cause of the problem was that the disk drive itself did not feature any means of detecting when the read / write head had reached track zero.

It has two main groups: " straights ", now the minority, emphasize vitalism, innate intelligence and spinal adjustments, and consider vertebral subluxations to be the cause of all disease ; " mixers ", the majority, are more open to mainstream views and conventional medical techniques, such as exercise, massage, and ice therapy.

This indifferent attitude of Amsterdam was the main cause of the slow, half-hearted policy, which would eventually lead to losing the colony.

There are three main types of fault, all of which may cause an earthquake: normal, reverse ( thrust ) and strike-slip.

Bipedalism is the basic adaption of the Hominin line and is considered the main cause behind a suite of skeletal changes shared by all bipedal hominins.

Though more than 99 % of the dry atmosphere is IR transparent ( because the main constituents — N < sub > 2 </ sub >, O < sub > 2 </ sub >, and Ar — are not able to directly absorb or emit infrared radiation ), intermolecular collisions cause the energy absorbed and emitted by the greenhouse gases to be shared with the other, non-IR-active, gases.

William had already acquired the reputation of being the main champion in Europe of the Protestant cause against Catholicism and French absolutism ; in the developing English crisis he saw an opportunity to prevent an Anglo-French alliance and bring England to the anti-French side, by carrying out a military intervention directed against James.

Kashubians who were suspected to support the Polish cause, particularly those with higher education, were arrested and executed, the main place of executions being Piaśnica ( Groß Plaßnitz ), where about 12, 000 were executed.

The main cause for this is that the lungs of the human fetus are among the last organs to develop during pregnancy.

The main cause of the Duchenne and Becker types of muscular dystrophy is the muscle tissue's cytoskeletal impairment to properly create the functional protein dystrophin and dystrophin-associated protein complex.

Safari 4 is now also more crash resistant, being able to isolate plug-ins which are the main cause of web browser crashes.

UV-B radiation can be harmful to the skin and is the main cause of sunburn ; excessive exposure can also cause genetic damage, resulting in problems such as skin cancer.

Psychological egoists argue that although some actions may not clearly cause physical nor social positivity, nor avoid negativity, one's current contemplation or reactionary mental expectation of these is the main factor of the decision.

Historians that attribute responsibility for the war to Athens cite this event as the main cause for blame.

The main cause of the Punic Wars was the conflict of interests between the Carthaginian Empire and the expanding Roman Republic.

A stormy courtship followed ; Scott was not her only suitor — his main rival was would-be novelist Gilbert Cannan — and his absences at sea did not assist his cause.

The book's main idea is that high levels of fat intake are the cause of many health disorders common in the U. S., and thus that cutting fat consumption down to 10 % of the total calories consumed would be optimal for most people.

Rado concluded that pursuing the genital organs of the opposite sex is the standard form of achieving genital stimulation and that the main cause of homosexuality is anxiety, although he granted that " constitutional factors may have an influence on morbid sex developments.

`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Steele's main business here is to arouse public opinion to the immediate danger of a Stuart Restoration.

The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.

In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

Krim's main attack is upon the aesthetic and the publishing apparatus of American literary culture in our day.

The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main ''.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

It is vitally important that the new U.S. aid program should encourage all of them, since the main thrust for development must come from the less developed countries themselves.

Stated in its simplest terms, the main job of the Planning Division is to plan for the future of the State of Rhode Island.

The substantial progress being made in ballistic missile technology is rapidly shifting the main threat from manned bombers to missiles.

Their main asset is an abundance of unsaturated fatty acids, so necessary for maintaining the good health of the circulatory system.

The main requirement is to be sure the boat is numbered according to the regulations of the state in which the boat will be principally used.

The main set of bars are the `` tappets '' and one tappet is connected to each lever.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.