The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.

`` The reason for that report was to settle the matter of the list.

`` How about your press conference three days later -- what was the reason for that??

He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

The great spectacle was a source of rancor, and Son et Lumiere, which the French were trying to promote with the Athenians, was the reason.

The position of the new camp was admirably selected and well fortified, its easily defensible nature being one good reason why Howe did not attack it.

But Edward was invading Scotland for precisely the same reason, and his insubordinate vassal was the ally of the king of France.

While he was at it, the philosopher of the Kremlin contributed an additional assist to the rule of reason by bellowing at those in the west who can't appreciate coexistence thru suicide.

Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.

There was good reason for Gen. Taylor to make an inspection trip at this time.

The three would never meet again, but for some reason or other Mr. Podger was sure he would always remember the incident.

The reason was to speed up domestic production in the USSR, which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the permanent recession in Russian living standards.

Just because Cheddi Jagan, new boss of British Guiana, was educated in the United States is no reason to think he isn't a Red.

With good reason it appeared that a new day was upon divided Christendom.

In fact, he intimated clearly that that was the reason that Wilson had been sent here -- to make a larger contribution of dollar money.

He explained his errand, but without bothering much to make it plausible, for he felt something well up in him which was the reason why he had fled the army.

One reason the portwatchers let Sposato take them over was to get the protection of his musclemen.

He was not going to lose the mission by default, and whatever reason Kayabashi had for bringing his little sight-seeing group to the mission, he was going to be in for a surprise.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

Applications could not directly address video memory in this mode without modification, so it was incompatible with most games, although there is no inherent reason why a game could not be written to function in shadow mode.

In its list of the top 25 game consoles of all time, IGN claimed that the main reason for the 5200's market failure was the technological superiority of its competitor, while other sources maintain that the two consoles are roughly equivalent in power.

If a non-poison ball roquets a poison ball, the standard roqueting options apply, but if a poison ball travels through a wicket or hits a stake for any reason, it forfeits and is eliminated from the game.

The reason for this is because SimCity wasn't a traditional game that had definite " win " and " lose " conditions.

Again the reason for the variation is to make the game more fair for player 2.

Again the reason for the variation is to make the game more fair for player 2.

During production of the game, many levels were rejected for one reason or another.

For this reason, the feather shuttle makes the game seem faster, but also allows more time to play strokes.

Part of the skill involved in the game is one's ability to remember what cards have been played and reason out what cards remain.

In 1999, GQ listed the Monon Bell game as reason number three on its " 50 Reasons Why College Football is Better Than Pro Football " list.

Part of the reason for splitting Zork into three different games was that, unlike the PDP systems the original ran on, micros did not have enough memory and disk storage to handle the entirety of the original game.

Many fans of the game consider this to be paradoxical and inconsistent, since applying reason and rationality to the world of Ars Magica should really lead to the conclusion that magic exists and fairies are real, and yet the " True Reason " promoted by the realm of Reason claimed the opposite, and thus resembled a delusional state of mind rather than a rational one.

It is for this reason that pétanque is a throwing game, rather than a rolling game like bocce or bowling.

The show is made up of games that are scored by the host, who declared arbitrary point values after the game, often citing a humorous reason for his decision.

The addition of the Windows Key to keyboards may have been part of the reason why most current games have evolved their control schemes, and most first person shooters generally use the mouse in conjunction with a " Half-Life " style of control ( W, A, S, D, Space, Shift, Ctrl ) named apparently because it may have been the first widespread game to popularize such an interface, and because usage of the Alt button would nowadays heighten the risk of accidentally pressing the Windows Key.

Statistically, the most difficult points in the game to reach aside from the coins are the 8th points, and they are named les fleches de diable, or ' the Devil's points ', for this reason.

One reason for this is that a device which outputs an RF signal must in general be certified by regulatory authorities — such as the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) — and thus by having an external RF modulator, only the modulator itself needed to be certified, rather than the entire video game system.

However, Barwood thought the idea was substandard, having been declined for a reason, and requested to create an original story for the game instead.

It was said that the reason why Philidor emphasized the pawns in the chess game was related to the political background during the eighteenth century of France, and that he regarded pawns as the " Third rank " on the chess board ( citizens were regarded as the third rank of the society before the French Revolution started in 1789 ).

Kokopelli also presides over the reproduction of game animals, and for this reason, he is often depicted with animal companions such as rams and deer.

However, it was " of so bewitching a nature ," says our old writer, " by reason of the several multiplications and advantages which it seemingly offered to the unwary punter, that a great many like it so well that they would play at small game rather than give out ; and rather than not play at all would punt at six-penny, three-penny, nay, a two-penny bank, – so much did the hope of winning the quinze-et-le-va and the trente-et-le-va intoxicate them.