Due to contract issues ( Ramírez wanted a multi-year contract, but the Swallows offered a one-year contract ), he decided to sign with the Yomiuri Giants before the 2008 season.

Due to SHSB's shareholders ' reluctance to inject their own reserves into SHSB and the company's practice of awarding contracts at high premiums, SHSB had to take up substantial loans.

Alliance Atlantis has become by far the largest and most successful Canadian film studio, both as a film and television production house ( the company's television properties include Due South, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and C. S. I.

Due to Tribune's ownership stake, the majority of the company's independent stations were tapped to serve as charter affiliates of the network ; one month later on December 3, 1993, The WB signed an affiliation agreement with WGN-TV, returning a network affiliation to channel 9 for the first time since 1956, and effectively making the station a de facto WB owned-and-operated station due to Tribune's minority interest in the network.

Due to the state of the telephone company's development, she has to use a party line, which she shares with Brad Allen ( Rock Hudson ), a talented, creative Broadway composer and playboy.

Due to the company's success, and the increasing number of seaplanes being produced, larger premises were clearly needed, with ready access to the sea.

Due to Bata's managerial excellence Zlín became famous for the company's extraordinary social scheme developed after the First World War and its modernist urbanism.

Due to poor sales techniques, where jobbers and salesmen gave away much of the Waterbury Watch products as loss-leaders with little regard to the company's future, thereby cheapening the products ' perceived value, Waterbury Watch quickly fell into bankruptcy.

Due to several wrestlers from the company's women's division being released in late 2004 and the introduction of the Raw Diva Search program, Greenwald was mostly left off television, only occasionally appearing on Sunday Night Heat and Raw in losing efforts to the likes of Lita, Victoria, Trish Stratus, and Christy Hemme.

Due to various restrictions imposed by the company's constitution, the selling of Coopers ' shares is a tedious and complicated exercise.

Due to the potential impact of legal liability claims awarded by courts, and the consequential impact on the company's share price, IR often has a role in crisis management of, for example, corporate downsizing, changes in management or internal structure, product liability issues and industrial disasters.

Due to a financial scandal over its parking operations, Kinney National spun off its non-entertainment assets in 1971 ( as National Kinney Corporation ) and changed its own name to Warner Communications Inc. with Steve Ross as the company's sole CEO, president and chairman.

Due to the company's relatively low exposure to mortgage backed securities, the company has largely been able to escape the turmoil of the 2007-2010 financial crisis that seriously damaged many competitors.

Due to the record company's initial refusal to release this album, when a reconfigured Motörhead ( featuring Eddie Clarke on guitar ) were given studio time by Chiswick Records in 1977, they chose to re-record the album in almost its entirety ( only " Fools " and " Leaving Here " were not re-recorded ) leading to their debut release Motörhead.

The expanded menu and format changes were not made at the company's original Chicago locations ( Pizzeria Uno and Pizzeria Due ).

Due to popular and increasing demands for Chile ’ s forestry products, the government is currently focusing on increasing the already vast acreage of Chile ’ s Pine and Eucalyptus plantations as well as opening new industrial plants.

Due to the Machiavellian and competitive nature within both industries, a vast amount of aspiring entertainers and athletes in the world, even some of the most talented may never be recognized and won't ever receive the opportunity to carve a name for themselves.

Due to the vast numbers and great variation in styles, it has not been possible yet to establish an absolute chronology of dolmens in Korea.

Due to the vast amount of extant correspondence between Isabella and her family and friends, her life is unusually well-documented.

Due to the vast influence of immigration from the Canary Islands, the term probably came from the mojo creole marinades adapted in Cuba using citrus vs traditional Isleno types.

Due to the vast number of possible wins with the original poker card based game, it proved practically impossible to come up with a way to make a machine capable of making an automatic payout for all possible winning combinations.

Due to rational ignorance, the vast majority of voters will be unaware of the effort ; in fact, although voters may be aware of special-interest lobbying efforts, this may merely select for policies which are even harder to evaluate by the general public, rather than improving their overall efficiency.

Due to China's enormous population growth and the body of its appointed scholar-officials being accepted in limited size ( about 20, 000 active officials during the Song period ), the larger scholarly gentry class would now take over grassroots affairs on the vast local level.

Due to his vast experience as a soldier, his words were listened to with respect.

Due to the development of cheaper shipping ( both sail and steam ), faster and thus cheaper transport by rail and steamboat, and the modernisation of agricultural machinery, the prairie farms of North America were able to export vast quantities of cheap corn, as were peasant farms in the Russian Empire with simpler methods but cheaper labour.

Due to the vast applications to which image registration can be applied, it is impossible to develop a general method that is optimized for all uses.

Due to its vast amount of hydroelectric power, Bykle is the wealthiest of the Setesdal municipalities.

Due to the malleability of the Mallard's genetic code, which gives it its vast interbreeding capability, mutations in the genes that decide plumage colour are very common and have resulted in a wide variety of hybrids such as Brewer's Duck ( Mallard × Gadwall, Anas strepera ).

Due to the BBC's former policy of deleting old programmes, the vast majority of the episodes from the first ten years of the programme's history have been lost, including the only live appearance by The Beatles.

Due to the vast size of the cemetery, private car traffic is allowed on the cemetery grounds every day of the year except November 1 / All Saint's Day, although a toll has to be paid.

Due to the vast housing growth around Sacramento Executive Airport, the City of Sacramento Planning Department and the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors commissioned a study to move large commercial air operations to a less populated area.

Due to exposure to atomic radiation, Doctor Octopus has the mental ability to control his four, electrically powered, telescoping, prehensile, titanium-steel, artificial, tentacle arms ( even when they are not connected to him, he can also control them over vast distances ), that are attached to a stainless-steel harness encompassing his lower torso.

Due to his vast experience in different offices over the years, Yi I was able to garner a wide vision of politics and with the deep trust of the king, became one of the central figures of politics by the time he was 40.

Due to its vast cultural diversity, geography and its natural beauty, Nepal has been able to portray itself as one of the beautiful shooting location for filmmakers in the past couple of years.

Due to the vast amount of snow on the ground, he has arrived in a horse pulled carriage which had been left in front of the dwelling.

Due to this vast Olympic experience, he was nicknamed " El Olimpico " ( The Olympic ).

Due to Birmingham's vast array of industries, it was nicknamed " workshop of the World ".

Due to the vast disparities among Ontario's different regions, it would be extremely difficult for a provincial government to apply a consistent, unified system across the entire province.

Due to the Atlantic Forest ’ s vast diversity of endemic plants and animals as well as the fragmentation affecting these species, many groups and organizations are working towards the restoration of this unique ecosystem.

Due to heavy Italian influence during the Italian colonial period, Italian is still widely understood in the countries of Libya and Eritrea.

Due to the influence of three modes of Maya's nature, jivas ( individual beings ) perform activities under the control and purview of the eternal time.

Due for release in 2012, the biopic Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie will touch upon Downey's upbringing and formative years in radio and politics before launching into the history of The Morton Downey Jr. Show and Downey's influence on trash TV.

Due to the Sicilian influence on Siculo-Arabic, Maltese has many language contact features and is most commonly described as a language with a large number of loanwords.

Due to similarities in between descriptions of Njörðr in Gylfaginning and descriptions of Bieka-Galles in 18th century missionary reports, Axel Olrik identified this deity as the result of influence from the seafaring North Germanic peoples on the landbound Lapps.

Due to the influence of the Egyptian President Nasser, the PLO supported ' Pan-Arabism ', as advocated by him – this was the ideology that the Arabs should live in one state.

Due to the wide influence of Italian immigrants in American culture, the US has developed regional forms of pizza, some bearing only a casual resemblance to the Italian original.

Due to the fact that until recently this masterpiece has not been available in any English translation, its diffusion has been limited and its influence has never gone beyond ' Book III ', condemning serious enquiry to an understanding of Richard's argument, which is only partial.

Due to increasing influence from Buddhism and mainland Asian thought, codification of the " Japanese " way of religion and laws begins in earnest.

Due to the loss of the ability to read Greek, Thucydides and Herodotus were largely forgotten during the Middle Ages in Western Europe, although their influence continued in the Byzantine world.

Due to West's close relations with the United States and the capitalist states, the influence of socialism had far more deeper roots in the West-Pakistan population.

Due in no small part to the influence of transnational economic bodies such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the G7, G8, G20, and trade agreements between nations with differing degrees of industrialization such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, the European Union, AFTA, ACTA and TPP, regions of economic exchange have become more integrated across the world than ever before and supply chains for vital commodities and products previously maintained within national borders have became distributed across international lines.

Due to the Soviet influence, North Korea established a communist government with a hereditary succession of leadership, with ties to China and Russia.

Due to the city's varied topography and influence from the prevailing summer marine layer, weather conditions can vary by as much as 9 ° F ( 5 ° C ) from block to block.

Due to the band's lack of creative control on the first album, Smith exerted a greater influence on the recording of The Cure's second album Seventeen Seconds, which he co-produced with Mike Hedges.

Due to the interdenominational nature of Unity, its influence extends beyond its membership.

Due to historical accidents of geography, culture and influence between different groups, members of a given religion slowly begin to diverge in their views.

Due to Strang's influence, Mormons came to dominate county government, causing an exodus of many non-Mormon settlers to neighboring areas.

Due to this high proportion of groundnut crop produced by the Mouride, the brotherhood has always seemed to have a large influence in the groundnut market and the economy.

Due to the moderating influence of the Pacific Ocean, Morgan Hill enjoys a mild, Mediterranean climate.

Due to the moderating influence of the Pacific Ocean, San Martin enjoys a warm, Mediterranean climate.

Due to the city being relatively far away from the moderating influence of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, Ocala's summertime temperatures are often the highest in the state while winter temperatures are often the lowest compared to other cities on the peninsula.

Due to the influence of Johnson and their long trading relationship with the British, the Mohawk and three other Iroquois nations allied with them during the American Revolution.

Due to its location at the head of the slack waters of the Monongahela, Greensboro ’ s influence as a commercial and manufacturing center expanded far beyond its small boundaries.