Sentence examples for because it was associated from inspiring English sources
Apple breeders used to select specifically for russetting because it was associated with longer shelf life.
After the 1979 Islamic revolution, playing chess was banned in public in Iran and declared haram, or forbidden, by senior clerics because it was associated with gambling.
Following a history scattered with references to gay men – like Emperor Ai who legend has it cut off his sleeve rather than wake his male lover during the Han dynasty (206BC to AD220) – homosexuality was stigmatised after the communist revolution in 1949, because it was associated with western decadence.
Guillermo Hernandez, director of the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California at Los Angeles, said that regional Mexican music was looked down upon in Mexico and the United States because it was associated with rural working-class people.
A 2010 study by Cone Communications, an agency that focuses on cause-related marketing, found that 41 percent of consumers had purchased a product within the last year because it was associated with a good cause, up from 20 percent in 1993.
The 2010 Cause Evolution Study by Cone, another public relations company, found that 41 percent of consumers had bought a product in the last year because it was associated with a good cause, more than double the 20 percent who did so in 1993, the first year of the annual study.
SES could confound the association between diabetes and mortality because it is associated with both diabetes prevalence and mortality.
"But such furniture was always expensive because it's associated with Marie Antoinette".
