Sentence examples for hitherto, because from inspiring English sources

Although dykes (called levees in America) protect these estates and central Bangkok, they may raise water levels, and thus the risk of flooding, elsewhere.Wildfires, which destroyed thousands of homes in Texas in 2011 and in Australia in 2009, were more destructive than hitherto because, as populations have grown, new housing has been built in wooded areas.

That has been possible hitherto because revenues from oil exports have risen dramatically, from $17 billion in 1999 to $58 billion last year.The result is known to economists as Dutch disease: an overvalued exchange rate favours imports but makes life hard for manufacturers and farmers.

The real change in Athenian politics came only with the loss of the empire in 404 and the resulting partial breakdown in the "consensus politics" that had prevailed hitherto (because all social classes stood equally to gain from the empire, which financed political pay, provided land for all, and cushioned the rich against the cost of furnishing the fleet).

The catalytic potential of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) for the synthesis of phospholipids with defined fatty acid structure in the sn-2 position has been underestimated hitherto because of very low conversion in most organic solvents.

However, such information has not been available hitherto because of three main challenges.

World cities such as London have tended to defy understanding hitherto because simple hierarchical subdivision has ignored the fact that their polycentricity subsumes a pattern of nested urban movements.

In what appears to be a deliberate attempt to upset liberal-left sensibilities Žižek (2007b: 195) claims that revolutions have failed hitherto not because they were 'too extreme' but because they 'did not question their own presuppositions' adequately enough.

New analyses suggested that it would be easier than hitherto assumed, because previous assessments had exaggerated the strength of the Warsaw Pact.

This produced a hunting economy providing food and great quantities of bone, horn, skin, sinews, and, while the mammoth lasted, ivory; with it grew new technologies exploiting the unique properties of materials hitherto unworkable because of their hardness.

We utilize biotin-independent E. coli for the production of the high-value protein streptavidin which was hitherto restricted because of toxic effects due to biotin depletion.

The most surprising among them must be the discovery of Arcade Fire's sense of humour, hitherto unnoticed, possibly because it was hitherto nonexistent.