1.   Children are taught, for sound historical reasons, that to point is rude.

2.   The belief that self-validation was not an ideal system and that it prevailed in universities for historical reasons only.

3.   It is important to note that, for historical reasons, the tort is committed against possession and not ownership of land.

4.   Other accounts include the few private accounts the Bank still maintains for historical reasons, the accounts of overseas central banks and the accounts of its own staff.

5.   Among other answers, press aides said all letters that the president sees or answers are saved for historical reasons.

6.   All four members of the new bloc are leery of France for historical reasons, but all enjoy warm relations with the United States.

7.   But investors have a right to be nervous for the simple historical reason that bad news usually takes the market by surprise.

8.   But other historical reasons dictated this concert be first, he says.

9.   But there are historical reasons for this phenomenon.

10.   For historical reasons, for instance, the Coast Guard is in the Department of Transportation, while the Customs Service is part of the Treasury Department.