Sentence examples for attributed to acquisitions from inspiring English sources

A few of the unusually large increases in spending can be attributed to acquisitions.

Bank of New York Mellon reported Tuesday that it returned to profitability in the third quarter, which it attributed to acquisitions and an improvement in its investments.

Tyson said chicken pricing was up 2.8% in the quarter, while volume rose 5.6%, attributed to acquisitions.

Out of the 3.5% revenue growth, 3.2% was due to organic growth, 0.1% was attributed to acquisitions (net of divestitures), and 0.2% was attributed to foreign currency translation.

A significant amount of that growth was attributed to acquisitions of other firms.

Therapy resistance can be attributed to acquisition of anti-apoptotic mechanisms by the cancer cells.

Thus, permanent changes could be attributed to acquisition, extinction, and/or reinstatement phases.

The evolutionary success of conspecific weeds is often attributed to acquisition of traits associated with wild plants (e.g. dormancy), presumably selected against in crops.

In some cases, partial homology between satellite repeats and retrotransposons has been attributed to acquisition and dispersal of satellite repeat sequence by transposable elements.

Fourth domain and similar models (the chronocyte, for example) have something very much in common with radical versions of symbiotic theory: Virtually no evolutionary novelty is attributed to standard evolutionary invention in the history of observable lineages; major novelties are attributed to acquisition only, in fully fledged form, via symbiotic mergers.

After several years of growth, Saga has had five consecutive quarters of declining earnings, which analysts have attributed to restaurant acquisitions that failed to pay off and other management decisions.