Sentence examples for caused it to take from inspiring English sources
Once again, the White House's obsession with Iraq has caused it to take its eye off the real threats facing America.
The bank said the chaotic month of September caused it to take an additional $3.8 billion in write-downs on real estate investments as well as assets related to now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers and also the government-backed mortgage financial giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Now that eBay's Skype write-down has caused it to take a $936 million loss last quarter and founder Niklas Zennstrom is out, the question is what will eBay do with Skype.
Protesters charged that police did nothing to stop the violence, and some say the rulers deliberately caused it to take revenge against soccer fans known as Ultras who joined protests and to show the military must remain in power.
In one home experiment, adding 2 tablespoons of table salt to 1 liter (0.3 US gal) of water caused it to take an additional 33 seconds to boil, and it increased the boiling temperature by only 4°F (2°C).
A grand piano is long and low, which improves its sound over an upright but also causes it to take up a lot more floor space.
After the close Wednesday, the Boise, Idaho-based chip maker reported a wider fiscal second-quarter loss as memory chip prices continued to slide because of global oversupply, causing it to take a $463 million write-down in the value of its memory chip business.
The anchor snagged, turning the boat's stern in the direction of the rising waves, causing it to take on water and capsize.
Tata had to relocate the factory to another state, Gujarat — causing it to take more than a year and a half to fill orders for the first 100,000 cars.
In a recent paper for the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, Andrew Futter, an associate professor at the University of Leicester, suggested that a nuclear command-and-control system might be hacked to gather intelligence about the system, to shut down the system, to spoof it, mislead it, or cause it to take some sort of action like launching a missile.
ImClone said Monday that the settlements will cause it to take a charge of $55.4 million in the fourth quarter.
