Lee Byong-chul, a senior fellow at the Institute for Peace and Cooperation in Seoul, said the attempts to negotiate might be driven by economic difficulties, some of them brought on by the international sanctions.
Other suppliers are now muttering about price hikes of their own.Npower (and other energy firms) offer a simple explanation: gas is expensive because oil is expensive, driven by production difficulties, dwindling reserves and insatiable demand from the rapidly growing economies of India and China.
It was driven by the difficulty they were facing getting car loans, mobile phone contracts, mortgages.
"This is a healthy commodity price environment driven by the difficulty in expanding production more than anything else".
Skyworks' strategy is also driven by the difficulty of proving a material adverse change, or MAC, claim in Delaware.
On a very basic level, open access to media of mass communication leads to issues of trust, driven by the difficulty in verifying and validating the credibility and intention of the information as well as the sources.
The CML said it expects strong rental demand to remain, driven by the continuing difficulties first-time buyers face in saving for a deposit and obtaining a mortgage.
According to the theory of migration selection, movement of individuals may be prompted by the search for opportunities and improved socioeconomic conditions (pull factors), or driven by adversities or difficulties experienced at locations of origin (push factors) (Lee, 1966).
Four subjects (Subjects 3, 6, 7 and 10) showed mild moderate impairment on praxis assessment; in all four, poor performance was driven mainly by difficulties with the complex items, for example, 'pretend to start and drive a car'.
