Investors will support acquisitions that are complementary, so long as there's demonstrable potential for value upside and the financing does not inflict inordinate strain on the balance sheet.
Obesity inflicts unnecessary strain on the heart muscle, in addition to contributing to diabetes and circulatory problems, all of which contribute to heart disease.
It isn't so very unusual for couples to dream of quitting the rat race and starting some creative endeavour together, only to put it off indefinitely for fear of inflicting an unbearable strain on their relationship.
Fear of Western airstrikes in the past week was a factor in an exodus that continued to gather momentum, inflicting acute social strain and political tension on receiving countries, António Guterres, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, said in an interview in Geneva on Monday.
The Great Depression in the 1930s inflicted serious financial strain on the diamond industry, but this did not deter De Beers from continuing to pursue a grand design of building a global diamond empire.
Strains of Bd are known to differ in how much mortality they inflict on amphibians [45] and multiple strains of Bd may occur within the same locality [21], [46].
Whereas the Nissle wild-type (WT) strain was able to inflict high levels of DNA double strand breaks to cultured intestinal crypt cells, the isogenic Nissle ∆ clbA mutant was unable to induce such damage, as revealed by analyzing the phosphorylation of the histone γH2AX (Fig. 1A C).
But unlike the other countries, Lebanon risks being plunged into sectarian strife, possibly even civil war, by the strains inflicted on its own delicate internal situation by the Syrian crisis.
In a new paper, "The Responsibility Gap in Corporate Crime," I take up the problem of what I call the responsibility gap: the inability of conventional theories of criminal liability to easily, or even under strain, satisfy urges to deter or inflict retribution on corporate managers.
Yeah, it sounds to me that whatever strain of stupidity led someone to inflict this dumbness on the Spanjer family was isolated and overruled by whoever actually runs the show at Grand Island Public Schools.
The case strained US-Turkey relations and could inflict more damage on already soured relations between Ankara and Berlin, correspondents say.
