Sentence examples for is owed because from inspiring English sources

BHP Billiton executives have infuriated a Senate committee by refusing to say how much the Australian Taxation Office ATOO) believes it is owed because of the way the mining giant channels profits through a marketing hub in Singapore.

Obedience is owed because the "Laws" have provided the whole basis for Socrates' education and life in the city, a city in which he has notably chosen to remain, never traveling abroad except on military service.

In the book, Mr. McLean recalls her paying him $300 for an engagement instead of the $150 he was owed because, she told him, he "did so well".

Self-employed workers rarely receive the money they are owed because they are counted as unsecured creditors and are paid if there is money left once debts owed to banks are settled.

Richard A. Grasso, the former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, asked to receive the $139.5 million he was owed because he was fearful that a future board would prevent him from receiving such a large sum, according to directors who have been interviewed by stock exchange lawyers.

The new board said that it would seek to open negotiations with creditors and was more circumspect in its comments at the meeting than Mr. Miguet was in an interview the day before, when he said that creditors should be willing to settle for a small fraction of what they are owed because much of the debt was owned by hedge funds that had purchased it at deep discounts.

He added that some councils struggled to keep track of what was owed because of staff turnover and a lack of experience within the planning process.

In his argument in the voting-rights case, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli tried this line, too, insisting on "the deference that Congress is owed… because, frankly, of the superior institutional competence of Congress to make these kinds of judgments".

So Bale is owed - because no one even nominated him for Empire of the Sun.

He is owed this because his former employer, British Coal, failed to protect him from dangerous, dusty conditions.

Not because he is owed it, but because Goodell will learn a lot more about the person Vick is or has become when he has returned to the good life more than watching him scramble for forgiveness during additional time off.