Sentence examples for may have owed from inspiring English sources

Libya's return to respectability may have owed something to sanctions.

The breathtaking malice of the Addams cartoons may have owed much to this struggle.

He may have owed his fortunes to the intercession of his grandmother Zakutu, who had recognized his superior capacities.

This particular technique may have owed as much to convenience as to a desire to pay homage to another composer.

HE MAY have owed his election as president to the popularity of Álvaro Uribe, whom he served as defence minister.

By then, however, her reticence may have owed something to the fact that she'd begun seeing Gordon Brown.

Sally Clark may, or may not, have owed her incarceration to Dr Williams but, perversely, without doubt, she had him to thank for her eventual, albeit short-lived freedom.

"You know we love you," Valenti tells Muscarella, after confronting him about money that he may or may not have owed at his own workplace.

JFK's slim electoral victory may well have owed much to "slippery practices", but the debt was to Kennedy's father and Chicago mayor Richard Daley, not, as Stone claims, to Lyndon Johnson, who also, contra Stone, never "managed Congress for Roosevelt", being far too junior at the time.

A report by Deutsche Bank argues that firms are moving towards a collaborative "project economy" that demands more "soft skills" and flexible working practices.Germany's birth rate jumped last year to its highest since 1990 thanks to parents' pay, perhaps, but it may also have owed much to the buoyant economy.

Some of the disappointing results may have been owed to physician and patient fears of narcotic addiction or concerns over side effects.