Sentence examples for owing to faulty from inspiring English sources

Lynn Turner, who served under Levitt as the chief accountant at the S.E.C., estimates that investors lost a hundred billion dollars owing to faulty, misleading, or fraudulent audits in the six years preceding Enron's crash.

About one month after launch, it became apparent that the HST's large primary mirror had been ground to the wrong shape owing to faulty testing procedures by the mirror's manufacturer.

Environmental groups, and an investigation by the ProPublica investigative journalism website, have exposed several persistent dangers: leaks in wells owing to faulty casing or migration through layers or rock; breaches in the above-ground tanks meant to store used drilling chemicals; and a rise in air emissions.

In her autobiography, she wrote: The abscess in my ankle was painful and persistent.... Owing to faulty treatment and want of rest my ankle became perfectly stiff, as it is to this day.

A nuclear power plant in Lancashire has been taken offline owing to a faulty boiler pump.

Now, the OPERA scientists think their original measurement can be written off as owing to a faulty element of the experiment's fiber-optic timing system.

Failure of service-critical systems owing to ageing and/or faulty design practices highlights the vulnerability of these systems and the need for proactive management.

And while he, like Peter Klein (2000, 2005), is prepared to grant the contextualist his/her semantic thesis, Ernest Sosa (2000) likewise takes it to have limited relevance to epistemology generally — though, as he sees it, this is often overlooked, owing to "incautious and faulty formulations of the view" (2000, 9).

We present a necessary and sufficient condition for an m × n mesh (m ⩾ 4 and n ⩾ 4 are even) with two faulty nodes to have a fault-free Hamiltonian cycle, which generalizes a result owing to Kim and Yoon [J.S. Kim, S.H. Yoon, Embedding of rings in 2-D meshes and tori with faulty nodes, Journal of Systems Architecture 43 (9) (1997) 643 654].

Venezuela and Nigeria are unreliable, owing to civil strife.

Turnout was low, owing to the snow.