But sometimes, it turns out, the city's inability to recover taxpayer dollars owes to rules that the city's lawmakers devised and approved.
But much is now public, owing to disclosure rules on Western stock exchanges, due diligence by foreign companies, lawsuits and a newfound aggressiveness in the Russian opposition news media.
Given the Academy's antipathy toward the genre, she'd never have made it, but owing to outdated rules regarding VOD releases, the film was never eligible in the first place.
Another factor was that the federal government, owing to the rules of Medicaid funding, threatened to cut $385 million in those payments to Massachusetts if the state did not reduce the number of uninsured recipients of health care services.
Prost outscored Senna by 105 points to 94 across 16 races, but owing to a rule that didn't make a lot of sense then and makes even less now, only a driver's best 11 results counted towards the final tally.
Monaghan and Perry miss out owing to the rule that only allows three players from one particular club, while Menzies, who would have been the oldest man in the squad at the age of 36, has only just returned from injury.
A date of birth is no longer needed, owing to age discrimination rules.
Scaling heights and making your way over obstacles via environmental help, switches and Trico generally seem achievable in a narrow number of ways, but with some flexibility that comes through owing to the loose rules, which differ greatly from the accuracy required for something like fast-twitch first-person shooters.
This line of inquiry suggests that one of the reasons why early feminist analyses of the production of gender, such as Nancy Chodorow's (1978), finds it difficult to think race and gender together, and thereby isolates gender from race, is owing to the implicit rules (or "American grammar") that govern gender; to be a woman has always already meant to be a white woman.
Hobbs could not immediately play for Surrey owing to the qualification rules in place at the time for the County Championship a player had to be born in a county or to have lived there for two years in order to represent it.
