Sentence examples for owing to us from inspiring English sources

Demand for artificial sweeteners fell in the US as the popularity of fizzy drinks took a sharp dip and the company said sales lost owing to US transport problems had gone to competitors.

Despite its influence with Damascus and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militia fighting alongside government forces, Iran has been largely excluded from international talks to forge a peace settlement owing to US and British objections that Tehran does not accept the need for Assad to quit.

Assange's statement says that, owing to US hostility towards WikiLeaks, his bank cards were blocked after his arrival in Sweden in the summer of 2010 at the peak of the Pentagon's conflict with him over the release of a trove of diplomatic and military documents.

:though worthy we were for the gods to grant it?" Skogul said: :"'Tis owing to us that the issue was won : and your foemen fled".

The Derby-based engine manufacturer joined Pearson, BG Group and Royal Bank of Scotland in surprising investors this year with an about-turn on earnings, predicting profits would be flat in 2014 owing to US defence cuts and the end of profitable contracts.

We took nothing more than was owed to us.

What we were as citizens, what was owed to us, what we owed to each other.

"The duties owed to us run into hundreds of millions of dollars," he said.

"I don't think that anything is owed to us," Phillies closer Brett Myers said.

I think they are conscious of the blood debt that they owe to us and I don't believe they would let us down".

This is the time for the government to call in the "for the public good" chips owed to us in the great bandwidth giveaway to the broadcasters.