Sentence examples for though the shortfall from inspiring English sources

Though the shortfall — the equivalent of $388 million — was less than some analysts had expected, the continued losses increased the pressure on Howard Stringer, Sony's chairman, chief executive and president, to step up his turnaround effort.

To keep faith with today's workers and tomorrow's retirees, Social Security will need additional funds, though the shortfall is entirely manageable if we act in the next few years.

Workers at Bethlehem Steel, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and US Airways lost all or most of their traditional pension benefits when those employers sought bankruptcy protection in this decade, though some of the shortfall was covered by the federal government.

The gains were not enough to compensate though for the shortfalls in personal computers and disk drives.

Separately, the BBC's executive board is renegotiating the corporation's three-year contract to supply S4C with programmes, and may come under pressure to make good some of the shortfall, though this would be met by licence fee payers.

And with a $550m payment into the pension funds for police and firemen due at the end of this year, he will have little time to find a solution.Mr Emanuel refuses to say whether he will raise property taxes or sales taxes, though he admits that the shortfall will need to be plugged with "revenue".

What may surprise you, though, was that the primary reason given for the shortfall was not the economic recession.

He will no doubt also be questioned about confirmation from the Securities and Exchange Commission that it opened, and subsequently closed without action, an investigation into IBM's accounting.It was not so much the size of the shortfall in revenues significant though it is that alarmed investors and caused IBM's share price to fall by 10% or so on April 8th.

Digital revenues, though rising, are not making up the shortfall.

The shortfall in Italy this week, though significant, has not yet affected homes or factories.

If condo revenue is less than $243 million, then MGM Mirage has to put the amount of the shortfall into construction financing though Mr. Feldman said he doubted that would happen.