Wendell cited some recent statistics that would sort of cast a cloud over that view.
With such a cloud over its corporate future, Starwood converted the REIT portion of its business into a taxable corporation.
And they can't be prosecuting crimes, they can't represent us, if the attorney general has a cloud over him.
There has been a cloud over the Justice Department for quite some time.
But they have thrown a cloud over Wall Street generally--along with the economic slowdown and the bursting of the high-tech bubble.
Mr Kawakami's worries over status may have cast a cloud over a career that in every other way was extraordinarily successful.
The division in the settlement vote casts a cloud over what the SEC had claimed on Thursday was a major victory.
Southeast Asia does blow a cloud over our stock market, making earnings forecasts iffy for prime multinationals like Coca-Cola, 3M, Boeing.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao said Thursday the bombing had cast a cloud over the WTO talks, but China still wanted to join.
The result casts a cloud over Mexico's seemingly healthy recovery prospects.
For a start, both Yukio Hatoyama, prime minister since September, and the DPJ's secretary-general, Ichiro Ozawa, are under a cloud over the misuse of political funds.
While Britain's wettest June in more than a century may have cast a cloud over the final preparations for the Games, forecasters say the weather is now set to brighten.
The Times reckons the furore will send shockwaves "far beyond the confines of the courtroom" and the Guardian says it will cast a cloud over the IMF role in tackling the eurozone debt crisis.
Either way, the scandal at the Administrative Security Department (DAS) casts a cloud over Mr Uribe's tough but successful security policies, which have pushed leftist rebels far from urban centres and restored government control over much of the country.
Fannie has quadrupled its earnings per share over the past decade yet still has a cloud hanging over it from Freddie Mac's accounting scandal.
With regulators at a loss and Boeing failing to detail what their internal investigation has shown, a cloud hangs over the stock, which remains essentially flat from a year ago.
Loving editorial attention was given to the face of Satan when he appeared in a cloud formation over New York.
Conversely, there is a widely held view that aging hangs like a dark cloud over individuals, families, communities and many countries in the developed world.
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This will not stop fracturing opponents from casting a dark cloud over fracturing based on air quality hysteria, just as they did regarding water quality.
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Until Mr. Weiner makes up his mind, his would-be rivals are left with a cloud hanging over the race and weighing how he would change its dynamics.
The 68-year-old hedge fund manager is shutting down Pequot Capital amid a lingering investigation into insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission that has "cast a cloud" over the operation.
"The 16 January kidnapping and murder of foreign oil workers at the In Amenas gas field has cast a dark cloud over the outlook for the country's energy sector, " it said.
"With all of the corruption headlines in the past few weeks, it's only going to make voters more cynical to have a mayoral candidate with a cloud hanging over his head, " Mr. Albanese said.
Goldman Sachs reckons that FCPA violations typically cast a three-year cloud over a company under investigation, and that the overall cost can reach 9% of profits before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation over that period.
This might make sense for large scale solar farms, since the integration of PV would allow the overall price of power to be lower than CSP alone, while CSP would be able to compensate for the rapid output changes from PV that occur whenever a cloud passes over, as well as producing power at night, or shifting it ot peak afternoon periods.
When Wachovia, for instance, announced its profit decline earlier this month, it said the deal flow has slowed and investors are skittish in the face of liquidity challenges - which means, until it becomes clearer how deep these losses have been, there's going to be sort of a cloud hanging over Wall Street, and also over the economy as a whole because this affects the housing market.
By depriving the voters of a free choice, Mexico's politicians have cast a cloud of uncertainty over democracy and a question over their country's hard-won economic stability.
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