• This was owing to the fact that twenty years prior, Spain had been neutral in World War I.

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  • However, owing to the fact that any cancellations would be beyond airlines' control, there is no automatic right to other compensation.

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  • Admittedly, part of this pique was owing to the fact that some of them were running utility companies that had been privatised.

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  • Cramer suggested that these inconsistencies are owing to the fact that hedge funds are making marginal contrarian bets that are distorting market prices.

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  • Owing to the fact that participation in pre-school education is voluntary, ministers say they are now aiming to make sure 85% of youngsters in this age group take part in nursery education.

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  • Ms Wolf also has a habit of stretching concepts past their breaking point such as her theory that women are more prone to mysticism than men, owing to the fact that they are capable of producing more dopamine during sex.

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  • The conflict has existed over the course of the past 60 years owing to the fact that there's been an attempt to put one group above another, and hence you have a conflict, which you would have a conflict in any other place around the world.

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  • New York is a fishbowl too, he acknowledged, but he expects it to be a different, less-intense environment than the talk-radio fueled Boston scene perhaps, he said, owing to the fact that there are two teams in every sport in New York, making each individual team's struggles less a matter of life-or-death.

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  • Despite the generous hype, and the fact that Mayweather will move up to 154 lbs to fight Cotto, the billing has a whiff of a stand-in, owing to the fact that a primary reason it's happening is because once more Mayweather could not come to terms with his most alluring rival, Manny Pacquiao.

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  • Both Android and Windows Mobile have come up in the past on multiple occasions, owing in no small part to the fact that Nokia's had an outward appearance of spinning its platform wheels on the backs of Symbian and Maemo for far, far too long, but so far, nothing's materialized.

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  • Private equity is very much in the news today owing to the great wealth achieved by its successes, not to mention the fact that presidential candidate Mitt Romney earned a fortune while heading up one of the leading lights of private equity, Bain Capital.

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  • Making full use of the fact that it fields the most powerful army in the country and owing as well to the US's decision to abandon the pro-Western March 14 movement in favor of an approach that makes no distinction between America's friends and foes in Lebanon, Hizbullah strong-armed its way back to the driver's seat in the new Lebanese government.

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  • Clark, in fact, has a far wider audience than just the skater kids that are his subjects, owing to his early success as a photographer of raw black and white pictures of young drug users in his groundbreaking book, Tulsa, in 1971, and later as the director of his first film, Kids, in 1995.

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