If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason. From LearnThat.org. [Sir Isaac Newton]
Must pay what is owing. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : to pay what is owing. From Dictionary.com.
Instead, it's quite a label owing to its green production facilities that are thrown open to the public via the. From Wordnik.com. [Green Diary] Reference
This threat, he said, was delivered by Pradyumna Pradhan, whom he described as owing allegiance to the BJP. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
AC Milan old boy Kaka, who has yet to find his best form at Real, misses the chance to face the club where he made his name owing to a knee injury. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
And when I thought of all the sufferings I had gone through that term owing to her repulsive son and, indirectly, for her sake, I felt that the time had come to speak out. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Nugget] Reference
The latter is so called owing to a statue of said hero. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
Still, the idea of owing allegiance to both sides in a war was ... disquieting. From Wordnik.com. [Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel] Reference
However, not many will be sold to the idea owing to some health risks involved in the process. From Wordnik.com. [Produce a baby, not a dog] Reference
About 214,500 Lexus vehicles that were sold in the United States are set to be recalled owing to som. From Wordnik.com. [CarBuyersNoteBook] Reference
Players that The Post-Crescent identified as owing back taxes, interest and penalties to the state, include. From Wordnik.com. [The Oshkosh Northwestern Latest Headlines] Reference
Some 50 years ago, the notion of owing debt in the US carried with it some degree of shame and embarrassment. From Wordnik.com. [US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha] Reference
Y = f (t), which rises to a maximum and falls slowly to zero again owing to conduction away of the heat, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Archibald V. Hill - Nobel Lecture] Reference
When I request a discount to which I am entitled owing to my advanced age, I ask for the fogy discount or rate. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1] Reference
To be fair, it isn't really a name-drop: a name-drop is when you omit a famous surname owing to real or affected familiarity. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
He watered again at Horn Island, and then sailed through the passage which bears Flinders 'name owing to the fallacy that he discovered it. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
That very evening he resigned his commission, "owing," as he wrote. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917] Reference
And what's NBC's policy, if any, on journalist "owing" their sources who are also subjects of their own reporting?. From Wordnik.com. [04/05/2006] Reference
The forum also links to a blog entry from Neil Gaiman about entitlement that says a lot about authors "owing" books. From Wordnik.com. [we *were* on the cruise...] Reference
There was talk of redemption on Easter Sunday, even of "owing" them something. From Wordnik.com. [Philly.com - Latest Videos] Reference
As such, Rand won't end up "owing" her in the sense that some people here fear. From Wordnik.com. [Ron Paul 2012 | Campaign for Liberty at the Daily Paul] Reference
About that "owing" part - the people they owe it to are the people in those nice NY restaurants. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing the Forest] Reference
We've seen how bands who don't hit it big can end up "owing" their major label hundreds of thousands of dollars, after all. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets] Reference
Each and every act of giving and/or receiving is in truthful fact a voluntary act with no real bearing to the concept of 'owing'. From Wordnik.com. [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference
You might enjoy being able to have cyber-sex without "owing" the other person any kind of emotional commitment, or even a dinner date. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It also lost an additional 22 billion gallons, owing to a broken gauge. From Wordnik.com. [Rivers Running Dry] Reference
Agricultural income is plummeting owing to competition from China and Southeast Asia. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Rich] Reference
We had our first night's relief in November, owing to bad flying weather on the Continent. From Wordnik.com. [The Bombs Screamed Down] Reference
This may be owing to a secondary exposure problem: landlords sweeping off their windowsills and roofs. From Wordnik.com. [Is Ground Zero Safe?] Reference
Some of the largest spaces sit empty, owing to the soft economy; today, the average tenant leases just 3,000 square feet. From Wordnik.com. [In The Boonies, An Oasis Of Success] Reference
The same ads chide Glenn for not repaying his 1984 presidential-campaign debt: "He just keeps owing and owing and owing ...". From Wordnik.com. [Who's In, Who's Out In The New Congress] Reference
Russia was even forced to suspend its pullout from the Baltics last fall owing to a lack of servicemen to haul equipment around. From Wordnik.com. [Selling Off Big Red] Reference
Trunk: Though the Boxster is a two-seater, there's plenty of trunk room, front and back, owing to the car's mid-engine placement. From Wordnik.com. [Driving the Little Boxster that Could] Reference
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