Sentences with phrase «under a cloud because»

The deal followed a year - long courtship that is expected to ease Rational's entry into the United States, which has been under a cloud because of the legal problems facing executive Isai Scheinberg.

The deal, which underpins BP's and Woolworths» ambitious convenience store plans, is now under a cloud because the competition regulator fears it may lessen competition in fuel and convenience retailing and lead to higher pump prices by removing a strong competitor.

The deal is now under a cloud because the competition regulator fears it may lessen competition in fuel and convenience retailing, and lead to higher pump prices by removing a strong competitor.

Not exact matches

However, that effort has largely stalled, both because of a lack of decision - making in the West Wing and concerns among some potential recruits about joining a White House under the cloud of investigation.

It seemed like The Eiffel Tower or Paris» finest restaurants werent enough to distract them from a brilliant idea trapped under the grey clouds, because next thing you know, these two «uber» kids were already brainstorming, thinking about ways to solve this global issue of finding cars at the right place, on the right time.

Because Nietzsche's thought was appropriated by Hitler and Nazism (however legitimately or illegitimately the Nazis understood that self - contradictory philosopher — and the jury is forever out on that question), Nietzsche came under a cloud in Germany immediately after World War II.

Bellerin plays because both Monreal and Gibbs are under injury clouds.

«In addition to the loss of customer traffic at his restaurant, he has lost several hundreds of thousands of dollars of catering and events accounts because of the cloud of suspicion under which he has lived,» Feit wrote in the motion.

Unlike other birds, most of which avoid clouds because of their turbulence, frigatebirds seem to seek them out to ride on the strong updrafts under cumulus clouds in the open ocean to gain altitude.

Humanities education in the nation's schools is «under siege,» primarily because many of those entrusted to defend these disciplines have «lost their nerve, forgotten their mission, clouded their vision, or, in some instances, defected altogether,» according to Challenges to the Humanities, a new volume of essays edited by Chester E. Finn Jr., Diane Ravitch, and P. Holley Roberts.

I got the headlights replaced under warranty because one was clouded and had water in it, and I got the starter replaced also under warranty.

Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke's steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the crime.

The exact mechanism there is not as clear as the stratospheric mechanism, but the possibility of actually trying it out on a limited scale is much more attractive, because you could create a little particle generator and put it under some clouds and see whether they were, indeed, brightened.

When satellite mapping coverage of the globe was well under way, I heard it said (sorry about the hearsay) that the East part of one Hawaian island could not be snapped because of near - permanent cloud cover.

The reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide per new unit of non-hydro «renewable» capacity falls off rapidly as additional «renewable» capacity is added to an electric grid because additional fossil fuel sources must be kept in «spinning reserve» in case the wind dies or the sun goes under a cloud unless hydro is available.

Many papers differentiate between clear skies and cloudy skies because the measurements of various parameters like water vapor are not well - known under clouds.