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Honda said the brake problems were due to the gradual accumulation of air over time in a part of the braking system.

Two condemned prisoners were due to be executed, but no one knew their language to hear their confession.

At Yerevan airport, Tina Karapetian, 45, said she had been waiting for her sister and her sister's two sons, who were due on the flight.

She said the findings of the report were due to be released as a series of papers soon.

About a week before we were due to graduate I found myself alone on this floor. I always got cold and anxious there.

Though it was more likely that these events were due to cosmic rays or radioactivity, the results were consistent with a detection of WIMPs.

Local elections were due, in which, as an affirmative-action measure, Shahabpur was to be reserved for a dalit pradhan.

They were due for a hearing in a vandalism case in which they're also accused of squatting on a Santa Barbara property they used to own.

There was a woman who was pregnant with twins, and shortly before they were due, she had an accident and went into a coma.

Deaths were due to pre-existing medical conditions or events, which had occurred at the time of hip fracture.

There was no time for me to chit-chat with Mr. Rat, however, because we were due at the briefing.

The two German carmakers were due to meet on Monday to work out the financial details of a tie-up, but the meeting got cancelled.

Suppose that this force were due to a movement comparable to that of a stream of air passing from above toward the center of the earth.

She was carrying on about not getting anything done that day since they were due to move out of their apartment by that next Friday.

Reports said the workers were due to be discharged from hospital on Monday.

The BBC's Global News Director Peter Horrocks said the closures were due to a 16% cut in British government funding.

Fortunately, three days before we were due to leave, the ban on inessential travel to Luxor was lifted.

The next day, a Friday, euro-zone leaders were due in Brussels for a quick meeting to approve the Greek package.

An hour before we were due to leave, I went to my room across the hall and lay down on the bed.

A few dozen more were due to leave Haiti on a flight late Monday.

The children spent the weekend with their father and were due to be picked up by their mother today.

Brock said she was happy living in China, as she felt the various changes in the country were due to its increasing economic development.

The giant trees, which were due to be lit on Friday, are a longstanding bone of contention between the Koreas.

And although I believe the kind of areas we saw here were due to questionable judgment, or a lack of attention, not intentional wrongdoing.

To be fair, by no means all of these were due to government policies.

It concluded that most of these were due to direct attacks on corporate servers, not to mobile devices being compromised.

In the reported outbreak, the differences were due to phage excision, showing the power of this technique in epidemiological studies.

Would you bother to look after a property you were due to be expelled from?

Depictions of Akhenaten with a bizarre feminine physique were due to the belief that god represented by the pharaoh was androgynous.

Company engineers were due to begin pressure tests on the new cap late Tuesday, gradually closing its valves to shut down the flow of oil.

There are many instances of setbacks which were due to being terrified of the enemy.

The long lines of supporters began forming halfway around the park four hours before the gates were due to open.

Unfortunately for me, the majority of my recent projects were due "yesterday. " A client pays for fast work, and standards have to be met.

These puzzling shifts and transformations in Mr. Franklin were due to the effect on him of his foreign training.

Factory workers jumping to death at factories in Shenzhen were due to the monotonous nature of work.

Several books suggested that the disappearances were due to an intelligent, technologically advanced race living in space or under the sea.

Amnesty International, the human-rights advocacy group, last week reported two more deaths, which the police said were due to illness.

Its growth and profitability were due to management seizing the opportunities created by the explosion of growth of the mobile phone market.

The next night, Monday, Margaret and I were due to dine at the Osbaldistons.

Against Copenhagen a couple of the lads were injured in the warm-up and the manager told me only just before we were due to go out.

However, writing in the American journal Science, they also reported that the statistical likelihood these were due to WIMPs was low.

Their high profile relationship ended in 2004, just months after they were due to marry - a wedding that was called off at the last moment.

They were due to leave at ten o'clock.

Barack Obama and John McCain were due to meet in Oxford, Mississippi for the first of their three eagerly awaited presidential debates.

On June 19th, a week before world leaders from the G20 were due to gather in Toronto, China at last gave ground.

His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were due to a tumor within his pituitary gland.

A thorough examination showed that the broken bags were due to improper packing, for which the suppliers should be held responsible.

Discussions within the so-called Eurogroup were due to continue on Sunday evening in Luxembourg, ministers said.

Some might say that the habits of long-privileged Caucasians were due for a change.

The company's financial losses were due to poor management.

Most of the errors were due to unnamed properties of association links and interface operations being declared as private.

A thorough examination showed that the broken bags were due to improper packing for which the suppliers are definitely responsible.

Two more flights carrying Chinese evacuees from Libya were due to arrive in Jordan later Tuesday and early Wednesday, respectively.

Some of the soldiers on board were due to meet King Mohammed this Saturday to celebrate his 12th year as king.

But it said both the profit and part of the revenue rise were due to accounting changes.

Over lunch at the Justus Lipsius building, the 27 EU heads of government were due to hold an emergency debate on north Africa.

The previously appeared requests for authrization were due to a debugging negligence, which has been by now resolved by our on-site team.

The results were due to be announced by noon on Monday, but that deadline has been missed.

The studies were due to be released at an AIDS conference in Rome next week.

If these swings were due to shallow liquidity of August markets, as some say, one might expect things soon to return to normal.

The poor crops were due to the poverty of the soil.

If the answer is yes, then his administration's failings were due less to a flawed diagnosis and more to a matter of execution.

To make that look more plausible after the no votes, it was also noted that elections were due in 2007 in both France and the Netherlands.

Of these, 156 pregnancies were due to contraceptive failure.

There were about only two hours left before they were due to arrive at South Fuzhou Station.

Three of the deaths were due to carbon dioxide poisoning from gas-power generators.

The quadrant glitches were due to friction brought about transient phenomenon.

He realized that his symptoms were due to the drug reacting with his other medication.

Other delays were due to the expenses of upgrading equipment for the new systems.

But several months before we were due to move in together, I noticed changes in our relationship.

They assumed the familiar "stop-and-go" waves of congestion were due to the sheer volume of traffic.

were due to socialization practices, artifacts, and mistakes in the research.

Leaders of the 16 countries were due to meet on Thursday during the three-day summit at L'Aquila in central Italy.

Earlier this year Moody's said $390bn of US bonds, mostly investment grade, were due to mature through to the end of 2011.

The yield of hybrids were due to various 1000-grain weight, productive panicle, seed setting rate and grain number.

The shares were due to start trading on Monday, but the flotation has been suspended until later this month.

Yet I'd be going with Ginobili if my ballot were due today because he's been the most dangerous and dependable Spur this season.

The firm's difficulties were due to bad management and in particular to overtrading.

The higher strength of male subjects were due to higher lean body weight.

Many of those errors were due to bad punch quality and misspelled COBOL words.

The airline's reissued shares were due to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on May 3rd.

Jackson and colleagues could not tell which pneumonia cases were due to flu.

Mr Roh's death came as prosecutors were due to decide whether to charge him.

As The Economist went to press, airline and union bosses were due to resume talks to resolve future problems.

My absences were due to a viral illness.

You've made many mistakes, most of which were due to your carelessness.

Union bosses were due to meet on October 21st to decide what to do once the upper house votes.

Increases in laptop and desktop PC revenue -- 17 percent and 22 percent, respectively -- were due entirely to sales to corporations.

The strong results in 2008 were due to an accumulated backlog of orders.

New renters were due to arrive that afternoon.

Most of the problems were due to human error.

France had them as recently as 2005, the Zetas stating that these riots were due in part to France's soft hand.

Of these deaths, an estimated 7. 3 million were due to coronary heart disease and 6. 2 million were due to stroke.

I went to one community event where the players were due to leave at a certain time and didn't want to go.

Hefner, 85, and Crystal Harris were due to tie the knot in front of more than 300 guests at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Others, including a still-frail Citigroup, were due to report after The Economist went to press (see article).

Shan's school fees were due, and her grandparents also needed help.

From 2001 to 2008, around half of reported cases in Bangladesh were due to human-to-human transmission.

Just before the annual rains were due, I headed off to Manila to work out why.

That year Jobs additionally gained $14. 6 million in stock options that were due to expire.

During the observation period, there were 14 deaths, 9 of which were due to progression of liver cancer.

Talks were due to resume after The Economist had gone to press.

We were due to stay here for 10 days.

I wrote down when my homework assignments were due, when I had quizzes, and when I was working each week.

The mistakes were due to mine.

According to the latest available government statistics, nearly 6, 000 deaths on U. S. highways in 2008 were due to distracted driving.

They were due on November 2, 1789, but weren't brought back.

Car crashes killed 33, 808, a third of which were due to drunk driving.

Those bids were due at 6 p. m. Wednesday.

PIMCO launched one GDP-weighted index in January last year and another two were due to be unveiled on July 8th.

But I still went to the chinese doctor for my reflux treatment and then to the library as my books were due.

The numbers were due to swell to 15, 000 before the Holy Ghost Night event concluded at 4am this morning.

I didn't know that both reports were due today.

Fire trucks were due to be replaced by portable pumps and the water supply from seawater to fresh water.

Then, about a week before the exams were due to start,

36 000 were due to solid fuels used for cooking and heating

The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil;

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The accidents were due to driving at high speed

Results Of all the 104 ventilator alarms, 27(26%) were due to problems of ventilation circuits;