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Improving global economic conditions have prompted raw materials cost increases. We have seen escalating raw material, energy and transportation costs over an extended period.

Peter Thomas

All this was prompted in the last nine months by a decision in July. We believe a marriage is between one man and one woman.

Keith Leonard

The governor is very optimistic that the negotiations will get off on a positive foot. This is a plan B prompted by the interest by business leaders and other community leaders to have a voice if the budget process derails.

Kevin Hall

The small increase in mortgage rates in November may have prompted many prospective homebuyers to jump into market in order to take advantage of pre-approved mortgage rates.

Gregory Klump

Given the surging demand of energy prompted by China's rapid economic growth, Russia would like to increase energy co-operation oil and natural gas in particular with China.

Sergei Razov

I'm not sure what prompted the move, but it certainly removes a barrier [to a buyout].

Bill Armstrong

Expectations of lower oil demand prompted funds selling because Hurricane Katrina has a negative effect in slowing down the U.S. economy.

Keiichi Sano

Paul Hoffman had some initial suggestions and prompted us. Paul Hoffman was playing devil's advocate. He was saying, 'Show us, the political appointees who make policy, why do you do things the way you do?' It was a starting point. We're a long way from that now. They have drafted a new raw draft.

David Barna

It's a continuation of the rally we've had from earlier in the week, which was prompted by the release of the Fed notes. Today's lower-than-expected employment numbers have continued the rally.

Stephen Massocca

That's what prompted us to pursue that case to the prosecutor. He agreed and brought charges.

Sam Pailca

The Christian doctrine of sin in its classical form offends both rationalists and moralists by maintaining the seemingly absurd position that man sins inevitably and by a fateful necessity but that he is nevertheless to be held responsible for actions which are prompted by an ineluctable [inescapable] fate.

Reinhold Niebuhr

I wasn't sure of this after losing the first set, but I remained positive. The first-set loss actually prompted me to become more aggressive.

Mara Santangelo

I would have asked Muscogee County to send deputies today, ... but a cloud of gas over Orleans Parish prompted them to withdraw some officers from that area and they asked me not to send any more now.

Terry Norris

The focus ... was Tang's speech, which was pretty much in line with what the market had expected so investors weren't prompted to either buy or sell.

Philip Chan

Staples instituted this policy to help enforce the warning label on the can. Our cashiers are prompted and reminded to ask for identification when a customer goes to buy a canned air product.

Owen Davis

There is a lot of speculation out there about what prompted the move. Some have said there may be another hedge fund blow-up out there.

Michelle Laughlin

Uncertainties over how Toshiba will run the nuclear power business and its financing scheme for the acquisition prompted investors to sell.

Hideo Mizutani

The Federal Reserve raising interest rates earlier this month prompted financial institutions to slightly increase interest checking rates.

Randy Rosen

Her inquiry prompted it and this was something we could do without the legislation.

Julie Baker

The GDP figure was within our estimates and there was no surprise there. That lack of surprise may have prompted profit- taking.

Tsuyoshi Shimizu

We've had a number of people approach us about them to have initial discussions and that's probably what prompted us to go more public with it.

Tom Morrow

The news on U.S. Steel has prompted some buying of steelmakers. You cannot completely rule out the possibility of takeovers of Japanese companies.

Koji Uchida

So much of the evidence presented to the grand jurors was 'blacked out' that it prompted one of the grand jurors to ask the prosecution, 'Did you guys get any sleep over the weekend?'

Robert Sanger

That in the early 1990s prompted moderates to leave in droves. In 2000, former US President Jimmy Carter left, despite being a three-generation Southern Baptist, complaining that the convention had adopted policies that ''violate the basic premises of my Christian faith.

Richard Land

It's the wrong number on the wrong line item. I doubt it happened here, but wherever it happened, you would think someone at some level who is accumulating the data would say, 'Hey, that's a significant difference.' It should have prompted a call.

Ed Goble