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owing to

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owing to
because of something; due to the fact of something. Owing to the lateness of the evening, I must go home. We were late owing to the heavy traffic.


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A Wolf found great difficulty in getting at the sheep owing to the vigilance of the shepherd and his dogs.
And after this interval, variety a1 is supposed in the diagram to have produced variety a2, which will, owing to the principle of divergence, differ more from (A) than did variety a1.
In this fragment, entitled "Underground," this person introduces himself and his views, and, as it were, tries to explain the causes owing to which he has made his appearance and was bound to make his appearance in our midst.
 
 
 
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