The official reason was that Iran's foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi, was too busy to entertain Mr Cook.
An official reason for the initial rejection wasn't immediately available, cemetery officials said.
Their official reason for this about-turn certainly contains some of the truth.
This, or so went his official reason, was in protest against the back-channel talks going on in Sweden between Israeli and Palestinian officials.
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Calderon's official reason for the freeze was to ease the impact of rising global food costs on households, as well as the broader economy.
Health reasons may be the official reason, but it would not be surprising to learn Mr Harrison was offered a job or peerage to fall on his sword.
Their official reason for building up a cash hoard in the first place was to create a reserve for Microsoft's legal battles, all stemming from its alleged monopolistic abuses.
The official reason was a shortage of domestic supply.
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The official reason for the bridge is that it will bring all manner of new economic opportunities to the residents of Awaji and inhabitants on the much larger, and equally impoverished, island of Shikoku.
No official reason is given for this, but one probable cause is that hiring female staff would put a lot of men out of work - not a popular move in a country where 13% of men are unemployed.
Deutsche Telecom (nyse: DT - news - people )has given no official reason for his resignation but it is almost certainly linked to his previous tenure as head of the communications division of Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ), rather than his performance at T-Systems.
Questioned by members of the London Assembly's budget committee, David Lunts, the mayor's lead housing official, said one reason for lower figures this year was that there had been a deliberate "acceleration" of building last year.
For this reason, all official acts of the church are announced in Latin, as was the case Monday.
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The official would not discuss the reason for the change in assessment.
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The family said they were told that it was because he wasn't a U.S. citizen during the war, although an Arlington official said Monday that the reason may have had more to do with the fact that he wasn't a member of the American military at the time of his heroics.
' I thought he was a school official who was pretty angry for some reason, so I walked away shook up.
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The official said there was no single overriding reason, and discouraged speculation that a major imminent development had forced the cancellation.
Nibet believes this is one reason why the deal will get the official green light.
The official was speaking on condition of anonymity for the same reason as the other two officials.
We have no reason to believe at this point that any official U.S. government email accounts were accessed.
And, as always, if for some reason Cobbler cannot fulfill his duties as the Official White House Turkey, Gobbler will be waiting in the wings.
An American official familiar with the negotiations told me that the more likely reason the discussions were suspended was that Taliban leaders were concerned about mobilizing their foot soldiers for the 2012 fighting season.
The reason, Simpson told CNN: A Louisiana state police official told them not to come.
One U.S. official said the judge cited the intense television coverage of the capture as one reason for initiating the criminal prosecution.
"While we are still looking at the message closely, there is no reason to believe any specific or credible threat is contained in it, " the official said.
To do this in your official capacity in your own name and get away with it is incomprehensibly remote from the realm of reason.
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One reason for the promising outlook in 2013 is a favorable economic climate in China, an association official said on Friday.
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One reason for their success, the researchers suggest, is that the schools, mindful of their positions in official league tables, were keen to keep these valuable clients.
Then it unveiled so-called Sleekbooks, which basically hold the same promise as Ultrabooks, except that for whatever reason (AMD processors, a too-thick chassis) they don't meet Intel's official Ultrabook requirements.
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