Sentence examples for an effort to offset from inspiring English sources

For weeks, Mr. Kerry has been invoking "values" in an effort to offset Republican efforts to paint him as too liberal.

New York partisans say they suspect that San Francisco complained about Mayor Bloomberg in an effort to offset its own problems.

(In fact, in an effort to offset the risks of relying on the Saudis, America's top oil suppliers are Canada and Mexico).

The report was made a day earlier than scheduled in an effort to offset the troubling news of a downgrading of its debt rating late Friday.

The next day, it said, he "paid each rabbi $100 in an effort to offset some of the cost of the meals".

In an effort to offset the lost dial-up revenue, Mr. Armstrong has vastly expanded AOL's editorial operations by buying the Huffington Post along with the technology news blog TechCrunch and the video site 5min Media.

Here and throughout the book, Crumb seems to be making a point to flesh out the female characters in an apparent effort to offset the relentless male orientation of the text.

But Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, said he would "insist that Congress make a serious effort to offset a good portion of any new spending".

2014 was declared the "Year of reading women" in a conscious effort to offset a bias that sees far more books by male than female authors reviewed in major literary publications.

Xerox, which has been sharply cutting jobs and selling assets in a feverish effort to offset sluggish sales, said yesterday that it had earned $19 million, or a penny a share, in the fourth quarter of 2002.

Several airline unions mounted an unsuccessful legal effort to offset that shortfall with 388 million Canadian dollars in cash held by ACE Aviation Holdings, Air Canada's parent company.