Sentence examples for and to cushion from inspiring English sources

This helped to subsidise overseas losses, and to cushion Chrysler's enormous domestic losses.

Knights began wearing the gambeson, a quilted garment of leather or canvas, beneath their mail for additional protection and to cushion the shock of blows.

The economy was "trapped in a vicious cycle" and needed a big "jolt" to ease the flow of credit and to cushion the drop in private demand.

The shelves are low and the walls are carpeted to absorb sound and to cushion the possible impact of a running child.

"Social safety nets" are programs designed to provide a floor of protection to the poor and to cushion them from shocks, and they help reduce overall poverty.

Another way is with generous economic assistance programs, and support for the global development banks, to help others build the institutions they need to be successful at globalization and to cushion its negative social and ecological side effects.

There are enough people who think that men own football and that women are trespassing, or who consider discrimination against women in football both inevitable and inconsequential, to cushion Keys and Gray from the harshest possible consequences.

Its army of M.B.A.s will milk the monstrous franchise around Windows and Office for all it's worth and try to cushion a decline in originality and create a soft landing.

Lord Wilton held Huskisson's hands and arms steady, while Lord Colville supported his head on his knees and tried to cushion him from the vibration of the train.

She called for greater disclosure of trades and reserves to cushion against losses.

In the United States, that spending was growing even under President Herbert Hoover and helped to cushion the economy's fall.