Sentence examples for be likely to absorb from inspiring English sources

Not even the free-spending Los Angeles Dodgers would be likely to absorb the full burden of Rodriguez's remaining contract.

Together, they are likely to absorb roughly 40 percent of the industry's mortgage-related losses.

Just which parts of the military budget are likely to absorb all those cuts?

Citigroup, by contrast, has suffered more than $40 billion in write-offs and is likely to absorb billions more.

Haggling in Brussels is likely to absorb much of the attention of Irish ministers, leaving less time for pressing national concerns such as debt relief.

In a blow to Alistair Darling's ambition of curbing the bonus culture, City sources said major banks are likely to absorb the cost of the one-off tax in order to maintain the depth of their considerable bonus pools.

If, as widely expected, the jobs report shows another monthly decline, markets are likely to absorb it as a sign of an economy that has effectively slipped into a recession despite the modestly reassuring positive figures from the Commerce Department.

It estimated the cost to be £1.4 billion ($2.6 billion).Because Katrina-related claims are likely to absorb so much capacity from the global reinsurance industry, premiums are expected to rise not just in America, but worldwide.

No major country has grown rich without one and nothing else is likely to absorb the labour of the 250m youngsters set to reach working age in the next 15 years.

The United States keeps large numbers of iodine tablets ready in case of a leak because people taking small, daily quantities of iodine by tablet are likely to absorb less radioactive iodine.

The monthly jobs report usually gets a lot of attention, but the September numbers due on Friday are likely to absorb an outsize amount of oxygen because of the election just over a month away.