Sentence examples for bid to offset from inspiring English sources
In parallel with the April increase, the government spent an extra ¥5.5 trillion $51.4 billionn) in a bid to offset its effects.
Worse, in a bid to offset the decline in music sales, companies raised the price of their CDs, which only increased the incentive to download them illegally.
Last year, it revamped its Saturday edition to become a weekend title also available on Sundays in a bid to offset the decline in circulation.
Airlines have cut jobs and reduced capacity in the last two years in a bid to offset declining revenue as the recession battered business and consumer demand for air travel.
President Bush is expected to allow airlines again to make fuller use of military airspace over the holiday in a bid to offset delays caused by foul weather and flight congestion.
Though a few junk-bond issuers have tapped the market, part of the demand may have come from funds "gambling for resurrection", ie, taking a big risk for high yields in a desperate bid to offset losses elsewhere.For each scrap of good news, there is plenty of the bad stuff.
DT is also trying to look to the future and build out new services, like its multi-screen entertainment business, in a bid to further offset declines in its traditional retail phone business.
Second of all, it's yet another sign of how newspapers are continuing to downsize, cut expenses and outsource operations in a bid to save money to offset their declines in readership and ad revenues, and their costly print operations, but they're doing so in a way that is eating into areas that once used to give them very healthy margins and actually drive revenues.
The Druyun episode is the latest in a series of ethical lapses at Boeing as it bid for more military business to offset declines in commercial aircraft orders.
To many here, it was bad enough that local officials followed other cities, like Baltimore, Miami and San Francisco, in soliciting bids for a stadium name to offset the costs.
To bid competitively for city contracts, the nonprofit must sell salvaged materials to offset its costs.
