Sentence examples for businesses to offset from inspiring English sources

"It's got a lot of stable businesses to offset some of this other stuff," he said.

Indeed, many of them have become heavily reliant on their Latin American businesses to offset dwindling revenues at home.

In exchange, Mr. Clinton agreed to $30 billion in tax breaks for small businesses, to offset the increased wages.

These allow businesses to offset a proportion of their spending on equipment, property and other physical assets against their taxable profits, thus reducing their tax bill.

In other, similar cases, charities that received nonvoting stakes in privately held companies through gifts of stock used large losses they had incurred on unrelated businesses to offset taxes for other shareholders.

In 2001 the government introduced a tax break to encourage R&D, entitling small and medium businesses to offset 150% of related costs - including wage bills and materials - against tax.

Goldman and other banks are increasingly looking overseas for business to offset a slowdown at home.

For the insurance companies, it promised enough new business to offset the cost of covering Americans with pre-existing conditions.

A spokesman for Three said the company was entitled, like any other British business, to offset historic losses against tax.

The move comes as Yahoo is trying to build its corporate business to offset a slump in online advertising.

Boeing is a $50 billion company that has been expanding into the military business to offset declines in commercial aviation.