Sentence examples for counter the cost from inspiring English sources

The company has also raised some prices to counter the cost of the national living wage and is considering differential pricing, such as increasing prices in London and travel hubs.

Resource-scarce Japan is almost entirely dependent on imported fuel, and it has long relied on robust exports of high-value consumer goods and industrial products, such as machine tools, to help counter the cost of importing its energy needs.

When a product moves from prescription to over the counter, the cost to the patient can often double or triple, given that over-the-counter drugs are not typically covered by health insurance.

— Jeff Gordinier The Wall Street Journal: Tyson Foods, the chicken behemoth, is already toiling to counter the spiking cost of drought-depleted corn for chicken feed.

He also had to counter the high cost of making them: each book needed to be assembled painstakingly by hand, the method still used today.

Whitbread, the owner of Premier Inn hotels and Costa Coffee, said it expected to cut spending and increase some prices to counter the "substantial" cost of the "national living wage", as it posted slowing second-quarter sales.

The combination of automated systems with modern visual intelligence aided by computer technology would properly counter the high cost of manual labor in micropropagation and open the path for efficient in vitro plant production.

Retailers have said they plan to raise prices to counter the higher costs.

The Bureau of Land Management needs to consider euthanizing wild horses or selling many of them to counter the rising costs of keeping them in long-term holding pens, according to a government report.

Administration officials argue that by lowering tariffs and other obstacles once again, they can to some extent counter the new costs of moving merchandise across borders that have arisen since Sept. 11, in effect offsetting new frictions by removing old ones.

The beer industry is experiencing a wave of consolidation, in part as a means to counter the rising costs of key ingredients like wheat, with SABMiller and Molson Coors Brewing aiming to combine their American units, while Scottish & Newcastle has agreed to be broken up by Carlsberg and Heineken.