Sentence examples for defraying from inspiring English sources

Without properly encoded and encrypted movie files from the studios, even the most high-tech directors will not be able to get their work in front of an audience.Mr Beck suspects that cinemas keen to start defraying the cost of their projectors might not be prepared to wait.

Both are trying to think of ways of defraying the cost, such as special levies on local businesses or on hotel beds.

By defraying costs in this way, it might then be possible to obtain regulatory approval.

An additional problem is that when everything tumbles into a giant heap it is difficult to extract material for recycling, now an important way of defraying demolition costs.Apart from dust, explosive charges can throw out fragments called "flyrock".

He accepts that the 4 per cent goes to defraying the CMS's costs, but continues: "For that 4 pence in the pound you are getting a much better service.

Now a percentage of my work hours had to go toward defraying sorority costs.

Police and soldiers had to hold back the rush at a local office of the ruling party as voters clamoured for handouts of hundreds of dollars, ostensibly to help defray housing costs.Yet the voters could not be bought.

Some costs will be defrayed through profits on its 57% stake in the park.

The "back-hauling" of goods to South Africa fish from Mozambique or strawberries from Zimbabwe helps to defray the cost of moving stuff the other way, says Dallas Langman, an executive at Pick n Pay.

Under his scheme, families would receive $5,000 to defray the cost of their health insurance.

In an especially notorious punitive expedition against Benin (in modern-day Nigeria) in 1897, the British not only plundered the kingdom's treasures but sold them to foreign collectors to defray their operational expenses (ie, the oppressed were required to finance the cost of their oppression).