Sentence examples for eager to compensate from inspiring English sources

The Japanese league has lost many of its best players to MLB, and its teams would surely be eager to compensate by signing Cuban talent.

Scarcity became a factor in the price rise, stepped up by the auction houses eager to compensate the dwindling numbers of consignments by raising the value of individual lots.

It used to be commonplace, music being the obvious career option for earnest, over-educated types light on social skills but eager to compensate by being really very clever (hello Morrissey, Thom Yorke et al).

"You just can't ignore that," Mr. Sherman explained to reporters later, saying the televised trial, which led to Mr. Simpson's acquittal, could have left potential Skakel jurors eager to compensate for what some might have perceived as an unjust verdict in the Simpson case.

Over-eager to compensate for the Savile debacle, a BBC programme then hinted that an elderly Tory politician, Lord McAlpine, was another child abuser which wasn't true.

The decision is also drawing ire from parents, who are not eager to pay extra to compensate for the salaries of the Chinese teachers.

Phil Mustard dredged up some useful, if vain, late shots, just as Gordon Muchall had done earlier with rather more elegance; and Graeme Bridge was still there at the end, eager, it seemed, to compensate for those runs he conceded in the heat of the second day.

At each new school I arrived eager to make, by means of my insolent attitude, new friends to compensate for the loss of others.

It's a symptom of a larger news industry crisis, where publishers struggling to compensate for dropping display ad rates a few years ago were eager to suckle on added referral traffic from Facebook's News Feed.

Driven hard, the Huracan is predictable and eager, but there's more gradation to it than something like a GT-R, which uses pure speed to compensate for driver miscues.

"You learn to compensate.