Sentence examples for increase to counter from inspiring English sources

OPEC indicated on Monday that its members would consider a production increase to counter a drop in world supplies and trim prices that are above the group's target range.

Talks with the teachers' union have proven the most sensitive, as it has been pushing for large wage increases to counter what the union says is an exodus of teachers.

The targets were increased to counter a higher than expected number of withdrawals prior to the DAFNE courses.

That gives advocates of the tax increase ammunition to counter the views of opponents that Japan should delay or water down the increase to prevent the economy from faltering again.

Volkswagen will not increase incentives to counter declining sales in the world's largest car market, Mr. Pötsch said.

Yet Beijing maintains far more control over investment trends than Washington does, so it has greater flexibility to increase investment to counter a sharp downturn.

The scale of workers' equity has not increased enough to counter two bigger trends that have dramatically increased inequality of incomes in America over the past 30 years: the widening gap in pay between the top 1% and the rest, and the overall squeeze in the share of national income going to wages.

While his administration began increasing budgets to counter the threat, many of Mr. Clinton's requests were cut by his own Office of Management and Budget or the Congress, which remained skeptical.

Beddington has called for increased production to counter a "perfect storm" of food shortages that could become a global threat by 2030.

Also, as many governments have increased spending to counter the threat of emerging diseases and bioterrorism, many laboratories have hired more people.

Many of the available protocols are derived from treatments for medulloblastomas and other brain tumors, modified, with increased toxicity, to counter A.T.R.T.'s vicious malignancy.