Sentence examples for intended to offset from inspiring English sources

The buyback is intended to offset declining values of stock-based compensation programs.

The money was partly intended to offset budget cuts that states are making.

It is intended to offset the Taliban's ability to shut down the official Afghan services, seemingly at will.

The total cost of the program, apparently intended to offset unrest, was estimated to be $36 billion.

Begun in 1999 under Mr. DiFrancesco's predecessor, Christie Whitman, the rebate program is intended to offset rising property taxes.

The effect was reduced by $150 million through hedges, contracts intended to offset fuel price increases, the airline said.

England implemented its "Speenhamland" system – a form of outdoor relief intended to offset rising bread prices – during the Napoleonic Wars.

India's last drought came in 2009, but the broader economy was shielded because of government stimulus measures intended to offset the global financial meltdown.

Nor is the initiative intended to "offset any issues" that come up between consumers and Nike in areas like labor, Mr. Lane said.

But the law, intending to offset the advantages of incumbency, allows him a budget of only $255,000.

Having booked seats on the plane (whose carbon emissions they intend to offset by planting trees), Matt Wootton and Jim Killock proceeded to unfurl a poorly edited and charmingly pragmatic banner reading "Better Trains; Less Planes / Gwell Trenau, Nag Awyrennau: 2nd Vote Green" on the tarmac.