Sentence examples for offset efforts from inspiring English sources

Homestake's chief executive, Jack Thompson, said in a statement that falling gold prices had offset efforts to improve efficiency at the 124-year-old mine.

These shortcomings were deeply rooted in the late Qing social conditions and more than offset efforts to construct and maintain the new enterprises.

Both Israel and the Palestinians have a common interest in promoting the area as a pilgrimage site to offset efforts by Jordan to draw pilgrims to its competing site on a tributary across the river.

Telephone companies AT&T and SBC Communications Tuesday posted weaker third-quarter revenue and margins as price wars, competition and slack demand offset efforts to cut costs.

In listening to some of the capabilities referenced in Carter's speech, it sounds like the DoD is moving toward something more serious and a lot less silly than the mystical "Third Offset" efforts I've previously mocked.

[Yes, and the leader in the voluntary climate market, the Chicago Climate Exchange, itself uses no till farming projects as an offset -- and their offset effort is very controversial, as this Washington Post article explains.].

Specifically, demands for ever-harsher austerity, with no offsetting effort to foster growth, have done double damage.

For weeks, Mr. Kerry has been invoking "values" in an effort to offset Republican efforts to paint him as too liberal.

He said that an eventual repatriation of these funds could help offset governments' efforts to repair the human costs of the financial crisis.

Such fields include transport, power and municipal utilities.Regrettably, in the year ahead these liberalisations may be offset by efforts to stop the economy from overheating.

Heavier reliance on income taxes would be a bad outcome, since it would offset federal efforts to get away from income taxes and increase tax competition between states.