Sentence examples for offset modestly from inspiring English sources

There may be little recovery in later years, because falling prices will offset modestly growing sales.

Mecom said it benefitted from being able to increase cover and subscription prices to "offset modestly declining volumes [of sales]".

FFR measurement led to increased costs of pressure wire use (+£279) and cath lab time (+£57) which was offset modestly by savings in PCI (−£92), CABG (−£32) and medication use (−£17).

David Lereah, the group's chief economist, said, "The momentum gained from low mortgage interest rates will carry strong home sales into 2003, with an improving economy offsetting modestly higher mortgage interest rates as the year progresses".

But we are persuaded by the report's core finding that the benefits of selling gas to other countries would more than offset the modestly negative impact of higher prices for domestic users of the fuel.

Republicans in the Senate particularly objected to proposed cutbacks in the school tax relief, which modestly offsets homeowners' property taxes.

[G1.] Major Stock Indicators Show Modest Gains Stocks rose modestly as solid earnings from companies offset worries about inflation.

Leaving aside the cost of financial rescues and safety-net programs like unemployment insurance, federal spending has risen only modestly — and this rise has been largely offset by cutbacks at the state and local level.

But for two years America's central bank, the Federal Reserve, was able to offset much of the harm to growth, while unemployment rose only modestly.All that changed in September 2008 when Lehman Brothers went bust, triggering acute financial panic.

The index has fallen only modestly since the start of this year, because the stronger dollar and lower share prices have offset lower short-term interest rates.Stiff leversIn previous economic cycles, as much as two-fifths of the total impact of interest-rate cuts on GDP, on average, has come through the stockmarket and the dollar two channels that now appear to be blocked.

Stock prices rose modestly on Friday, trimming the second weekly drop so far this year for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, as gains in commodity and energy companies amid rising oil prices offset an unexpected decline in new-home sales.