Sentence examples for offset price increases from inspiring English sources

Moreover, drug companies would have to pay rebates to the state to offset price increases that exceed the rate of inflation.

A rational approach would be to place a fee on carbon production that reflects its costs to society (with proceeds rebated to individual households to offset price increases) so that the free market can work its wonders.

So these deductions have had a valuable place to at least offset price increases in paying the tax collector; affording the cost of a home; and paying the interest charged by mortgage companies to finance mortgages on individual residences.

Wynn Van Bussman, a Chrysler economist, calculates that industrywide rebates and incentives averaged $952 a car last month, more than offsetting price increases on some new car models.

Though the highest-priced journals are in the sciences, libraries have had to offset those price increases by buying fewer books, often in other disciplines like literature and the humanities, association officials and librarians at the University of California said.

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

Using it to offset temporary price increases can discourage conservation and run down reserves that will be needed in any future crisis.

Mississippi tries to lay its ghosts Freewheeling Mark Sanford, surfboarding revolutionary ReprintsThat decline in demand would be compounded if cigarette companies attempted to offset steep price increases by using more cheap foreign tobacco.

It would imply that health-spending growth in the private sector can be constrained only through substantial reductions in the use of health care — either through higher cost-sharing by patients or other managed-care techniques — reductions that would be all the deeper because they would be partly offset by price increases.

George Bodenheimer, president of ESPN, says that Disney will sell cable and satellite operators new products the ESPN flagship network in high definition, a 24-hour Spanish television network, ESPN Broadband, ESPN video-on-demand and more to offset smaller price increases.

The company blamed lower earnings on higher feed and fuel costs related to its Jennie-O turkey products, which couldn't be offset by price increases.