Sentence examples for offset the growing from inspiring English sources

For the Fletchers, efforts to offset the growing costs of e-commerce was met with less than favourable reactions from customers.

He offset the growing opposition of the Danish nobility by calling a meeting of the Danish estates (1468), a precedent followed by his immediate successors.

Minaj Patel, 43, who owns a dry-cleaning store in Englewood, N.J., said he had planned to raise his prices next month to offset the growing cost of heating oil, which is used to run his store's presses and machines.

During visits to Southeast Asian nations, Mr. Abe has tried to cast Japan as a reliable partner that can help offset the growing influence of China, which has been embroiled in heated territorial disputes with many nations in the region.

The United States is counting on the deployment to serve as part of the Obama administration's plan to increase the American military presence in the region and offset the growing strength of China and a nuclear-armed North Korea.

Japan has been making an effort to attract more overseas students, but the relatively small number of foreigners is not enough to offset the growing number of university spaces.

Cable television dramas and movies helped raise News Corporation's revenues by 2 percent in the second quarter, offsetting the growing costs related to a phone hacking scandal at the company's British newspaper unit.

More familiar dishes include excellent renditions of Sichuan cold noodles ($3.95), with a slight sweetness, which offsets the growing heat; delicate wontons stuffed with pork and served in a spicy red oil ($3.95); and fiery dan dan noodles ($3.95).

Elsewhere, we have argued that the response of life cycle saving when fertility and mortality are low will lead to an increased capital labor ratio (a "second demographic dividend") which offsets the growing burden of old age dependency, provided that old age is not too generously supported through public or familial transfer programs (Mason and Lee 2006).

As a result, one of the heralded advantages of airline consolidation — the ability to raise fares — has been offset by the growing muscle of the low-cost carriers, said Darin Lee, an economist at LECG, a consulting firm.

Also, for many American veterans, visiting South Korea for the first time in decades, the realization that it had matured into a prosperous democracy was somewhat offset by the growing anti-Americanism here and the continued partitioning of the peninsula.