Sentence examples for offset weakening from inspiring English sources
The bulk of the improvement is attributable to gains at its finance arm, which offset weakening car sales.
And many have strong budget positions, leaving room for fiscal loosening to offset weakening exports.American policymakers also have tools to cushion if not forestall the downturn.
In the meantime, however, Santander and BBVA, the two biggest commercial banks in Spain, expanded aggressively into Latin America to offset weakening domestic revenue.
It sketched a picture of a country spending huge sums at home to offset weakening demand overseas, but gave no conclusive sign of whether its stimulus program would succeed.
Spain's government has been monitoring the tussle at a time when revenues from Latin American assets have become crucial to help Spain's largest companies — from banks like Santander and BBVA to Telefónica, the telecommunications operator — offset weakening earnings at home.
Vladimir Putin, the president, is keen to open up new LNG export markets in Japan and elsewhere in Asia, partly to offset weakening sales to Europe.Yet Mr Abiru says considerable doubt still hangs over an LNG accord with Russia, not least because it is not clear how expensive gas from the Russian Far East will be.
Since then, he has actually accelerated Santander's expansion during the financial crisis to take advantage of falling valuations and help offset a weakening domestic market.
Since the onset of the European financial crisis, Santander has continued to try and take advantage of falling valuations in order to buy assets overseas and offset a weakening domestic market.
"An acceleration of growth in the vast services sector and an on-going construction boom offset a weakened performance in manufacturing in August," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit.
But this should not hurt GDP growth too much because other factors should help offset the weakening.
In the manufacturing sector, the rate of business activity in the Midwest rose in July, as somewhat stronger new orders offset a weakening environment for labor.
