Sentence examples for seeks to offset from inspiring English sources

The fund holds 50to7070 stocks and, because it seeks to offset gains with losses, distributed no capital gains in 1998 and 1999.

Paul sometimes seeks to offset this principled stance by reiterating his respect for civil-rights heroes like Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks, even as he maintains that their political opponents were right.

What is today a tight configuration huddled around France and Germany that seeks to offset American power will on May 1 become an amalgam of 25 highly diverse states, including eight strongly pro-American former Soviet satellites.

According to tax experts, Philip Hammond is considering raiding employee benefits such as health checks, parking and gyms in Wednesday's autumn statement, as he seeks to offset his possible spending plans.

The war may also have stymied Georgia's aspirations to become an alternative supply route for energy consumed by the European Union, which seeks to offset its vulnerability to Moscow's pipeline politics.

The third model uses finished-product average demands as minimal requirements to satisfy, and seeks to offset the effect of demand variability through the use of planned capacity cushion levels at each stage of the production system.

(To generate equity, developers sell the tax credits to corporations seeking to offset profits).

Under that plan, the city would seek to offset criticism by building a new park nearby.

Mr. Takenaka also promises that the government will seek to offset the pain it inflicts.

Now, cruise companies are seeking to offset that tainted image by offering "voluntourism" experiences.

The prime minister sought to offset the bitter medicine of austerity with promises of initiatives to increase growth.