Sentence examples for to offset the slowdown from inspiring English sources

"It's hard to offset the slowdown in the largest projects in North America and Japan," Ericsson's chief executive, Hans Vestberg, said in a telephone interview on Thursday.

The big question now for Chinese policy makers is how much they are willing to ramp up government infrastructure spending and lending by state-owned banks to offset the slowdown.

A spokesman for the mayor, John Gallagher, said that the extra money being pocketed by the city in gas taxes as prices go up is not nearly enough to offset the slowdown in revenue from commercial real-estate transactions and profits on Wall Street.

But, after three years of sluggish sales, with the wireless industry in the doldrums, the forecast seems also to suggest that rising demand for cellphones in Asia has begun to offset the slowdown in the near-saturated European and United States markets.

European carmakers have expanded in emerging markets to try to offset the slowdown in the U.S. and Europe.

China is trying to stoke up domestic demand, to offset the slowdown exporters are experiencing, especially from customers in Europe hit by the region's debt crisis.

The company became the latest publisher to issue an earnings warning and to cut costs to offset the increasing slowdown in ad spending -- especially compared with levels a year earlier, when many Internet and technology companies were spending heavily.

But a majority of voters in four resource-rich eastern departments that have declared their autonomy rejected the constitution, which may presage future conflicts.Canada's Conservative minority government announced an expansionary federal budget involving the first fiscal deficit since 1996, together with a bigger buy-up of mortgage-backed securities, in an effort to offset the economic slowdown.

He expects global mining, energy markets and infrastructure building in developing markets to remain strong enough to offset the significant slowdown seen in North America, Europe and Japan.

To offset the construction slowdown, the group has diversified with mixed results–into satellite communications, financial services, industrial and power projects and petroleum, chemicals and mining.

But EADS cannot rely, as Boeing does, on military sales to offset the commercial aviation slowdown.