Sentence examples for was offset by rising from inspiring English sources

In the years prior to the crisis, households accumulated a lot of debt, which was offset by rising asset prices.

Sir Stephen Nickell, the OBR's main economic adviser, said rising debts were offset by rising asset prices, which meant the household balance sheet "is in an unprecedented healthy state in terms of the ratio of assets to liabilities".

will be offset by rising public spending on infrastructure and security".

The higher prices that production companies receive for selling oil and gas can be offset by rising costs for extraction.

Gun homicide rates have actually fallen in recent years, but those gains have been offset by rising gun suicide rates.

But until now, the impact of lower equity wealth in Britain has largely been offset by rising housing wealth.

The recent fall in the prices of durable goods has been offset by rising prices of services; so outside Japan, average prices continue to rise, albeit at the slowest pace for decades.

But customers still grouse about high bills, since the initial savings of about 20percentt after LIPA took over from Lilco have been offset by rising oil and gas prices.

Previous falls in the oil price have been offset by rising production, but Syrian production has now peaked and will steadily decline over the next few years unless big new finds are made.

So far this has been offset by rising productivity growth, but the 12-month rate of growth in unit labour costs has started to edge up (see chart 3).

It will certainly cool, relative to a world in which the circulation remains robust — but that will be offset by rising average temperatures due to global warming, says Rahmstorf.