Sentence examples for was to offset the from inspiring English sources

The idea was to offset the decline in revenue from overseas calling by expanding the company's position in the fast-growing Indonesian cellular market.

A major challenge for Latvia in the early 1990s was to offset the aging of its population, a serious problem that had existed even before the country's independence and that was the result largely of birth rates that were not high enough to ensure population replacement.

The group's strategy was to offset the Indian lobby by targeting members of the Congressional committees that focus on foreign affairs with private briefings and events, staging activities that would draw media attention and otherwise to elevate the issue of Kashmir — the disputed region between India and Pakistan that each country controls in part but claims entirely — in Washington.

A second, bigger writeoff, for $1.6 billion, was to offset the production problems, mostly on the new 737NGs.

As a film composer you are frequently taking a cue from the drama on screen or interpreting it sonically, but here the challenge was to offset the mundanity and also enhance the hypnotic appeal".

As Cutt argues, "the intent of these (as indeed of all Evangelical texts) was to offset the deistic tendency to consider knowledge an end in itself".

"It's to offset the cost of milk, meats and cheeses," he said.

The rebates are to offset the additional cost of installing energy-saving features.

The aim is to offset the high freight costs Ethiopian businesses pay by streamlining the entire transport process.

One way to do so is to offset the current account deficit with a surplus in the capital account, which includes items such as investment from abroad.

The more restrictions and the longer the duration before payout the larger it must be to offset the net present value of a vested compensation plan.