"strength" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Like wrestlers, they were struggling for new holds, Kelk's strength offset by Verne's elusiveness.
- These strengths are offsetting a 50 percent drop in orders for truck engines, and a marked slowdown in demand for construction equipment so far this year.
- To bulls on the stock market, the economic strength and outlook for rising profits more than offset the risk of higher interest rates.
- Usually, executives say, strength in one of these businesses had offset weakness in another.
- "The stage was set for a bad day, but then strength in technology offset it," said Thomas M. Galvin, chief investment officer at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
- They believed that strength in one chip market would offset a downturn in another.
- The data on durable goods were a mixed bag, with the strength in military and civilian aircraft offsetting the drag from motor vehicles.
- But the law had gained an ally whose strength could offset a score of foemen.
- According to Kirchoff, "we assumed that our strengths and weaknesses would offset each other.
- The company reported a 25 percent rise in operating profit, as strength in Cegetel, a rival to France Télécom, offset weak performances in its American entertainment businesses.
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