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Is there anything people can do to kind of defray those costs?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2008] Reference
For now, the ads will defray only a fraction of the cost. From Wordnik.com. [New Flights of Fancy] Reference
Players pass the hat during every game to help defray expenses. From Wordnik.com. [A College League Takes Root in the Hamptons] Reference
Count was unable to defray the expense the wreck was abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
Montpensier wished to defray the expenses of the fourth, and Queen. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
After the patient's death, the assets could be sold to defray costs. From Wordnik.com. [Slow-Motion Solutions] Reference
I will defray all the expenses, and will pay the reward I offered, too. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Woman] Reference
In order to defray the expenses at home, she raised poultry for the market. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
He had received the money to defray the traveling-expenses of both companies. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
No. They will pass along the savings to themselves, to defray operating costs. From Wordnik.com. [Big-Box Stores: Big Winners In Swipe-Fee Reform] Reference
A new duty-law and others for raising money to defray the various expences of government were passed. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
For several years preceding the supply of fish had scarcely sufficed to defray the expense of catching. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
Taxpayers will see billions flow into state coffers - money to defray the medical costs of treating smokers. From Wordnik.com. [Ifs, Ands And Butts] Reference
Every one worked for it in some way or other, and believed it was an act of religious reparation to defray the expense. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
The collections from the meetings were to defray my traveling expenses, which would amount to over one hundred dollars. From Wordnik.com. [How I Know God Answers Prayer The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time] Reference
When we paraded with the prisoner handcuffed, the sergeant-major handed me my instructions and money to defray expenses. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle] Reference
The new legislation allows for the creation of loan loss reserve funds in order to help defray the costs of any defaults. From Wordnik.com. [Andrea Kovach: Payday Lenders Beware: Financial Reform Law Promotes Alternative Small Dollar Loans] Reference
Public-interest groups are grumbling over some of Bill Clinton's methods to defray the cost of his Inaugural extravaganza. From Wordnik.com. [Bash Bucks] Reference
Both candidates propose to defray these costs primarily by rolling back the tax cuts for those in the top income brackets. From Wordnik.com. [They've Got You Covered?] Reference
Advisers selling "retirement" class shares, whose 12 (b) 1 fees defray the costs of 401 (k) recordkeeping, would be similarly pinched. From Wordnik.com. [A Fund Fee That Keeps On Taking] Reference
Working part time during the school term and in the summer can also help to defray expenses -- and it will look good on your résumé. From Wordnik.com. [Six Things To Know Before Taking Out A Student Loan] Reference
In order to defray his expenses she gave him a few bars of gold, which he could exchange for the current money at the banks on the way. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
She understood Anne's growing despair as time went on, and the prospect of earning enough money to defray her college expenses grew less. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
BP is paying for the WildCare workers 'plane fare, lodging and food; a grant from PG&E is helping to defray some WildCare rescuer expenses. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Spiegelman: Call of the WildCare] Reference
However, part of the fund was used to defray some of the cost of replacing open-flame curing devices, located inside curing bins, with heat exchangers. From Wordnik.com. [Letters: Sharply Divided Views On Afghan War Crim] Reference
As the fees mount, officials say the Clintons may establish a legal-defense fund to defray costs-a move that could interfere with re-election fund raising. From Wordnik.com. [The High Cost of Scandal] Reference
Kercher's father, John, a journalist who has written about this case for his British newspaper, is writing a book about the case to help defray legal costs. From Wordnik.com. [Nuclear-Family Fallout] Reference
The agreement calls on South Korea to defray the costs of the redeployment by selling real estate once occupied by U.S. troops, much of which is prime acreage near urban areas. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
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