1.   Federal subsidies can offer rental assistance, convertible to a mortgage payment, to low income earners.

2.   For one thing, I went around the company offering expert assistance to people.

3.   Four pilot Workstart schemes will be started, offering financial assistance to employers who take on people who have been long-term unemployed.

4.   Given the option, counselors wanted to offer more assistance to students with personal problems.

5.   If help is required you will probably be asked, although there is nothing wrong with offering your assistance.

6.   So, every time I am offered assistance, I get irritated.

7.   The company has a toll-free number that offers technical assistance to anyone who needs it.

8.   The dinner guest arrived early and came Marching into the kitchen to inspect the proceedings, under the guise of offering assistance.

9.   They hurried there but the consulate could offer no assistance.