The phrase "ability to offset" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capacity to counterbalance or compensate for something, often in financial or environmental contexts.
Example: "The company's ability to offset its carbon emissions through renewable energy projects is commendable."
Alternatives: "capacity to counterbalance" or "potential to compensate".
"The problem is that if you pay too much for it, its ability to offset the inflationary effect is diminished".
It's this ability to offset precisely drawn objects with the bustling unpredictability of human life that makes Scharf's work so engaging.
People like me, Brad DeLong, etc. are skeptical about the Fed's ability to offset the effects of fiscal austerity, but we do want it to try.
While that result represented a 44percentt decline from the same period a year earlier, it nonetheless exceeded most forecasts and left investors impressed by the company's ability to offset hefty credit losses with higher lending margins and fees.
Michael R. Darby, a finance professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, puts it this way: "Do the products have the ability to offset risk through a true hedge?
Specifically, the House's version, which was passed on Oct. 24, contains the core of what business wants: elimination of the alternative minimum tax; the ability to offset current taxable income with losses going back five years, instead of the current two; faster depreciation schedules; and a continuation of the tax break on foreign profits of financial services firms.
Of course, the show's ability to deftly offset its weirder elements didn't draw enough of an audience to give it a long life ("Modern Family" has echoes of "AD" all over it, but it's successful in large part because it does the same things over and over again).
Exercise has been proposed as an aid to smoking cessation for women because of its ability to help offset weight gain during cessation and to reduce concern regarding weight gain [ 12, 13].
This study was designed to test the ability of carnosine to offset metabolic disturbances induced by Schistosoma mansoni parasitism.
Some Earth System models incorporate biogeochemical constraints such as those imparted by the nitrogen (N) cycle on plant productivity and respiration and thus ecosystem carbon exchange (Thornton et al. 2007; Sokolov et al. 2008; Bonan and Levis 2010; Bala et al. 2013), but these models may still overestimate the ability of ecosystems to offset human emissions (Piao et al. 2013).
In the short run, at least, the growth in demand exceeds the growth in the economy's ability to provide offsetting increases in supply, creating the potential for inflationary bottlenecks.
