Sentence examples for action to offset from inspiring English sources

And that's his justification for affirmative action: to offset privilege, level the playing field, open doors of opportunity that were bolted shut for decades.

"We are in the worst trading environment the industry has ever faced and must take action to offset the combined effects of the continuing global economic downturn, weakened consumer confidence and high fuel prices," British Airways said in a statement.

The paper also provides a tentative answer to the apparent tendency of spending cuts to be less contractionary than tax increases: it looks as if central banks take more aggressive action to offset spending cuts than tax hikes, reflecting some combination of inflation concerns, belief that spending cuts are more durable, and (the paper doesn't say this) bankerly ideology.

Finally, we must convince China to let the yuan float, or take punitive action to offset their unfair advantage.

The company said it needed to take appropriate action to offset the declining oil price and increasing operating costs.

Transhumant mobility and increases in herd size during favourable seasons for pastoralists are also a necessary action to offset the potential high losses resulting from extremely unpredictable climates (Behnke 1983;Ellis and Swift 1988;Sandford 1983;Scoones 1994).

Now, more so than ever before, it is important that we think differently, as we are with our Continental partnership, and take aggressive actions to offset these unprecedented fuel prices and strengthen our competitiveness.

The loophole is known as portfolio hedging, a strategy that essentially allows banks to view an investment portfolio as a whole and take actions to offset the risks of the entire portfolio.

Specifically, we suggest actions to offset the costs facing landowners under new pieces of legislation, such as alien-clearing requirements and a property tax.

Another possibility is that common genetic variation in ovine SPRN driven by an unstable DNA tract will apply selection pressure for PrP variants with altered physiological activity to offset the action of the SPRN variants.

Bruntland said she could understand why people felt disillusioned and why many participants felt powerless, but she said strong action was needed to offset a degree of environmental decline that is pushing at planetary boundaries — with an impact on food security and commodity prices.