Sentence examples for amounts to offset from inspiring English sources

However, instead of asking borrowers to deposit gradually increasing amounts to offset increasing loan sizes over time, we took the unusual approach of asking for the entire deposit up front.

This is due to the similarities in symptoms to an outside observer—"vomiting" following food intake which, in long-term patients, may include ingesting copious amounts to offset malnutrition, and a lack of willingness to expose their condition and its symptoms.

Last year, the government paid insurance companies $1.3 billion, and Ms. Gillibrand's amendment would have reduced that amount to offset a $4.5 billion cut to the food stamp program.

It offers what it calls a "fresh start" package — either some furniture or an amount to offset a child's everyday living costs for the first 12 months of home ownership.

Two deaths caused by TB occur in India every 3 minutes, and the global TB drug market is $300 million, an insufficient amount to offset the risk of traditional drug development.

Mr. Specter won just three counties, including Philadelphia, but not by the huge amounts needed to offset the wins by Representative Joe Sestak everywhere else in the state.

The former exceed the latter by amounts necessary to offset the sums of positive CCI values.

Researchers analyzed the effect of adding enough aerosols to block 2% of the sun's light from reaching the ground, the amount needed to offset a carbon dioxide concentration twice that found in the air before the Industrial Revolution.

The amounts are intended to offset the reduction in state bonding for affordable housing from $125 million in 1989 to $5 million last year.

In the 1950s it was known that individuals treated with injections of animal insulin developed resistance to the hormone and so required greater amounts of it to offset the effects of the disease; however, a satisfactory explanation for this phenomenon had not been put forth.

Even in the presence of severe insulin resistance, a perfectly normal β-cell is capable of secreting sufficient amounts of insulin to offset the defect in insulin action.