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But the few potential benefits from legalization, like a smaller prison population, would be offset by problems, including a costly bureaucracy to regulate the drugs and new addicts, Mr. Biden said.

In our opinion, the apparent gain in precision from a meta-analysis would be offset by problems in the interpretation of the summary results.

However, the strong UK performance was offset by problems abroad.

Its steps forward -- he offered what was seen by many Democrats as a strong performance in last week's debate -- have been offset by problems that are stirring increasing concern among his supporters.

Brighter spots — Iraq's economy is projected to grow 7percentthis yearare— are offset by problems: millions of Iraqis still don't have clean water and medical care, thousands are jobless and the Iraqi Army, while improving, cannot defend the country on its own.

Any mitigating circumstances were offset by problems off the field.

Dr. Michael Bernstein, a psychiatrist at the New Horizon Counseling Center, which sits across from Aqueduct, said he feared the economic benefits would be offset by social problems, and noted his concern that neighborhood high school students could play truant from school in order to gamble (the minimum age to gamble is 18).

However, this problem is likely to be offset by the large number of DArT markers available [35], which exceeds several hundred for both case studies presented here.

The producer and screenwriter said he believed the biggest problems plaguing British television could be offset by merging two of the biggest channels.

This in turn implies that reduced wind output due to curtailment can actually be offset by higher wind output in all periods in which there is no problem.

Most of the costs could be offset by phasing out the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, an inefficient subsidy to expand housing supply at a time when demand is the problem.