Here, opposites attract and the lively acidity and sharpness of apples is perfectly offset by the sweetness of glistening sugar.
It is not as if those assets are not real, or that they are perfectly offset by liabilities also kept off the balance sheet.
Fried quail, which by some kitchen trick arrives in juicy, boneless coins marbled with fat, is perfectly offset by a mash of banana curry, dollops of pickled turmeric, and a single, elegant stalk of Chinese broccoli.
A poached egg coated in crunchy panko crust is perfectly offset by a tangy dressing of cornichons ($13); mussels are nicely offset with a mustard-rosemary broth ($18); only the bland Cheddar foam on what should be a stupendous high-end cheese steak ($14) was a total disappointment.
But this was perfectly offset by the declining growth rate of M2, which fell to near zero between 1994 and 1996.
The melodrama of the scene is nearly perfectly offset by the glum, mechanical matter-of-factness of its participants.
But these disruptions in supply have been almost perfectly offset by the increases in output from America's shale boom.
If the length of the GI exceeds that of the channel impulse response, there will be no time offset and signal will be perfectly reconstructed.
However, in real systems, neither the frequency offset nor the channel can be perfectly estimated.
In most estimates, the positive and negative effects are almost perfectly offsetting.
