Destocking in Britain, for example, offset the 0.6 percentage point gains from net exports.
Mr Jordan said the carrier had considered offering carbon offsets, but concluded that they were kind of gimmicky; at the European carriers, for example, offset options simply don't get that many takers.
"But there are things we've learned over the last 10 years, capabilities that didn't exist 10 years ago that exist today that can, for example, offset and mitigate the risk of a somewhat smaller conventional or traditional force".
BSkyB, a British satellite-television and telecoms operator, was one of the first companies to go carbon-neutral by reducing its emissions as much as possible (by programming its set-top boxes to switch themselves to standby when not in use, for example), and offsetting the rest.
An overview on the theory of level set and fast marching methods and their applications to problems of various areas are given in [22,23], for example shape offsetting, computing distances, photolithography development, seismic travel times, etc. Distance fields are a special case of the level set equation where the absolute value of the advection velocity is 1.
She gives the example of offset provisions.
For example, people offset the savings from a new efficient refrigerator by changing their habits or buying a plasma TV.
But the payoff from expansion through debt, for example, is offset by the risk that the company might not be able to repay the debt.
The retro-ness of the ruching on a red skirt, for example, was offset by the placement of clean rectangular strips of fabric on top of it.
Landfill operators around the Southeast have been isolating and destroying methane, for example, earning offset credits that can one day be sold on California's carbon market.
