This is easier to do if you can see the plants, of course, but many online stores will offer you a guarantee to offset the risk.
The government is selling bonds that are absolutely, positively guaranteed to not pay enough to offset inflation over the coming years.
Even if it introduces another round of quantitative easing, pumping, say, another trillion dollars into the financial markets via a series of bond purchases, there is no guarantee that this would be enough to offset a Romney-imposed fiscal contraction.
How can you guarantee a forest will stand for millennia, to offset carbon emissions that warm the planet for millennia?
*Mr Minsky had a range of solutions, including a job guarantee scheme and a government budget big enough to offset changes in private investment spending.
Around 55,000 families have mortgaged their life savings and assets to invest in small solar farms in the countryside — with the guarantee of government-backed returns — in a bid to offset falling incomes from farming, said the National Association of Photovoltaic Energy Producers.
Carbon dioxide pumped out of a coal power station stays in the atmosphere for millennia – so to "offset" it genuinely, you have to guarantee that a forest will stand for the same amount of time.
But there is no guarantee that gains in service-sector employment will continue to offset the resulting job losses in industry.
Master mechanism inverse dynamics control is implemented to offset master mechanism inertia, whilst passivity control guarantees stability.
Where governments in Canada once considered housing as a public good requiring their oversight if not direct provision, they have largely retreated to episodic tinkering with mortgage rules and guarantees, home renovation grants, or modest subsidies to social assistance recipients to offset high private market rents.
