Sentence examples for hardly offset from inspiring English sources

The loyalty and decency of such characters as Macduff hardly offset what is so painfully weak in the play's protagonist.

Some agents also say that the new commissions are lower than the industry average and hardly offset the cost of going into business for themselves.

The girls' sudden display of shame — like the order against talking to the news media that Judge Angela Cowden placed on local officials — could hardly offset the case's mutation into a media juggernaut.

The 2nd-century pagan philosopher Celsus is less dogmatic in his attacks on Christianity: the Christian miracles are insufficiently attested and most improbable, but, even if they were genuine, they could hardly offset the miracles of the pagan world e.g., the healings of Asclepius.

Even a 26percentt fall in newsprint expenses over the last year has hardly offset declines in the number of ad lines -- 14percentt in the fourth quarter of 2001, compared with a year earlier, though only 4percentt in the most recent quarter.

The $7,000 commission hardly offsets all the revenue that other uses could have brought in.

The funds a seller receives from a new customer may just offset the total costs of the goods provided to the customer, so the seller is hardly better off.

That hardly offsets the big county expenses: generous labor contracts (police officers earn as much as $100,000 a year, with benefits) and $100 million a year paid to settle the appeals of tax assessments that the county still bases on 1938 housing costs.

Bill Bridgeo, Augusta's city manager, said that the loss of all those well-paying jobs has hardly been offset by many minimum-wage jobs at the nearby mall called the Marketplace at Augusta.

The extravagance of a steaming outdoor hot tub surrounded by snow can hardly be offset by the bathroom soap dispensers (similar to the Gaia's), but Ms. Baird said the tub is heated by the same tankless system as the bathrooms, consuming half the energy of a conventional system.

And now, those retailers that spent the most have found that their Web divisions' sales are hardly enough to offset all the operating expenses of what was once seen naïvely as a "self-service" medium.