Those early-season miracles, that 6-1 start, helped mitigate the nightmare of a 3-6 close.
That may have helped mitigate the punishment, but clearly the N.C.A.A. decided the school had not gone far enough.
That growth helped mitigate the effects of the recession, which was a body blow to construction, a major local employer.
Coordinated planning, targeted spending and collaborative leadership at local, state and federal levels helped mitigate the worst effects of BHP closing its steelworks in 1999.
A rally in the last 40 minutes of trading, including a 100-point surge in the Dow Jones industrial average, helped mitigate the day's pain.
Gala's Coral betting shop division - now the largest profit contributor in the group - helped mitigate the gloom, showing a 21% rise in ebitda, to £194m.
That foray into a wider array of health care operations has helped mitigate slowing growth of drugstore sales as the economy weakens.
Such shortcomings may have left business school graduates inadequately prepared to make the decisions that, taken together, might have helped mitigate the financial crisis, critics say.
Speaking in the Senedd, Jones said emergency workers and medical staff had helped "mitigate the effects" of an "extremely traumatic" incident.
The brief version of the story is that the government, which helped mitigate the recession, has been a significant drag on growth for more than a year now.
Tourism has become an important source of revenue and foreign exchange and has helped mitigate the effects of large trade deficits.
