Sentence examples for intending to offset from inspiring English sources

But the law, intending to offset the advantages of incumbency, allows him a budget of only $255,000.

Citing Roemer (1998) and Corak (2013) argues that circumstances affect opportunity by three channels: social capital, genetic traits, and family values, and that while policies that affect social capital tend to be accepted, less consensus is placed on policies intending to offset genetic advantages, and within-family investments.

The total cost of the program, apparently intended to offset unrest, was estimated to be $36 billion.

The buyback is intended to offset declining values of stock-based compensation programs.

The money was partly intended to offset budget cuts that states are making.

It is intended to offset the Taliban's ability to shut down the official Afghan services, seemingly at will.

Begun in 1999 under Mr. DiFrancesco's predecessor, Christie Whitman, the rebate program is intended to offset rising property taxes.

The effect was reduced by $150 million through hedges, contracts intended to offset fuel price increases, the airline said.

England implemented its "Speenhamland" system – a form of outdoor relief intended to offset rising bread prices – during the Napoleonic Wars.

Such taxes are intended to offset the harm to society of a given activity, most commonly the emission of some form of pollution.

India's last drought came in 2009, but the broader economy was shielded because of government stimulus measures intended to offset the global financial meltdown.