Sentence examples for is intended to offset from inspiring English sources

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

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.

That, they said, should make the project more tangible and help lure a tenant, whose rent is intended to offset the costs.

The package is intended to offset adverse effects of the government's banking policy, which includes forcing lenders to cut off delinquent borrowers if needed.

The buyback for the current fiscal year, which ends Nov. 30, 2000, is intended to offset dilution resulting from employee stock plans, the company said.

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

While the bank says they were intended to offset other risks on the books, the strategy also appeared to have a speculative element.

The tariff was intended to offset the benefits of what the department called Canadian sawmill subsidies, like low "stumpage" fees paid to harvest trees in government-owned forests.

Schuyler Carroll, a lawyer for the trustee, said the fees were intended to offset the costs of storage, cataloging, insurance and staff involved in returning the artifacts.

The amounts are intended to offset the reduction in state bonding for affordable housing from $125 million in 1989 to $5 million last year.