If his major service was to help his country through its worst constitutional crisis, it was offset by the long-term consequences of his ill-conceived interventions in Central America.
It was offset partly by a tax expense of $331 million and an increase to legal reserves of $450 million.
Mr. Prakken said tighter spending would "slow economic growth unless it was offset with lower interest rates through the Fed".
"The soup business was weak, and you don't like to see it, but it was offset by some great performance elsewhere," said Matt Arnold, an analyst at Edward Jones.
And it was offset error -- an unclear association between name and matching hole -- that caused the suspected confusion for Palm Beach County voters.
There was intense competition, to be sure, but it was offset by a sense of solidarity and purpose, along with a determination not to "sell out" to the pop mainstream.
There are many conservatives who would embrace a carbon tax or gasoline tax if it was offset by a cut in payroll taxes or corporate taxes, so we could foster new jobs and clean air at the same time.
Under normal circumstances, the inflow of dollars from those surpluses would push up the value of China's currency, unless it was offset by private investors heading the other way.
WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner on Tuesday set the stage for a bruising election-year showdown on fiscal policy, vowing to hold up another increase in the federal debt ceiling unless it was offset by larger spending cuts.
If anyone derived aesthetic pleasure from them, it was offset by the pity they aroused for having been built during the early 1970's, that low-water mark of architectural modernism.
