Sentence examples for mainly offset from inspiring English sources

The ONS confirmed that Britain avoided a triple dip recession with growth of 0.3% in the first quarter, but a breakdown of the figures showed that investment dropped 0.4%, mainly offset by stockpiling by British businesses.

The Bush administration imposed the tariffs mainly to offset the benefits of what it says are subsidies to Canadian sawmills, in the form of low "stumpage" fees paid to cut down trees in government-owned forests.

Half of that deficit remains unfinanced, and the government paid $2.8 billion in subsidies alone in 2012, mainly to offset the cost of fuel for Yemen's desperately poor population.

While none of the three American automakers are threatening to abandon Canada if they do not receive substantial concessions in the contract talks, they have all made it clear that they need to reduce labor costs, mainly to offset the rise of the Canadian dollar.

The goal is mainly to offset the cost of travel for everyone involved, so Carpooling determines how much passengers should contribute based on the number of miles driven and reimburses drivers accordingly.

I don't remember much if any discussion of the Peace Corps at Port Huron, probably because of skepticism due to the attempt of the Kennedy Administration to overthrow the Cuban government in 1961, flood Latin America with Green Berets, and promote an Alliance for Progress mainly to offset the influence of Latin American revolutionaries and followers of liberation theology.

Revenues are down 4% in 2015, but this is mainly timing and offset in outer years with no change in the overall revenue opportunity for GX.

Snow precipitation is offset mainly by continental ice moving seaward by three mechanisms ice-shelf flow, ice-streamechanisms ice-shelfow.

BAE Systems is unique in our defence coverage in that it has a large enough growth market in the middle east (mainly Saudi Arabia) to offset the decline in the US defence.

In another hand, the side surface was mainly affected by offset distance (Wo) which also could be represented by offset ratio.

The effect for Jason-2 manifests mainly as an offset in station coordinates, though there is also evidence of a drift at the start of the mission that diminishes in time.