Sentence examples for means of offsetting from inspiring English sources

Inflationary tendencies have directed attention to stocks as a means of offsetting rising prices.

Mr. FitzGerald was an ardent supporter of the European Union as a means of offsetting Britain's overwhelming economic influence in his country.

As a means of offsetting the effects of inflation, some Latin American countries introduced an adjustment into the measurement of income from business and capital.

Indexation, in fiscal policy, a means of offsetting the effect of inflation or deflation on social security payments and taxes by measuring the "real value" of money from a fixed point of reference, usually a price index.

Making the numbers add up is going to become incrementally more difficult as musicians steadily hike up their appearance fees, as a means of offsetting declining income from record sales.

(Such leaks occur frequently in Mr. Tsai's other movies, which include "The River," "Vive l'Amour" and "Rebels of the Neon God," perhaps as a comment on the state of Taiwanese plumbing, perhaps as a means of offsetting the dry precision of his visual style).

This paper describes the trajectory following algorithm developed for a bio-inspired flexible probe, the direction of which can be controlled by means of an offset between interlocked probe segments which make up its body.

As such, our results indicate that musical training may serve as a means to offset the effects of age-related communication disorders by improving hearing in noise – an everyday listening skill – through the enhancement of auditory-related perceptual and cognitive functions.

A parliamentary-expenses scandal, which had been brewing since 2007, broke in May 2009 when the Daily Telegraph reported on widespread abuse by members of Parliament of expense accounts meant to offset the cost of having to maintain a second residence (the so-called Additional Costs Allowance).

"Hedging" means the offsetting of commitments in the market in actuals by futures contracts.

The ad revenue is meant to offset some of the costs for US Foods in sponsoring the magazine.