Sentence examples for needed to be offset from inspiring English sources

Most notably this year they blocked the extension of some tax cuts and passage of a budget on the grounds that the tax breaks needed to be offset with spending decreases.

Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, refused, saying that the powers granted to the F.D.A. in the bill would have financial costs, and that those costs needed to be offset by spending reductions.

Earlier at the forum, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour said he disagreed with the idea that such money needed to be offset by corresponding spending cuts.

When diabetes insipidus (defined by diuresis >3 ml/kg/h and urine density <1003 gm/cm) occurred, diuresis needed to be offset volume for volume and desmopressin was administered to maintain diuresis between 1 and 3 ml/kg/h and natremia <160 mmol/L.

Furthermore, offsetting companies cannot agree on how much carbon is emitted and needs to be offset.

Any potential harm to competition would need to be offset against these benefits".

Any tax cuts would need to be offset by spending cuts to avert a collision with Brussels.

Aside from the logical problem here — if tax cuts increase revenue, why do they need to be offset?

Of necessity, figuring out how much carbon dioxide needs to be offset for a large meeting involves choices.

Pinot gris from Alsace is rarely dry, either, but any sweetness needs to be offset by acidity.

He promised to fight for those dollars, but warned that the money would need to be offset by "more painful cuts in the operations of state government".