Sentence examples for offset criticism from inspiring English sources

Under that plan, the city would seek to offset criticism by building a new park nearby.

But some have expressed interest in finding a way to follow the rest of the campaign finance stipulations, partly to offset criticism from their opponents.

And Mr. Giuliani's attempts to offset criticism of the police by questioning the dead man's temperament have widely been seen as insensitive.

The former Liberal Democrat pensions minister, Steve Webb, said Mr Osborne might try to offset criticism by using some of the windfall gains to raise the threshold at which people pay 40 per cent tax.

The Chinese I spoke with were extremely aware that the government's foursquare reaction to the earthquake — as opposed to the Burmese generals' refusal to accept foreign aid after the flooding of the Irrawaddy Delta — has helped to offset criticism of the way the Chinese military crushed dissent in Tibet earlier in the year.

On the track, Nascar required drivers to put spoilers back on their cars to improve the racing and make them look more like older stock cars; passed rules to encourage more bumper-to-bumper driving; and urged drivers to voice their opinions to spice up the rivalries and offset criticism that the sport had become too sanitized.

But it appeared to fall short of offsetting criticism from consumer groups and federal regulators over company plans to raise certain costs for tens of millions of customers.

"Since Sept. 11, it is possible to articulate an energy-security rationale that can offset environmental criticism.

They have to find an outside villain to offset the criticism they are starting to hear about their handling of the economy".

To offset the criticism that such measures will undoubtedly spur, the prime minister said those changes would be matched by bolstering support to welfare services for the unemployed and for Italian youths.

On both sides of the Atlantic, it has won rave reviews for Meryl Streep's performance in the lead role — offset by criticism of the film's focus on Mrs. Thatcher's often humiliating battle in recent years with dementia.