"offset the disadvantages" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to counteract or balance out the negative aspects of something. Example: By offering flexible work hours and remote options, the company was able to offset the disadvantages of a long commute for its employees.
Mr. Fritsch, echoing other economists, said the weak dollar could also prompt European companies to improve their efficiency and productivity over the medium to long term to offset the disadvantages of having costs denominated in euros.
Before he can worry about potential rivals, Hagel says, he has to look into himself to see if he has the mettle and ideas needed to offset the disadvantages that make also-rans of senators who discover their Washington experience and voting records only handicap them when they go up against fresh-faced governors able to boast that they're not part of the problem.
On the state level, the Pataki administration's proposed tax break would help offset the disadvantages of doing business in New York, where real estate and utilities are more costly than elsewhere, said Brian Horey, the president of Equity Growth Management, a venture capital company that invests in Internet enterprises.
Typically, the WMA additive R and artificial RAP binder could offset the disadvantages of each other in rutting and fatigue resistance respectively.
Furthermore, a hyperbolic tangent function in conjunction with a sharpness function permitted to vary with time according to a set of user-defined parameters is implemented to offset the disadvantages of existing saturation-respecting controller and chattering.
In this assays, the paper capillary force is first used to transport complex fluids such as whole blood or colloidal suspensions that contain particulates in a new type channel - paper capillary driven hollow channel, which offset the disadvantages of current paper microfluidic technologies.
That, McKay said, would offset the disadvantage of losing the coin toss.
Mr. Sweeney emphasized that labor's spending would be far less than corporate America's, contending that unions could largely offset the disadvantage by persuading tens of thousands of union members to become volunteer workers in political campaigns.
Could postal voting be used to offset the disadvantage of incumbency, ministers pondered?Instead of the limited pilot recommended by the independent Electoral Commission in which "postal-only" voting would be allowed in just two areas of the country, the government decided, to the fury of opposition parties, to impose the experiment on four regions, encompassing 14m voters.
The United States typically offers potential customers more advanced electronic equipment than its European competitors, partially offsetting the disadvantages of its older designs; and delivery delays for the European aircraft are typically longer.
Cong and Silverstein (2011) found financial support (enhanced by migration) could have positive effects on financial security and the welfare of parental generations, to some degree offsetting the disadvantage of living at a distance.
