Sentence examples for rule was offset from inspiring English sources
Every achievement of Shevardnadze's rule was offset by a great failure: He ended a civil war, but allowed lawlessness and violent crime to rule.
Pride in imperial feats was offset by reminders of the abuses that also accompanied 350 years of conquest and rule.
This was offset by strong performances elsewhere.
Even though the cost was offset.
The House approved, as part of last year's energy bill, a multiyear extension of the credits, while insisting — under its pay-as-you-go rules — that they be offset by rescinding an equivalent amount in tax credits for the oil companies.
And while they did not succeed in getting Pelosi to fully back their demands or even preventing restoration of the miserly "PAYGO" rule mandating new spending be offset by tax increases or spending cuts it's clear that the left is dictating the debate in a way it had not previously.
In February, the Senate approved "paygo" rules that require spending to be offset by tax hikes or spending cuts elsewhere.
Theoretically, some of this disadvantage is offset by a rule requiring companies to announce meaningful events.
Most successful was the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, which imposed caps on discretionary spending and also introduced the "Paygo" rule: any tax cut had to be offset by a spending cut, and any expansion of entitlements with a tax increase.
In a particularly cynical move, Mr. Boehner and his new team have exempted the repeal bill from their own rule that any increase in spending be offset by cuts in other programs.
