Sentence examples for simply offset from inspiring English sources

The fees, he said, would simply offset what he termed the town's well-documented costs.

Walsh has to realise that he can't simply offset the damage that his planes do to the climate.

Their companies were enjoying record sales, and the Federal Reserve's two interest rate increases seemed to be having little effect; the manufacturers simply offset them by subsidizing their discounted auto loans more heavily.

That truce officially collapsed earlier this year, but may never really have affected the murder rate – the discovery of a mass grave in early 2014 indicated the increase in "disappearances" may have simply offset the supposed murder rate decline.

Using EPA's approach in prior rulemakings, its figures indicate that, assuming its proposal were perfectly implemented and not simply offset by increased emissions abroad, the effect by 2100 would be to slow sea level rise by approximately 0.03 mm (the width of several sheets of paper) and to reduce the rise in global mean temperature by under 1/100 of a single degree centigrade.

And although supererogation cannot be hoped to simply offset even one's own violations of duty, the merit of actions beyond the call of duty definitely plays an important role in the overall evaluation of one's moral record.

Paul King, the chief executive of the UKGBC, said: "Simply offsetting emissions in nearby existing homes through energy efficiency improvements is not a solution – we need radical action in both new homes and existing homes, it's not an either/or.

It was as if she had ripped the slave woman out of Manet's "Olympia" and pasted her to a wall, forcing her to stand on her own and answer for herself as the heroine — or villain — of the narrative, instead of simply offsetting Olympia's white beauty.

Conversely, including a non-zero mean TEF simply offsets the data geometrically in isotope-space and has no other bearing on model performance.

At the same time, a shortfall in external demand in other economies could simply be offset by higher internal demand.

I remember when I used to regularly write from a café, I would go out of my way to order lots and lots of food simply to offset my being there.