Sentence examples for take to offset from inspiring English sources

That's how many trees Ms. Lin's studio staff has calculated it will take to offset the fuel and energy consumed in making the piece, including the artist's own frequent car trips from New York.

The bill did not advance in the Senate, Ms. Krueger said, in part because she could never get the company's lobbyists to explain how much they would save, or what steps they would take to offset any lost revenue to the city and state.

The Suzuki foundation thinks an organisation that spent nearly C$40m on the opening ceremony alone could afford pay the additional C$5m it would take to offset the 150,000 tonnes of carbon that will be produced by sponsors and spectators, too.The foundation also worries that Vanoc has failed "to reach out to Canadians or even Vancouverites about climate solutions".

Measures taken to offset the danger from earthquakes include reinforcing roads and bridges to withstand tremors and constructing buildings to absorb seismic shocks.

The ousted dictator reportedly told his interrogators "he would do whatever it took to offset the Iranian threat, making it clear he was referring to Iran's nuclear capability", Mr Duelfer said.

No one seems, however, to have bothered to calculate how many paper cups it takes to offset the carbon produced by making personalized mugs.

These measures are being taken to offset the cost of the new National Living Wage, which came in this month.

Despite these significant challenges, there are areas of opportunity, key tools and steps that can be taken to offset or circumvent operational challenges and offer pathways for responding to the crisis.

That lettuce was made possible by NASA's vegetable production system, otherwise known as Veggie, one of the handful of approaches the agency is taking to offset food transport costs and provide astronauts with a nutritious diet on long duration space missions.

It is more probable that the financial sustainability of private sector medicines research in fields such as oncology will become increasingly fragile, unless measures are taken to offset this hazard.

Steps can be taken to offset the failure of a particular restriction enzymes to resolve all species present, including generating multiple profiles with different restriction enzymes, and such approaches may need to be applied were the techniques described here to be applied to a wider study of chronic respiratory infections.