Sentences with phrase «partly offset»

New federal mortgage rules are creating a «policy ceiling» that will curb Toronto's soaring house prices this year, measures that would be partly offset by another Bank of Canada rate cut, the local real estate board said in a new forecast.

According to the report, expected growth in home renovation spending, critical to the construction industry, will partly offset weaker new home construction.

This cost was at least partly offset by reduced government spending on foster care placements and public services related to child maltreatment.

For companies the cost would be partly offset by savings in the spam war.

By comparison, this was partly offset by increases in the northern Amundsen Sea and north of Dronning Maud Land.

This suggests to me that the long term trend is due to an increase in radiative forcing from anthropogenic emissions (partly offset by environmental uptake), but the short term variations are due to the modulation of the NNFI by the ENSO (which limits the partial uptake of anthropogenic emissions).

The salt is also a useful byproduct that can partly offset the costs.

The drop in emissions forecast for China in 2016 is largely down to a reduction in coal emissions of 1.8 %, though this will be partly offset by a growth in emissions from oil of 4 %, from natural gas of 7.2 % and from cement production of 2.6 %, provisional figures for January to September suggest.

A carbon tax, partly offset by tax cuts or rebates for middle - income and poorer taxpayers, could provide additional revenue.

Although this is partly offset by autumn cooling in East Antarctica, the continent - wide average near - surface temperature trend is positive.

In 2012, the world has added a net 3,000 megawatts of nuclear capacity, with new additions in South Korea and Canada partly offset by more U.K. shutdowns.

This is partly offset by weaker business investment intentions, particularly for non?resources sectors.

Malaysia's forest loss was partly offset by a 25,978 sq km gain in vegetation cover resulting from natural recovery, reforestation, and establishment of industrial timber and oil palm plantations.

However, dry - spell duration and warming trend effects on vegetation productivity may be at least partly offset by rising atmospheric CO2 effects on plants (Bachelet et al., 2001; Thuiller et al., 2006b), leading to sometimes contrasting projections for deserts that are based on different modelling techniques that either incorporate or ignore CO2 - fertilisation effects.

In most cases, these effects partly offset or exceed the CH4 lifetime increase due to emissions.

This is partly offset by the fact that we will learn more over time, so an optimal plan may involve an initial period where the reduction in emissions is slower, but there is an investment in capacity to reduce emissions quickly if the news is bad.

Over-exploitation of the giant Geysers steam field has caused a decline in geothermal capacity in the USA in recent years, which has been partly offset by important capacity additions in other countries.

• More than 100 % (i.e. GHG warming has been partly offset by aerosol cooling) • Between 76 % and 100 % • Between 51 % and 76 % • Between 26 % and 50 % • Between 0 and 25 % • Less than 0 % (i.e. anthropogenic GHG emissions have caused cooling) • There has been no warming • Unknown due to lack of knowledge • I do not know • Other (please specify)

But as cogently interpreted by the physicist and climate expert Dr. Joseph Romm of the liberal Center for American Progress, «Latif has NOT predicted a cooling trend — or a «decades - long deep freeze» — but rather a short - time span where human - caused warming might be partly offset by ocean cycles, staying at current record levels, but then followed by «accelerated» warming where you catch up to the long - term human - caused trend.

Our study suggests that global surface warming has been partly offset by the Pacific climate response to enhanced Atlantic warming since the early 1990s.

The nearest thing to angst here is a painting called Rain - its pulsating reds, greens and blues are only partly offset by some hefty blocks of grey - black.

Revenue increased due to higher PS4 software sales, including digital ones, added to contribution from PlayStation VR (which had sold 1 million units by the beginning of June), partly offset by the semi-recent price cut for the console.

Also, the extra cost of flying directly into London (and terminating there) is partly offset by not having to pay for a flight to get you back to London from Copenhagen (in this example).

Other findings in the report suggest retiree withdrawals will be only partly offset by the use of automatic 401 (k) enrollment features.

CMHC says slower activity in oil - producing provinces such as Alberta will be partly offset by increased activity in British Columbia and Ontario.

The success of new Livre de Poche paperback releases partly offset the decline in Illustrated Books.

Comparable store sales declined 3.2 % on lower store traffic, which was partly offset by the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

This was partly offset though by the need for 95 RON premium unleaded fuel.

Those state and local cuts were only partly offset by a surge in federal funds, aimed at reviving the economy.

The warming from sulfate would partly offset the downward temperature trend that would come from the decline in greenhouse gas emissions.

Although losses are partly offset by strong gains on the spine and western flank of the Antarctic Peninsula, numerous glaciers feeding intact Antarctic Peninsula, West Antarctic and East Antarctic ice shelves are also thinning dynamically.

The cooling effect of aerosols can partly offset global warming on a short - term basis, but many are made of organic material that comes from sources that scientists don't fully understand, said Joost de Gouw, a research physicist at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., who is unaffiliated with the studies.

But heat will also kill directly, he says, and the effect will be only partly offset by warmer winters.

In their university finances report, Statistics Canada found that universities have doubled their expenditure on scholarships and bursaries in the last decade to partly offset the rising cost of tuition.

The growth in these agencies» academic R&D support would be partly offset by declines at DOD, NASA, Agriculture and Transportation.

Departmental spending cuts have been partly offset by a rising benefits bill which now means # 1 in every # 3 of taxpayers» money is spent on benefits.

Earlier on Monday, a report by Policy in Practice — a group that works with local authorities on welfare changes — revealed the impact on two - thirds of working tax credit recipients over the next five years, and suggested that the # 4.4 bn savings from the tax credits package would be partly offset by higher housing benefit and council tax support payments.

There's also $ 66 million to combat homelessness — a problem that dogged the mayor for months before losing the spotlight to multiple investigations into City Hall and the mayor's campaign — which will be partly offset by $ 38 million in savings.

The cost of the $ 5.4 million project is partly offset by a $ 400,000 Open Space Land Acquisition and Development grant and $ 255,693 from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation.

Fuel costs had risen 16 per cent in the first half compared with the same period the previous year and plastic costs were up 24 per cent, although this was partly offset by higher bulk cream prices.

These losses, however, have been partly offset by the number of people who have changed their affiliation to Catholicism (2.6 % of the adult population) but more importantly by the disproportionately high number of Catholics among immigrants to the U.S..

Its efficiency program delivered $ 90 million of savings, which only partly offset the nearly $ 200 million drag from increased commodity costs.

In the United Kingdom, growth in domestic demand remains strong, but is being partly offset by falling net exports, reflecting the appreciation of the pound over the past two years.

The fall in the total public sector borrowing requirement over the same period has been somewhat larger, reflecting significant consolidation by State governments, partly offset by smaller surpluses of public trading enterprises.

The unemployment rate continued to fall in April, reaching another post-financial crisis low of 4.4 %, although this was partly offset by a marginal decline in the labor force participation rate.

In the March quarter, strong employment growth and higher wages were partly offset by lower farm incomes.

This seems to be a strong hint that the markets should expect any further strength in the US currency against those of China's main trading partners to be at least partly offset by a decline in the renminbi against the dollar.»

While business credit growth has fallen in recent months, this weakness has been partly offset by growth in alternative sources of business funding, and surveys do not report businesses being constrained by a lack of funds.

Earnings growth primarily resulted from higher net interest income and lower preferred share dividends, partly offset by lower non-interest income, increased non-interest expenses and a marginally higher provision for credit losses.

This was partly offset by a significant pick - up in stockbuilding and continued strong growth in interest - sensitive areas of the economy, particularly housing.