The phrase
"to offset these effects" means to counterbalance or neutralize the impact or consequences of something.
Full definition
If you have an otherwise healthy credit and payment history, that will help
offset the effects of a late or missed payment.
Public debt charges increased by $ 0.2 billion, as an increase in the stock of debt was
largely offset the effect of lower interest rates.
The lower interest rates that did
occur offset the effects of mortality improvement for premium rates for permanent life insurance policies.
«Simply put, our results indicate that whitening the surface of the Arctic Ocean would not be an effective tool
for offsetting the effects of climate change caused by atmospheric greenhouse gas,» Caldeira said.
Fiscal stimulus introduced in recent provincial budgets is expected to help
offset these effects by adding about 0.4 per cent to Canada's real GDP by the end of 2020.
As detailed above, they conclude that greenhouse gases are responsible for the observed warming in this region and that their effect is being
partly offset the effect of other anthropogenic influences, primarily aerosols.
«It is difficult to estimate what the net effect of the indirect and
other offsetting effects will be,» the report found.
[9] This was helped by the provision of income tax cuts at the same time (and adjustment of benefits)
which offset the effects of the rise in the price level so that real incomes were not harmed.
Working in the other direction, the reduction in the top wholesale sales tax rate on some items last year, such as televisions and VCRs, had a
small offsetting effect.
The state's Legislative Emergency Board in July allocated $ 75,000 to begin recruiting potential business and educational users of the Oregon ED - NET, a proposed communications system that would, among other functions, help remote rural school
districts offset the effects of teacher shortages and geographic isolation.
At least in this particular setting, however, the homogeneous classes that are created by tracking seem to allow the teacher to deliver instruction at a level that reaches all students,
thus offsetting the effect of having lower - performing peers.
«For the small minority of business owners that have the ability to accumulate passive income or other strategies that are targeted, this tax reduction will have only a
minor offsetting effect against the bigger issues raised in the consultation document,» Greenberg said.
It dispenses electricity through wind turbines, breezes and healthy
air offsetting the effects of Scottsdale Road and the parking.
In developing Asia, however, the sulfur content of fuels is much larger, so the impact of sulfate
particles offsets the effect of changes in soot and ozone from transportation, leading to a net effect from short - lived pollutants that is quite small.
As climate modellers will be well aware, a few weeks ago a group of German scientists reported that a weakening in the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) over the next ten years due to natural internal variability could cool climate around the North Atlantic enough to
temporarily offset the effects of global warming.
In the DePreSys forecast, internal
variability offsets the effects of anthropogenic forcing in the first few years, leading to no net warming before 2008 (Fig. 4).
As both supply and demand move together in this way they have
offsetting effects on price — lower demand decreases price and lower supply increases price.
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«Healthy diet may not offset high salt intake: A healthy diet may
not offset the effects of a high salt intake on blood pressure.»
If institutions responded in that way, they would at least
partially offset the effect of higher borrowing costs on students» pocketbooks.
Significantly, earnings rose in 7 of the 13 corrections (+10.5 % on average), indicating that earnings gains do not necessarily prevent meaningful corrections although they can help
offset the effect of rising inflation.
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Some of Wall Street's biggest bulls, including David Rosenberg, chief economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff, and FundStrat's Tom Lee have suggested that the US consumer's robustness and size is enough to
offset the effects of a slowing China.
This is just another way in which the Fed is pumping monetary stimulus into the economy to
offset the effect of fiscal restraint.
This narrative is almost certainly wrong: there is no mechanism that I know of by which changes in government spending (a demand response) can
offset the effects of changes in oil prices (a supply shock).
This might mean, for example, that the central bank would need to run a more stimulative policy than it would have otherwise to
offset the effect of macroprudential policies, and the macroprudential authority would impose more stringent measures than it would have otherwise to counteract the leverage and risk taking generated by looser monetary policy.
The Bank did not seek to
offset the effect of the GST on the price level.
To
offset the effects of the energy crisis, governments will have to invest heavily in national infrastructure (especially public - transportation systems); national industries once hurt by outsourcing and foreign competition will thrive, and the environment will become cleaner as people are forced to use less fossil fuel and as cars disappear from the streets.
«The size of the Fiscal Cliff is such that there's no chance the Fed could have any ability whatsoever to
offset that effect on the economy.»
Should Congress then create a miracle for the steel - using industry to
offset the effects of its miracle created for steel producers, such as giving them handouts or their own tariffs?
For any given growth rate of credit to be maintained, the level of approvals needs to increase over time to
offset this effect.
An eight percent increase in death from self - destructive behavior in this group is no less disturbing because of
the offsetting effect of a decline elsewhere happens to be larger or smaller than the increase in death by self - destruction.
Grow More Food Festival, which offers many entertainment options for Guyanese residents, encourages all sizes of businesses within the agriculture industry to grow more food, and engages families to plant kitchen gardens and other small - scale gardens to help
offset the effects of higher food prices.
A later healthy romantic relationship can
offset the effects of a difficult childhood.
Only a large - scale breastfeeding promotion programme — supported «down to the village level,» said Ms. Rudert — was able to
offset the effects of formula.
Ministers have insisted that introducing a new national living wage of # 9 - an - hour by 2020, plus changes to childcare costs and the personal income tax threshold, will
offset the effects of the policy.