Any effort a manufacturer may make to develop these two angles of testing will more than offset any money cost that may be added to the factory overhead.
He probably fully believed that he had made that particular part of rustproof material but it was the selection of defective small parts that offset any advantage due to his use of fine materials for the major part of the machine.
Had to come to it in order to offset the sugar shortage.
Whereas they were speculating as to how to offset their heavy losses on the morrow, he was congratulating himself on corresponding gains.
Seeing the corpse in the store, foretells that loss and unpleasantness will offset all concerned.
To treat others, she will be generous to rivals, and the indifference of lovers or husband will not seriously offset her pleasures or contentment.
To see negroes dancing a jig, foolish worries willoffset pleasure.
He said to those English gentlemans at our meeting last night that England should haf someting to offset California on the west coast; because, though Mexico claims California, the Yankees really rule there, and will rule there yet more.
What seems to me plain is that, since we seem to lose a valuable ally in the Baroness von Ritz, we must make some offset to that loss.
I told them of our wagon trains going west, and of the strength of our frontiersmen; but offset this, justly as I might, by giving facts also regarding the opposition these might meet.
That may offset their good luck, check their pride, and humble them a little.
They are an offset to education and they go with it.
Very little serious attention is paid to this offset to the advantages of pair marriage.
He taught that it is a good work to emancipate a slave, which will offsetmany sins.
The demand may be so great as to offset the burden of rearing children and make it a group necessity that that burden shall be endured.
Wealth is often charged with introducing luxury and vice, but that tendency is offset by its giving command over the conditions of life, which makes refined usages possible.
It is forgotten that there is always a loss and offset from education in its narrow sense.
The writer of the scenario just quoted, missing a real climax, tried tooffset this by the gay dance.
The offset is that three acts provide only two breaks by which the passing of time may be suggested.
Yet the dot-line leaves him further from the peak than I am inclined to think he actually was; but it is obviously incorrect in detail, and thus no offset to the explicit text.
For practical purposes, any trifling food value it may have is more thanoffset by its later poisonous and disturbing effects and, secondly, by its enormous expensiveness.
But for healthy people they have no advantages over cotton that are not offset by their higher prices.
What good effects upon man's better nature has alcohol to show as an offset for this dreadful tendency to bring out the worst and lowest in man?
In post bellum decades, on the other hand, an increase of racial antipathy hasoffset the effect of the densification of settlement and has abnormally prolonged the liability to the lynching impulse.
An alternative route lay through Georgia; but its saving of distance was offset by the greater expanse of Indian territory to be crossed, the roughness of the road and the frequency of rivers.
In the towns alone was the loss offset in any degree by an inflow of immigration.
But in general the taking of reasonable precautions would cause the loss through unsuspected vices in one case to be offset by gains through unexpected virtues in another.
But losses of this sort were more than offset in the long run by the upward trend of prices which was in effect throughout the most of the ante-bellum period.
I assured him that I fully sympathized with him in his disappointment, and that I would send the same troops back with a different commander, with some reinforcements to offset those which the enemy had received.
The effect of full granaries was offset by a European wheat harvest worse even than that of 1916 and by the difficulty of sparing ships to bring Australia's wheat to Europe.
I would not know what to say to offset her accusations.
I'll be good," begged off Jane, who realized the effort at regrets was being made to offset her "glumps.
Agony bore quickly down on her paddle to offset the pull of the current; it struck an unexpected rock underneath the surface and twisted itself out of her hands.
To offset this, however, the boys had fine sea bathing, good opportunities for sailing parties, and the best of fresh fish with which to leaven their rations of salt horse and hardtack.
As an offset the bay is spacious, easy of access and sheltered from the violent gulf storms which prevail at some seasons.
Well, our government must have spies at Washington as an offset to Federal spies here among Gen.
The Emperor of France is charged with a design to seize Mexico as a colony, and to recognize Texas separately, making that State in effect a dependency, from which cotton may be procured as an offset to British India.
They want some tangible indemnity for the loss of life, and as victory is an offset the value of which is manifest, it not only makes them content to shed their blood, but also furnishes evidence of capacity in those who command them.
The popularity of the Nabu cult in Assyria, it will be recalled, is an offset against the supremacy of Marduk in the south.
But this consideration which makes the absence of the 'right' ear a good omen may again be offset by the entrance of a third factor.
This tendency was in a measure offset by the pride that the rulers of the second Babylonian period still took in parading at times, as large a number as possible of deities under whose protection they claimed to stand.
The feeling of weary disgust may more than offset the possible gain.
As an offset we have at best the prevention of the vices of idleness.
The change in railway rates necessary fully to offset this decrease in the value of the money in which rates are paid would amount to an apparent advance of 19.
At the date of one report in October, 1909, a surplus of cars in one territory was practically offset by a shortage in another territory.
There was only one thing which offset his shrewdness in realizing these conditions, and that was his own folly.
A sale here, a sale there, with an occasional purchase to offset them, and he gradually began to unload, making it a rule never to close a deal that did not net him ten times the amount that he had invested.
To offset this sudden release of grain, buying orders poured into the markets, the same cash that had been received from the sale of actual wheat being put into margins upon fictitious wheat.
He could afford to be eccentric; there remained, in the perspective he scorned, the bulk of a huge fortune to offset whatever idiosyncrasies he might choose to cultivate.
He offset the chilling effect of the low figure by deliberately declining commissions to paint women who fell below a rather severe standard of personal attractiveness.
The evil features of inter-collegiate games, especially as practiced, offset their advantages.
The colleges have helped to offsetthe material tendency of our civilization by holding up high ideals and emphasizing the supremacy of the unseen mental, moral, and spiritual forces in our life.
The "unionists" complained that the Confederate foragers had discriminated against them, which, while very likely true, was more than offset by the depredations of the tories and Federals on the Confederate sympathizers.
They planned to do this by playing upon the fears, superstitions, and cowardice of the black race; by creating a white terror to offset the black one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "offset" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
