1.   However, if you do this, be sure to take more club than normal to offset the loss in distance.

2.   Land reclamation could partially offset that loss, but the feasibility of such conversion is questionable because of the huge costs involved.

3.   The company will offset the losses by selling stocks and real estate.

4.   The mortgage traders offset the losses with profits they had squirreled away for a rainy day.

5.   Gains in one area offset losses in another.

6.   There is no mechanism which ensures that the benefit will exactly offset the losses for any particular country.

7.   The plan calls for massive reductions in logging coupled with an aid package to offset job losses.

8.   To offset the loss of clothing space, the store is introducing an ordering service, by which items seen at any other branch may be obtained within days.