This cost can typically be offset through the long life cycle of the pavement.

Austin Energy plans to offset an additional 800 megawatts through energy efficiency between 2007 and 2020.

Still, they expect to easily offset the costs through tweaks like rescheduling maintenance projects.

But the company expects to offset a part of that through higher merchandise profits and lower operating expenses.

The city fathers have tried to offset the job loss through diversification.

That risk could be offset in part through trades in the options market.

Revenue lost to the tax cuts would be offset through savings in other areas.

But administrators offset losses through other services, like breast surgery and diagnostic procedures.

Second point: we have not fully offset the Agenda 2000 price reductions through the premium payments.

But the firm was able to more than offset the decline in business through another round of sharp reductions in expenses.