I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.
Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.
The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.
But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time.
I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.
Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.
Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.