Therefore loss of life and material damage could be balanced off.

I mean, how does anyone expect to drink all night without a little pick-me-up to balance it off?

"It's now a question of governments balancing off different pressure groups and defining their national interest," he said.

He's getting a lot of layups, and it balances off his jumper.

The next big crew shipment's in six months, and the company's trying like hell to recruit women to balance things off.

Newt's letter was just a beginning, and I'll balance off against it whatever you can tell me.

They are not alternatives to be balanced off against it.

At the moment it sounds as though both sides are balancing each other off in your mind, so dig a little deeper.

Or they balance off short skirts stretched over suntanned legs.

It should not be so difficult to balance them off against one another.