Set Off

But the problem presents itself when I look at my friends' Facebook photos and see telltale florid skin set-off against chalky white rings around their eyes, as though they've just touched down after a fortnight on the Alps in skiing goggles. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The United States collects taxes on behalf of foreign governments already (and allows a set-off against our taxes for taxes collected abroad) for all kinds of things, property, income taxes, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our own machine-guns were able to get in some good work among those crowded Turks, and those who know say that their losses must have been an ample set-off to our own. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They can set-off their little firecrackers all day every day as far as I'm concerned. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Intensifying competition has prevented the market leader from raising car prices to an extent to fully set-off higher costs. ❋ Nikhil Gulati (2010)

Just after Christmas at Stanstead airport my wife's 85-year-old, hideously white aunt was led away and strip-searched after her back-brace corset set-off the air-side check-in alarm. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They use these positive cash flows to set-off capital losses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bates points to a glitch in one of Skype's calling programs: "A handful of Windows clients failed and set-off a chain reaction that brought down Skype." ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2010)

A person familiar with the situation said the $470.5 million was calculated through terms set by an underlying contract, after being set-off against collateral it held at the time of the Lehman bankruptcy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

CIA-Mossad to set-off nuclear bomb in Chicago 24, likely on Holy Saturday 4-11-09 ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our charged voices have set-off a chain reaction amongst the Washington political masses, because we actually turned the tables on the anti-sovereignty, pro-illegal immigration organizations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

NGUYEN: Well, a terror suspect accused of planning to set-off a weapon of mass destruction back in New York this morning. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Using the magic of blogger, time dilation effects will set-off the giveaway post in a few moments. ❋ Penny (2009)

I get the feeling, if he acutally is writing this article he is only showing our reactions and not including his comments that set-off our reactions. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And use “\displaystyle” if you want the look of a set-off (rather than in-line) equation. ❋ Sean (2008)

What are the first words in set-off text that one encounters in the recently released Center for American Progress/Chamber of Commerce report, Leaders and Laggards? ❋ Unknown (2008)

When he sustains any mishap, he and the other canters set it down as a debt against Heaven, and, by way of set-off, practise rogueries without compunction, till the they make the balance even, or incline it to the winning side. ❋ Unknown (2008)