This exceeds their domestic profits alone, but the effect will be cushioned by their enormous international profits.
However, there is one class which will be affected by the clause and which may be cushioned, to a degree, by the amendment.
This could be cushioned, and could almost be avoided, if one had a wider industrial base than has existed in the past.
It is easy to say that unemployment is cushioned by benefits.
That, to a certain extent, has cushioned the effect, particularly of the huge increase in the whisky tax.
I hope they are not being cushioned in any way by these payments.
Although structural funds have cushioned the region from further decline, its relative competitiveness has slipped as other regions have improved their economic performance.
Their effect on the economy is cushioned by the savings of the higher income groups.
