Sentence examples for act to counter from inspiring English sources

There have also been numerous village-level and regional movements, using public interest legislation and the 2005 Right to Information Act to counter corruption where it occurs.

2.40pm GMT Lunchtime summary Norman Lamb, the health minister, has announced that the government is going to rewrite controversial regulations implementing the Health Act to counter fears that they would promote wholesale privatisation.

After Labor returned to power in 1974, Mr. Jenkins went back to the Home Office, where he enacted a strict Prevention of Terrorism Act to counter a surge of violence by the Irish Republican Army.

If the Palestinians perform adequately in Gaza and Jericho, the Israelis could pull back forces from those areas and eventually from other areas where Palestinian security forces act to counter terrorism.

The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, hailed the large number of female Lib Dem peers, in part a deliberate balancing act to counter the predominantly male Lib Dem profile in the Commons.

Individuals can act to counter hateful rhetoric.

Thus, it appears that the different PKC isoforms have contrasting roles in platelet α-granule secretion: PKCα is critically required for α-granule secretion, and PKCθ acts to counter this action.

One factor that acts to counter TE spread is the PIWI-interacting system of interfering RNAs (piRNAs).

Furthermore, persistent feedback inhibition provides an explanation of oncogene addiction as hyperdependency on the oncoprotein to sustain a certain strength of pathway output that acts to counter intrinsic inhibition (Pratilas et al, 2009; Chandarlapaty, 2012).

The latter charge is a relatively new provision in the New Zealand Crimes Act, designed to counter transnational crime.

It was the Fed doing what it does best — simultaneously reducing the cost of money for the nation's financial institutions and signaling to investors that it would act quickly to counter fears of a consumer-led recession.