Sentence examples for as countervailing from inspiring English sources

Corporations were acting as countervailing forces on one another.

The giving-it-up-for-love shtick can hardly be described as countervailing those critics.

(*The simultaneous upregulation of a presumably catabolic glutamate dehydrogenase might be taken as countervailing evidence, but this observation is difficult to interpret without knowing in which cell type(s) and cytoplasmic compartment(s) this upregulation occurs).

Every player in America's defence debate has a corner to defend; there is nothing wrong with that, so long as countervailing pressure is applied by policymakers who have the nation's broadest interests at heart.

Yet it seems that time and again market institutions find ways to use the government's regulatory and insurer-of-last-resort functions as countervailing forces against their competitors and, in the end, against the very public these functions were meant to protect.

"It seems like the factoring in of the policy, along with recent geopolitical effects could be responsible," said Roberts, citing the Irish bailout, fears about Portugal and Spain, and Chinese easing as countervailing forces.

Calling for legislation that would put workers on the boards of all but the smallest companies, the pair note: "What matters most for reducing inequality is the strength of progressive politics as a countervailing voice in society.

From Drudge, the clip and the discussion bounced around the blog circuit (including the Screens blog here at The Times as well as my own Times blog, The Lede), as did a swell of countervailing evidence, which ultimately won the day: it seems that Mr. McCain was, like just about everyone else in attendance that night, simply glancing down at his copy of the speech and reading along.

While the reliability of these sources is questionable, it is known that during his brief reign, Caligula worked to increase the unconstrained personal power of the emperor, as opposed to countervailing powers within the principate.

With respect to the use of performance measures for accountability we find countervailing effects, as the effect on functional strategic decision influence is positive when the measures are more reliable but negative when they are more specific to the functional subunit.

And yet, as quickly as the intrigue surrounding the opt-out grew, countervailing forces began to weigh in.