Sentence examples for by countervailing from inspiring English sources

Many believe that displays of military might are always erased or offset by countervailing forces of resistance.

On the same day they presented a motion for preliminary injunction, supported by affidavits which were subsequently met by countervailing ones.

But after a segment of the film was shown on television, outrage gave way to a desire to examine a period defined by countervailing emotions.

As a result, most experts expect the economy to continue to be buffeted by countervailing factors in the months ahead, with business activity and the Fed providing a healthy measure of support for growth even as fiscal austerity in Washington makes a substantial drop in the unemployment rate unlikely.

Apocryphal stories abound of teenagers having the operation even when it is not needed in order to improve their velocity although in fact the surgery does not help pitchers throw harder than they did when their original ligament was intact.The transformative impact of Dr Jobe's invention has been masked by countervailing trends in the sport.

The powerful corporate and international pressure it is permanently subject to can only be offset by countervailing democratic and social pressure - inside and outside parliament and the Labour party, as well as from the trade unions and popular campaigns and movements.

In "Reply to McMichael" (1978a) he complains about the utilitarian assumption that "any sort or amount of evil can be neutralized, as if it had never been, by enough countervailing good —and that the balancing evil and good may be entirely unrelated" (1978a: 85).

And the examples of beliefs that the Skeptic would end up with are indeed the ones that Frede gives, such as me believing now that it is day, on the basis of having a (perceptual) impression that it is light outside, an impression which is not countermanded by any countervailing impressions and which exerts a pull all of its own towards assent.

However, the mere presence of a risk of moral decline does not show that we have decisive reasons against attempting noncognitive moral enhancement; reasons to avoid that risk might well be matched or outweighed by other, countervailing reasons.

The Treasury and Federal Reserve Board of Governors have the authority needed to offset purchases of foreign assets by foreign governments by engaging in countervailing currency intervention.

Even if the wrongness stems directly from the unnaturalness, this leaves open the possibility that something unnatural could be justified by sufficiently strong countervailing considerations, such as those provided by medical benefit or scientific knowledge.