The word 'counteracted' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the act of opposing or neutralizing the effects of something. Example: The doctor prescribed a medication to counteract the side effects of the chemotherapy.
But once military spending and entitlements (such as government-provided health insurance for the poor and the elderly, and Social Security) are stripped out, less than a fifth of the budget is left to freeze: and that freeze would be counteracted by the jobs bill that Mr Obama urged Congress to pass.America cannot return to budgetary health without tackling entitlements.
The Treasury itself, Mr Brown's old fief, has quietly counteracted his urge to stretch Britain's deficit yet further.In deeper ways, power was ebbing from Number 10 long before Mr Brown moved in.
They would set the timing, size and differentials, and thus reduce the risks.Any negative effects of the minimum wage can be counteracted through the EITC.
That would result in a turbulent release of plasma if it were not counteracted by a second magnetic field created by an electric current induced in the plasma itself.The problem is that sustaining this second current is hard, and if its level varies too much, the system breaks down.
About one-third of the drop in DVD sales in the first quarter was counteracted by rising sales of high-definition Blu-ray discs, which are more profitable.
But perhaps the surge of investor demand will be counteracted by a wave of supply from governments.
Rain-fed crops (as opposed to those watered by irrigation), which are often grown in the tropics, do respond to higher levels of carbon dioxide, but the effect is counteracted by rising temperatures.
At its most cartoonish, the progressive vision conceives of voters as mere vehicles of class interest, or as dupes easily gulled by pernicious corporate propaganda that either is or is not counteracted by corrective anti-corporate propaganda.
That would normally have been expected to cause inflation, but the central bank counteracted the effect by forcing lenders to lock up a large portion of the resulting cash as reserves.
Brahms's music complemented and counteracted the rapid growth of Romantic individualism in the second half of the 19th century.
Thus the enhancement of steppe archery through the use of stirrups was counteracted by a parallel improvement in the effectiveness of the heavy armoured cavalry that guarded Middle Eastern and European farmlands against the steppe nomads.
