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counterbalancing
verb
Present participle of counterbalance
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The word 'counterbalancing' is correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used to describe the action of balancing or offsetting something with an opposing force or influence. Example: The company implemented a new policy to increase efficiency, but it had unintended consequences. To counterbalance these negative effects, they also introduced a bonus system to motivate employees and maintain morale.
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It's a commendably even-handed satire, counterbalancing corrupt and scheming businessmen with equally self-interested unions – personified by Peter Sellers' workshy Bolshevik leader: "We do not and cannot accept the principle that incompetence justifies dismissal".
"I've always felt we're going to make no progress here at all until we have the tanks on the lawns, with public opinion forcing political change and counterbalancing the extraordinary lobbying efforts in Washington, Brussels, London and so on.
Or "China will retaliate, not just with counter-tariffs against American exports, but with Russian-style legal and administrative attacks on American businesses inside China, including asset seizures and arrests; and the damage will far outweigh any gains from counterbalancing RMB undervaluation".
Nicknamed the pope's G8, the new commission was seen in Rome as a way of circumventing the traditionally reactionary Vatican bureaucracy and counterbalancing the dominance of Italians both within the bureaucracy and the Sacred College.
And a currency union needs some collective means of counterbalancing downturns in one or other state.
The king has also relinquished his own post as commander of the National Guard, a 100,000-man paramilitary force that links the Saud family with the Bedouin tribes whose loyalty underpins its rule and which has been seen as counterbalancing the army and police.
He confirms the Greenspan myth so wholeheartedly that his book is said to have irked Robert Rubin, who as secretary of the Treasury worked with Mr Greenspan and who is expected to give his own, counterbalancing account in a forthcoming book.Mr Woodward serves up plenty of Greenspan titbits.
In other words, it seems to me that America's security presence in east Asia is helpful to the American goal of counterbalancing Chinese geopolitical weight.
Regulators and market participants were all well aware that too much credit was being doled out too cheaply, yet models showed that risk-weighted capital ratios were healthy (see chart 9).Leaning or cleaning?Mr Persaud and other critics of the Basel 2 regime have long argued that it is "procyclical", reinforcing trends rather than counterbalancing them.
Germany was equipped after the war with a federal constitution with strong states, or Länder, counterbalancing the centre.
Counterbalancing the antiprelatical tracts of 1641 42 are the antimonarchical polemics of 1649 55.
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