'countervailing' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use the word when you want to refer to something that has a balancing or offsetting effect, such as a policy, force, or opinion. For example: The President implemented a countervailing policy to encourage economic growth.
And countervailing appointments were also made: Brownite stalwarts such as Nick Brown and Ed Miliband were promoted; left-wing Jon Trickett was made Mr Brown's parliamentary private secretary; and Lord Adonis, a champion of schools reform, was shifted to transport.As a whole, the reshuffle was a hedge.
Corporations were acting as countervailing forces on one another.
Although there are countervailing arguments Mr Hague's critics retort that the police had good reason to alter their behaviour after the abuses and incompetence uncovered by Lord Macpherson this is surely the sort of issue politicians should be allowed to broach without being muzzled.
The departure of Mr Davis, who grew up on an estate and has a squashed nose to prove it, has made that easier and Mr Pickles's countervailing presence more valuable.
This is different from countervailing data that argues that your initial thesis is wrong.
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 "logic" of these countervailing arguments, says an official, leaves you with a proposition that is vintage Brussels: "all countries must be engaged voluntarily".
Back then, there were alarming calls from French and German firms for countervailing subsidies so that they could compete with newly cheap Italian goods, he recalls.
The issue also includes stories on the implementation of the free-trade agreement between Colombia and the United States, foreign businessmen in Cuba and countervailing trends in Mexico's drug war, as well as an obituary of Carlos Fuentes, a Mexican author.
Putting the money into ring-fenced funds should prevent a free-for-all among politicians and the corruption that could ensue.But there are countervailing pressures.
The World Trade Organisation allows several types of protection: safeguards against import surges, countervailing duties against subsidised goods, and duties against foreign products deemed to have been dumped on local markets.These rules have long been misused as a cover for protectionism.
