Sentence examples for countervailing force from inspiring English sources

There's a lot of indirection and redundancy and countervailing force built into a big country.

But there's another, countervailing force at work here: a mighty tug of gravity that keeps pulling the show down to earth and even threatens to bury it.

Without some countervailing force, the Muslim Brotherhood is likely to use the democratic process to come to power, but to rule using fundamentalist Shariah law.

There are just too many suits in cahoots working to keep us spellbound, too little in the way of countervailing force.

Democracy can be a countervailing force.

There is no effective countervailing force.

It meets a countervailing force or splits in two.

The president is a one-man countervailing force and dispensary of justice.

Malala responded to the violence of the Taliban with her own countervailing force: words against bullets.

Mr Dean is the first to identify a countervailing force among liberals and moderates.

But in the Dixit-Stiglitz model, this monopolising logic is offset by a countervailing force: consumers' taste for variety.