Sentence examples for intellectual counterweight from inspiring English sources

How do we built the intellectual counterweight to persuade them?

Those skills, some observers say, could make her an able politician on the Supreme Court and allow her to serve as an intellectual counterweight to Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative who is known for his acerbic questioning.

Unctad, set up in 1964, is hailed as the intellectual counterweight to the World Bank and the IMF, a "voice in the wilderness" against Washington Consensus policies urging ever-more liberalised trade and deregulated finance.

Mr. Obama is seeking someone who can serve as an intellectual counterweight to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., but who possesses the same consensus-building skills as Justice Stevens -- skills that might tip a 5-4 courtowardrd more liberal outcomes.

In many other areas on the Court, too, Breyer's pragmatism is considered the intellectual counterweight to Scalia's textualist philosophy.

But there's also a counterweight.

Let the military carry guns and wage war if war be necessary; but our job in higher education is the stewardship of the life of the mind, which, quite often, requires a vigorous advocacy for intellectual steadfastness as the counterweight to raging and bloodthirsty emotions.

(Mr. Basel actually called his paper The Counterweight).

The appeal to a transcendent reality over "two thousand years of Western history" is not due to intellectual or spiritual inertia or prejudice it provides the needed counterweight to the world of flux and discontinuity that is so characteristic of virtually all experience.

In France, the notion of the European Union as a "counterweight" to American power still lurks, although President Nicolas Sarkozy has done much to dispose of such Gallic intellectual baggage.

No sentimental melodic counterweight.