countervail

How To Use countervail In A Sentence

• Integrity in promise-keeping, at times, confronts countervailing considerations of human welfare.
• I think what also countervailed any condemning supposition that Roosevelt sacrificed servicemen to get the US into a war with Japan was the real determination, lethality and tenacity of the dictatorial enemies of the US, and Europe. AP Poll: Bush Is Both the Biggest "Hero" and "Villain"
• The prospects for improving labor standards at the domestic level are constrained by two countervailing market forces.
• They are trained to presume that a dead infant is stillborn unless there is countervailing evidence.
• At the level of popular feeling, and not just in the Muslim world, a countervailing balance is taking shape.
• I consider offering the countervailing maxim ‘punctuality is the politeness of kings’, but feel it might sound priggish.
• If China refuses, the United States imposes a countervailing duty on Chinese exports , say 25 percent.
• At the same time, state leaders are facing countervailing pressures from reform-minded groups that want to lessen the impact of partisan politics on a process that has been plagued for decades by shenanigans - and symbolized by the oddly shaped district maps that take their nickname "gerrymander" from an early 19th-century Massachusetts governor, Elbridge Gerry, who drew the first one in the shape of a salamander. NYT > Home Page
• The department's separate recalculation of the cash deposit rate cut the countervailing duty to nine per cent and the anti-dumping levy to four per cent.
• It may be that, among girls, a desire to achieve academic goals countervails motivations to use drugs.