How To Use Countervail In A Sentence
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Integrity in promise-keeping, at times, confronts countervailing considerations of human welfare.
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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"
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The prospects for improving labor standards at the domestic level are constrained by two countervailing market forces.
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They are trained to presume that a dead infant is stillborn unless there is countervailing evidence.
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At the level of popular feeling, and not just in the Muslim world, a countervailing balance is taking shape.
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I consider offering the countervailing maxim ‘punctuality is the politeness of kings’, but feel it might sound priggish.
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If China refuses, the United States imposes a countervailing duty on Chinese exports , say 25 percent.
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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.
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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.
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It may be that, among girls, a desire to achieve academic goals countervails motivations to use drugs.
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The outgo of rent which has no countervailing effect may be one.
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A Chinese military posture that is too aggressive could produce a countervailing coalition among its neighbors, thereby weakening China's hard and soft power.
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One would seek to undercut or outmaneuver countervailing coalitions, a latter-day British grand strategy, so to speak.
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Because the commodity doth not countervail the discommodity; for the inconveniences which thereby do arise are much more many; for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief.
Castle Rackrent
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Otherwise the actions designed to exert countervailing pressure could result in political disaster.
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These countervailing denominational fears were embodied in legion by Thomas Jefferson in his "Bill For Establishing Religious Freedom":
Stuart Whatley: Pulpit Politicking Returns for 2010 Election Cycle
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If the Clintons are a part of the colluding elites who enjoy personal advancement within the gridlock, then I hope they get countervailed along with the rest of the old establishment.
Clinton 'Advisor': Obama Is For People Who Want "Imaginary Hip Black Friend"
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The Hynix case inclines us to once again question government's diplomatic ability, as well as its corporate lobbying skills, as the local media long warned that the chipmaker would face a severe countervailing duty.
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China believes its anti-dumping and countervailing measures on U.S. chicken products are legal and in line with World Trade Organization rules, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on its website www.mofcom.gov.cn.
China says policies legal after U.S. challenge on chicken
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When it is, one must look to international law for countervailing principles, and to politics, above all, for a way through.
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You don't call it countervail, you call it something else.
Free Trade in Historical Perspective
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There was nobody strong enough to lead an effective countervailing force against the dictator.
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That's the countervailing force that impels us to behave in a civilised manner and reach out peaceably to others, even others perceived as alien.
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Article 42 The countervailing duty shall be separately determined on the basis of the amount of subsidy of different export operators.
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And by bringing lots of regular people together, we can actually countervail the influence that big corporations have on American politics.
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An agenda that can countervail the one-line simple answers of said ‘conservatives’ that encompass the whole gamut of public policy.
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The American position is that we are entitled to apply what are called "countervailing duties" against products that are subsidized by foreign governments.
Ian Fletcher: WTO Sides With Chinese State Capitalism Against the U.S.
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It was obvious they could help dramatically with office work (though it may be that the increased productivity has been almost entirely countervailed by the increased amount of virtual paperwork they generate).
Esther Dyson: The Quantification of Everything
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Their strategy is expansionist and im-perialist, and it is greatest in effect, of course, when there is no countervailing power.
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There are Web sites that dispense countervailing strategies.
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Brazil's economic model, which features a strong government infrastructure to regulate the disruptive effects that free markets can have on social institutions, is a post-Bretton Woods system hybrid that features strategic alliances with France and China that countervail turbulent free market influences that have been the hallmark of more than 80 years of having the US as its major trade partner.
Eric Ehrmann: October Surprises Bring Drama to Brazil's Presidential Race
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Hegemons have lots of power and because there is no countervailing force to stop them, they are tempted to use it repeatedly, and thereby overreach themselves.
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Because the commodity doth not countervail the discommodity; for the inconveniences which thereby do arise, are much more many; for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief.
Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale
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I should say too that the sequencing is exquisite here, & works to create an atmosphere of dreamy obsession & peril countervailed by both elegy & ingenious play with the material of language.
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The U. S. is permitted to respond to subsidized imports where the elements of a subsidy are met under the countervailing duty law.
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Producers countervailed against retailers and retailers against distributors.
Jamie Galbraith: 'The government is not, by any means, a pure representative of the working population.'
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But is there not a time when we have to admit, in all intellectual honesty, that our positions have been overwhelmed by countervailing data?
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A Common Law right was practically, though not theoretically, nullified by the existence of a countervailing equitable right.
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Too aggressive a military posture could produce a countervailing coalition among its neighbours that would weaken both its hard and soft power.
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Countervailing these reactions there is one other, and I think it is an emotion, a sensation rather, that entirely disarms these impurer thoughts and provides the surest signal one has encountered authentic art.
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However, there is also countervailing evidence to indicate that when concentration is extreme, innovation is squelched.
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Burke, particularly in his criticism of the French Revolution, evoked tradition and the mystique of history to countervail any present generation's fascination with newness and change.
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It was countervailed by the argument that, as the living languages have degenerated from the dead classical languages, to use the former as a guide is to interpret the perfected and optimal form in the “light” of the corrupted and obscured form.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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But we are concerned because there is a strong presidency without countervailing institutions.
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Yet countervailing this is a kind of silvern charm the moment he talks.
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Chinese military posture that is too aggressive could produce a countervailing coalition among its neighbors, thereby weakening China's hard and soft power.
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There are armed men enow to countervail all your efforts at escape.
The Monastery
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Any particular discretionary matter may be subject to countervailing matters of equal or greater weight.
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But without countervailing efforts by policymakers, the ebb of recession can sink many boats as well.
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As its memorandum shows, the Commission has to consider and balance in many cases the important but countervailing freedoms of privacy and of expression.
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Even the broadest discretion is constrained by the need for there to be countervailing circumstances justifying interference with human rights.
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However, the colonially appointed Durrani sovereign's apparent benevolence on this point was in fact countervailed because in the same letter he also announced the deputation of a mirza and two subcontracted agents of Nur Muhammad to collect arat or export commission fees from all nomads carrying Afghan fruit to India. 50
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
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The correlation between throughput growth and GDP growth is sufficiently strong historically so that in the absence of countervailing policies even GDP growth frequently increases illth faster than wealth.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ The world is in over-shoot and what to do about it
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Hereupon the King cast aside all cark and care and robed the wizards and dismissed them with splendid honoraria; and he resigned himself to the will of Heaven and acknowledged that the decrees of destiny may not be countervailed.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A Chinese military posture that is too aggressive could produce a countervailing coalition among its neighbors, thereby weakening China's hard and soft power.
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His bill, which has 132 co-sponsors, would authorize the Commerce Department to apply anti-dumping and countervailing duties against "injurious imports" from countries with undervalued currencies.
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So just knowing that the nightmare hasn't come to pass, that there was still at least a little opening to wedge in countervailing views and loosen the incumbent's grip on power, makes me feel much better.
Is That Legal?: Three cheers for peaceful transitions of power!
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This was introduced about seven years ago, after some industries insisted on protection against imports to countervail the sales tax being paid on domestic products.
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But the deeper one looks, the more countervailing stories one finds, and before long the past is as muddy as the present.
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Because of economies of scale with large corporations there is a strong tendency towards monopoly or at least oligopoly that libertarian almost always seem to ignore that requires a countervailing power and that can only be a government large (strong) enough to police the monopolies - oligopolies.
Technological Determinishm, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The countervailing duty law is a counterpart to the U.S. antidumping duty law.
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There is a countervailing trend to smear the left side of the density curve to the left, re-establishing a gaussian distribution.
Atlas Left a Big Tip, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The Chinese countervailing duty petition on automobiles could do more to change Chinese-U. S. trade relations than summits and presidential visits.
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This wouldn't happen if there had been a countervailing power to balance America.
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I have not been able to envision another potential situation whereby the entrenched power of the few could be successfully countervailed and balanced out by ordinary citizens, except what Barack Obama has been able to achieve with his grassroots campaign in terms of true public financing and in terms of true citizen involvement.
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EU governments have 13 months from the beginning of a probe to impose five-year anti-subsidy -- or "countervailing" -- duties and 15 months to impose definitive anti-dumping measures.
China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper
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As stated in the provisions of Special Import Measures Act, if Canada wants to take countervailing measures against another country's subsidy, the first step is determining the existence of subsidy.
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They are curtailed because it is unreasonable to reach a decision which contravenes or could contravene human rights unless there are sufficiently significant countervailing considerations.
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Blame the fact that families don't sit down to dinner together anymore - at least not often enough to countervail the influence of toxic culture.
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The countervailing forces are an absolute faith in her achievements and in the redeeming power of art.
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Yet this margin loss was countervailed by cost cutting.
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Too aggressive a Chinese military posture could produce a countervailing coalition among its neighbors that would weaken both its hard and soft power.
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It may be that, among girls, a desire to achieve academic goals countervails motivations to use drugs.
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Good imported witch-hazel, every twig ensorcelled by a nasty charm called the countervail that gives even more gold to his rich friends.
Archive 2005-08-01
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Their strategy is expansionist and im-perialist, and it is greatest in effect, of course, when there is no countervailing power.
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If we are to enjoy global macro - economic stability, a creditworthy set of countervailing borrowers must emerge.
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But that's the point; there will always be countervailing arguments.
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All codes need to be countervailed, sometimes even swamped in their negation, on pain of rigidity, enervation, the atrophy of social cohesion, blindness, perhaps ultimately self-destruction A Secular Age, 50.
Archive 2008-01-13
