countervailing

The countervailing forces that can combat misinformation—literature, art, logic, critical thinking, civics, and history—have meanwhile been deemphasized in education in favor of “workforce development.”

In other words, when there was countervailing power in our system.

Only a countervailing principle like equal citizenship can stop it from expanding indefinitely—as it has been doing.

The state likely will lead in the countervailing lawsuits when (insert a horrid disease here) is found to be linked to e-puffing.

The only reliable countervailing power to organized money is organized people.

Contrary to common assumptions, the Bush-Kerry campaign of 2004 offers no countervailing example.

Excessive secrecy and the countervailing need to share information only exacerbate and complicate the situation.

(p. 23) Nor are even misfortunes when they occur, as occur they must, utterly devoid of some countervailing joys.

One countervailing influence to my drift to Toryism in those days was Margaret's quite religious faith in the Liberals.

Hence the overpursuit of any one subject may be hurtful, unless duly balanced by countervailing forces.

That, to my mind, is a very great and insuperable objection, and I do not see any countervailing advantage.

From 1899 to 1904 a countervailing duty was imposed on bounty-fed beet sugar.