Sample sentences for COUNTERVAIL

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Definition

to counterbalance, or oppose (the effects of something)—often in such a manner that the effects being opposed are neutralized (made ineffective)

The US Constitution was designed to balance interests through a system of countervailing powers.

countervailing = counterbalance

She wants the U.S. to harden its cybersecurity to countervail increasingly sophisticated cyberattack capabilities.

countervail = neutralize

countervailing = offsetting (intended to counterbalance)

The United States imposes countervailing duties on imported products that allegedly received foreign government subsidies.
James Bovard -- The Myth of Fair Trade -- http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1024&print=Y&full=1 (retrieved 06/28/06)

countervailing = offsetting (intended to counterbalance)

countervail = counteract

countervailed = neutralized

But he saw that other factors were exerting a countervailing force.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City

countervailing = opposing or counterbalancing

Without the countervailing force of labor unions, companies will increasingly seek out and exploit the most vulnerable members of society.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation

countervailing = opposing (to counterbalance something else)

I sat staring before me, trying in vain to devise some countervailing thought.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds

countervailing = counterbalancing

There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.
Walt Whitman -- Leaves of Grass

countervails = neutralizes

  But come what sorrow can,
  It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
  That one short minute gives me in her sight.
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

countervail = offset (counterbalance with equal weight)

Gowns and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.
Walt Whitman -- Leaves of Grass

countervails = neutralizes

There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.
Walt Whitman -- Leaves of Grass

countervail = neutralize

Only Eli Lavon dared to offer a countervailing opinion.
Daniel Silva -- The Black Widow

countervailing = opposing (to counterbalance something else)

The silk bordure was furred with countervail silver and blue.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King

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