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compensate for or counterbalance- She wants the U.S. to harden its cybersecurity to countervail increasingly sophisticated cyberattack capabilities.
countervail = compensate for or counterbalance
- They passed countervailing tariffs.
- 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 - They claim the international law is countervailed by their national interest.
- Wal-Mart developed a new program to countervail Target's ad campaign.
- Because both parties had fifty senators, each party could countervail the other at every turn.
- 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)
- U.S. countervailing policies resemble the scene from Don Quixote in which Quixote beats Sancho Panza and insists that he is actually beating a horde of evil demons.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)
- 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
- I sat staring before me, trying in vain to devise some countervailing thought.H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
- The silk bordure was furred with countervail silver and blue.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- But he saw that other factors were exerting a countervailing force.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- Gowns[37] and pecuniary foundations,[38] though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- Only Eli Lavon dared to offer a countervailing opinion.Daniel Silva -- The Black Widow
- 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
- 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
- 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
countervailing = offsetting (intended to counterbalance)
countervail = offset (counterbalance with equal weight)