He thought of himself, his editorials and his columns as a counterweight to the prevailing culture.
The only counterweight to that is for nonprofits to get serious about monitoring themselves.
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But what the public sector unions often provide is a counterweight to the state bureaucracy.
Between 2001 and 2008 it acted as a useful counterweight to the credit cycle.
And Tokyo might act as a counterweight to Washington in sensitive areas such as pharmaceuticals.
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Unlike Mr Powell, Ms Rice will not try to be a counterweight to Messrs Cheney and Rumsfeld.
There is strong and growing support across Europe for the European Union becoming a powerful counterweight to America.
The recording industry has long sought a counterweight to Apple's growing clout, but rivals such as Amazon.com Inc.
It is the job of independent directors to act as a counterweight to management and help protect shareholder value.
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Still, Mr Talabani's Kurds may want Mr Allawi in to act as a counterweight to the UIA's pushier elements.
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Mr Letwin's palpable niceness would provide a useful counterweight to Mr Howard's chilliness.
The French still hanker after a political counterweight to the European Central Bank.
One such service is the Counterweight Programme where experienced dieticians give nurses and GPs training and support over six months.
One conspiracy-minded reader suggested that food trends may have been orchestrated as a counterweight to longer living bankrupting retirement plans.
Between now and the midterm elections, Mr. Glaze hopes to build Mayors Against Illegal Guns into a more effective counterweight.
The film may be lightweight as history, but it offers a useful counterweight to the very nostalgia it trades on.
So if technology blows up, your exposure to energy, health care, or utilities is there to act as a counterweight.
The European Commission is looking at the idea of creating a home-grown rating agency as a counterweight to the American trio.
"A stronger online Thomas Cook will be a counterweight to the online travel agents (OTAs) such as Expedia and Hotels.com, " he said.
They are the counterweight to our overly packaged, branded, and commodified world.
It sought to build up the European project as a counterweight to America and to create its independent nuclear force de frappe.
Fortunately for Italy, the bond-buying programme of the European Central Bank (ECB) is providing a powerful counterweight to concerns about Italian politics.
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Second, the law was introduced as a counterweight to trade-enhancing measures in Europe, such as the rebate of value-added tax on exported goods.
The estate tax offers a modest counterweight against the development of a new plutocracy to rival the industrial barons of America's Gilded Age.
Helping with seed, advice, fertiliser, and offering the small farmer the ability to band together to counterweight the market power of the large buyers.
Insiders say they plan to ally their media interests, which include several newspapers and television networks, to create a heavier counterweight to Mr Berezovsky.
When as much as 80% of global inequality is explained by birth and background, education should be the counterweight, the driver of equal opportunity.
The fourth is that Mr Bush has the support of the Republican governors, who can act as a powerful counterweight to the education establishment.
The deal was made in the hopes of giving Glaxo a larger presence in Asia and offering a counterweight to sagging performance in the West.
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