How to Use countervail in a Sentence

countervail

verb

• So for all the bad headwinds in the House, there's countervailing headwinds in the Senate races.
  — Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
• The countervailing force to Mr. Trump is women—candidates and voters alike—who have formed the core of the Democrats’ hopes.
  — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2018
• The center-field fence at Curley measures out to about 330 feet, but in the springtime, countervailing winds kill most home run bids.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 1 June 2017
• For better or worse, tourism represents one of the few countervailing forces against this trend.
  — Stephen Heyman, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Nov. 2019
• The Spanish flu, meanwhile, is ravaging the city, countervailing the vibrant, creative forces of music and public works, the striving, the dreams of longevity.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
• Yet Karplus includes a tree in the foreground as a countervailing vertical.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2018
• Rome, Paris and Warsaw fear that without Britain as a countervailing force in the bloc, Germany would become too powerful.
  — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 19 June 2016
• Faith is always an irrational passion: an act of trust that runs in the face of countervailing evidence.
  — John Kaag, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• When collective action, regulation, and the countervailing force of the state have been counted out, there is only the self to stand against the might of these adversaries.
  — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2019
• The influence of the unions, which used to provide a countervailing force, has waned with their membership and with anti-union legislation.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• There’s also a concern Mexico would put countervailing tariffs on the U.S. goods if the new trade war escalates.
  — Ana Radelat, courant.com, 5 June 2019
• As a result of these countervailing forces, this case isn’t very different from other free-speech cases the Supreme Court has entertained in recent years.
  — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Feb. 2018
• So Democrats have all the incentive to make demands of their own, at the very least to apply countervailing pressure against Republican demands.
  — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
• China will impose countervailing tariffs the same day, less than a week after Canada does the same in reaction to U.S. restrictions on steel and aluminum.
  — Matthew Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
• That's because the target countries can simply impose countervailing tariffs on an equal volume of their imports from the U.S., leading to no net gain—as China has threatened to do.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The teacher unions currently have no countervailing force.
  — Karl Zinsmeister, National Review, 9 Oct. 2019
• Polls: government should do more Trump’s budget also faces a countervailing shift in public opinion.
  — Linda Feldmann, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2017
• Meanwhile, there is no countervailing benefit to us with Turkey.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
• So the hot-desking drive has been accompanied by a countervailing trend, in which this elite get better facilities.
  — The Economist, 28 Sep. 2019
• The lack of enthusiasm among investors and executives suggests a countervailing force is at work.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• Software and digital signal processors then use the car’s audio system to create countervailing waveforms that are broadcast over the speakers to block the original noise.
  — John R. Quain, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2016
• This is much less transparent than the more frequently used trade laws on anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguards, which have figured in thousands of investigations in the past 40 years.
  — Chad P. Bown, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2018
• In periods when there is no agreement, and the United States imposes an anti-dumping or countervailing duty, the U.S. government collects the $1 billion.
  — Chad Bown, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2017
• So while Amazon is trusted, no countervailing force has the inclination or capacity to restrain it.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
• A single centralizing force such as Trump is best neutralized not with a single source of opposition but with a swarm of countervailing forces, like antibodies to a virus or Lilliputians to a Gulliver.
  — Eric Liu, The Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2017
• Government spending to countervail the pandemic in Mexico is among the lowest in the world, and that will most likely condemn millions to sustained and, in the eyes of numerous economists, unnecessary struggles.
  — Azam Ahmed, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2020
• Anti-dumping and countervailing duty laws: Softwood lumber The fourth major trade action of Trump’s first 100 days involved softwood lumber imports from Canada.
  — Chad Bown, Washington Post, 12 June 2017
• Covering a Congress just starting its descent into partisan gridlock, Mr Komarow’s countervailing courtesy led the press corps to choose him as their negotiator over access.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• And yet at the same time there are countervailing forces that push us in the opposite direction, and so America exists in this perpetual tension between liberal democracy and reactionary fascism.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 15 Dec. 2018
• This clearly required countervailing measures by the government.
  — Jayati Ghosh, Quartz India, 5 Aug. 2019

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