It can also act as a counterbalance.

As China buys all these crappy cars, we should be riding things like this. Counterbalance.

If Paris got together with Berlin, Britain got together with Vienna and Rome to provide a counterbalance.

She wondered whether such programmes provided for monitoring mechanisms or plans of action to counterbalance those effects.

So during this time I needed some kind of counterbalance for this crazy, crazy existence of going to these long, idiotic meetings.

It is also desirable to promote actions in the intellectual, artistic and political spheres that provide a counterbalance to the ethos of the global economy.

To counterbalance this, as it were, a Prime Minister, the Head of Government, will be appointed by the President from among the members of the Opposition.

The ultimate impact of the Agreement will depend on whether the unilaterally granted preferential market access for the least developed countries can counterbalance the negative effects of this phase out.

Clubs are allowed to spend heavily on acquiring players but they have to counterbalance that with legitimate sources of income, allowing them to approach break even on their football related business.

Inside of the bronze ball there's a lead weight that is free swinging on an axle that's on two bearings that pass in between, across it, like this, that counterbalance this weight.

The United Nations was best suited for that purpose, since it could not only counterbalance the negative aspects of globalization but could also facilitate the effective integration of all countries into the world economy.

But herein lies the problem for state capitalism inclusive institutions require a private sector powerful enough to counterbalance and check the state. Thus, state ownership tends naturally to remove one of the key pillars of an inclusive society.

The Court has also overturned many decisions, such as those affecting the appointment of judges by the Supreme Court and the Media Law of 1992, and has thus become an important counterbalance to the executive and legislative powers.

The models used by all of the forecasting organizations dramatically underestimated the fiscal multiplier the impact of changes in government spending on output. Second, they overestimated the extent to which quantitative easing (QE) by the monetary authorities that is, printing money could counterbalance fiscal tightening.

Tiger mothering might seem to be a useful counterbalance to such permissiveness, but both extremes leave something out. Chua s focus is unrelentingly on solitary activities in the home, with no encouragement of group activities, or of concern for others, either in school or in the wider community.

New markets and spheres for applying one s intellect, education, and talents are appearing constantly. The world s power centers are beginning to counterbalance each other, undermining hegemonic ambitions and heralding a creative instability based on genuine multipolarity, with people gaining greater freedom to define their fate in the global arena.

There is little doubt that the SCO is an instrument for Russia and China to make the case for a multi polar world based on regional security blocs that counterbalance American strategic hegemony. It would therefore be tragic if the EU missed the opportunity to tie Kazakhstan firmly to the West.

As rising authoritarian powers, China or Russia, for example, have no reason to use their growing international influence to promote democracy on the contrary, they increasingly counterbalance the efforts of Western countries to promote political liberty. As statist models of economic development become more appealing, democratic governance will become less so.

Partly motivated by a desire to counterbalance China s rising geopolitical influence, Japan and the US have sought to draw India into a multilateral alliance consisting of democratic countries in the Asia Pacific region. Indeed, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to forge a democratic security diamond with the US, Australia, and India.

This leaves attraction a more potent source of power than one might expect. China, for example, has been attempting to use soft power to cultivate a less threatening image one that it hopes will undermine, and even discourage, the coalitions that have been emerging to counterbalance its rising economic and military might.

Any agreement with Iran would require consent from Israel and the Gulf countries, which do not share the same objectives. And the US cannot reach an accord with Pakistan without India s consent, which America would be unable to force, especially given that it relies on India to counterbalance China s growing clout in Asia.

In a sense, these Sunni groups are creating an armed enclave in northern Lebanon to counterbalance the armed Shia enclaves in Beirut, the south, and the Bekaa region. Hezbollah has also been shaken by the abduction and continued detention of a dozen Lebanese Shiites some close to Nasrallah by opposition forces in Syria.

We fully agree with the pronouncement that competent, accountable and responsive public institutions are essential for the achievement of development. The United Nations should foster a supportive international framework and try to counterbalance, through more efficient advocacy and better management of resources, the effects of the current decline in official development assistance.

In a sense, these Sunni groups are creating an armed enclave in northern Lebanon to counterbalance the armed Shia enclaves in Beirut, the south, and the Bekaa region. Hezbollah has also been shaken by the abduction and continued detention of a dozen Lebanese Shiites some close to Nasrallah nbsp by opposition forces in Syria.

More than half of the world s population now lives in cities, and any political renaissance must counterbalance the appeal of vast virtual communities with resilient urban societies. Citizens must become reengaged with the political process, educated in public affairs, and provided with real (not merely virtual) platforms to air their differences and debate alternative views.

But, despite deep historical animosity over World War II, there are increasing calls in the region for Japan to expand its influence to counterbalance China. In reality, Japan is not ready for this, because it still strongly adheres to self imposed restraints against influence over other countries in security and defense, including weapons exports.

The last decades have provided the regime with near ideal conditions to seize control over the Shiite clerical establishment in Iraq as well. Under Saddam Hussein, restrictions were imposed on the Shiite seminary in Najaf traditionally a counterbalance to Iran s Shiite establishment forcing the emigration of a number of clerics to the Iranian seminary in Qom.

The trouble with the human rights agenda is that its advocates become trigger happy, whereas Russia s foreign policy displays the virtues of conservative prudence. Its realism, which is shared by China, is thus an important counterbalance to the West s intemperate urge to meddle in the domestic affairs of countries that do not live up to its proclaimed standards.

We economists know that there are many drawbacks to expanding government beyond its basic role of providing true public goods like defense, public safety, and justice, as well as providing citizens with incentives to counterbalance the effects of true market failures. If the private market has the flexibility of two hands, government bureaucracy has at best two thumbs.

Since it is the opposition apos s role to bear witness and to counterbalance the actions of those in government, which is a way of participating in the life of their States, the representatives of the opposition would like to see the introduction, in their respective States, of an opposition charter establishing the rights and duties of members of the opposition.

As the warm welcome given to Hillary Clinton on her recent swing through Asia even in communist Vietnam appears to show, Southeast Asians are more than happy to hang on to Pax Americana for a bit longer, out of fear of China. Other Asian countries might even be drawn closer to Japan, the only alternative to the US as a counterbalance to the Middle Kingdom.

That balance is between geographical equitability and efficiency, between transparency and the need for informal negotiations, and between democratization and the unlimited use of the veto. General Assembly 65th plenary meeting Fifty third session 20 November 1998 To counterbalance the additional burden that an enlargement of the Council would place on its operational ability, we need to modernize its working methods and decision making process.