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.
Traditionally, influential provincial governors have instead served as the primary counterweight to the presidency.
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.
Strategists in the Pentagon began to see India as a superpower-in-waiting and a democratic counterweight to China.
There is strong and growing support across Europe for the European Union becoming a powerful counterweight to America.
It is the world's largest democracy, and, in the long run, a potential counterweight to a rising China.
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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Even if he fails, the governors could be a counterweight to the feckless Congress and the lawless social movements.
Mr Letwin's palpable niceness would provide a useful counterweight to Mr Howard's chilliness.
In its homeland, the Gulen movement is seen as a counterweight to ultra-nationalism.
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.
Welcoming the leaders to Venezuela, Mr Chavez said increased economic co-operation was needed as a counterweight to US power in the region.
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.
France sees Russia as a great diplomatic ally, another counterweight to America.
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