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"counterbalance" Definitions
  1. counterbalance (to something) a thing that has an equal but opposite effect to something else and can be used to limit the bad effects of something

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These, we need all of these countries to work with us if we really want to counterbalance China and if we really want to counterbalance Russia.
Bingo. Hedge funds are there because they provide a counterbalance.
Rainier's bombastic outfit served as counterbalance to Kelly's modern dress.
It creates a current preference to counterbalance a historical preference.
Fortunately we still have private media that provide some counterbalance.
The Trump administration is counting on tariffs to counterbalance that.
China's power structure lacks a way to counterbalance this trend.
Working at the shelter was a counterbalance to the class.
It's revenue-neutral; so other taxes are reduced to counterbalance it.
And we could counterbalance that effort with another equally important one.
Enlarged hands and feet emphasize the bodies to counterbalance the faces.
Pence as a vice president is a needed counterbalance to Trump.
I think they're an important counterbalance to the threat Iran poses.
S. alliance as China seeks a European counterbalance to U.S. tariffs.
Stand on one leg and use the other as a counterbalance.
We create institutions meant to counterbalance our worst demons, temptations, and limitations.
It was envisioned to be part of a counterbalance to growing China.
He had been hired to help counterbalance Facebook's perception as left-leaning.
Two bites in, I desperately needed something salty to counterbalance it all.
Then there's the characteristic bump, the counterbalance to the roly-poly shell.
Businesses may be looking to find a counterbalance to Amazon&aposs marketplace.
"McDonald's provides a stabilizing, defensive counterbalance in a volatile market environment," Glass said.
On the strategic side, India serves as a counterbalance against a rising China.
To counterbalance, China turned to its foreign exchange reserves to buy back yuan.
The American laborer needs a union to counterbalance the asymmetrical weight of power.
If Germany is too powerful, Britain should work with France to counterbalance it.
Noname has invented herself as a nonchalant counterbalance to mass-market hip-hop.
It acts as an indispensable counterbalance to our nation's hard (read: military) power.
Hence the name Sunday Goods, a counterbalance to the Instagram-ubiquitous Sunday scaries.
But more importantly, the counterbalance to variability is not coal — that's a category error.
Diplomats say it views the bloc as a vital counterbalance to the United States.
The fats contained in Gruyère, Gorgonzola, and the like counterbalance wine's mouth-drying tannins.
But it was nowhere near enough to counterbalance the roaring pushback from the GOP.
Why don't we bring in a consistent voice from the right to counterbalance this?
As a counterbalance to the mayor, the Council oversees and approves land-use actions.
Washington sees its relationship with India as critical, partly to counterbalance China's rising power.
It's a welcome counterbalance to the data-driven, engineering mind-set gripping the culture.
It's usually seen as a counterbalance to the relentless focus on power and whiteness.
The government hopes that talk of a big fiscal boost will counterbalance the gloom.
" The group said it "aims to act as a counterbalance to the pharmaceutical lobby.
To counterbalance my healthy lunch, my sister packs me a hot fudge cheesecake square, too.
Yet this is still not enough energy to counterbalance the heat bleeding off the ocean.
He also serves as a blatantly antagonistic counterbalance to keep Hank from seeming too evil.
This means that there will be no counterbalance to unpopular austerity policies promoted by Germany.
The GCC, created to counterbalance larger neighbours and promote economic integration, is split, perhaps irreparably.
These strengths counterbalance Chile's low per-capita GDP and high commodity dependence relative to peers.
Continuing consolidation of the industry has also led regulators to seek to counterbalance their influence.
Beefing up your savings can help counterbalance the motherhood impact on that Social Security check.
He also views the foundation's work as a counterbalance to the overheated Chinese art market.
I must now go do something very manly and bad ass to counterbalance this post.
The $100 million investment could serve as a counterbalance to Trump's gargantuan campaign bank account.
In Israel, the now marginalized Labour Party provided a true counterbalance to the hawkish Likud.
She would be a wonderful counterbalance to the Trump administration's half-baked, wild-eyed populism.
Potential filmgoers may actually find this revised system a useful counterbalance to the critical score.
Now everyone in Washington is demanding he stay in Syria to counterbalance Russia and Iran.
They also serve as a necessary and needed counterbalance to the seriousness of most plaques.
Our efforts to counterbalance an aggressive Russia depend in substantial part on a strong Ukraine.
The deal had been pitched as a counterbalance to China's entry into the European market.
Almost as an exact counterbalance to the Freedom Caucus are the more moderate House Republicans.
The propellers are arranged in such a way to counterbalance the weight of the drone itself.
With Trump's sights firmly set upon Clinton, Democrats hope to counterbalance the impending onslaught of attacks.
But some worry that Mr Amin is less of a counterbalance and more of an albatross.
Yet the beauty of his ballet, which should have acted as a counterbalance, is not replicated.
Chuck Schumer -- the incoming Senate Democratic Leader -- and acts as something of a counterbalance to Sen.
Thankfully, there have been some recent releases to counterbalance the existence of movies like Dirty Grandpa.
Ideally, college would function as a counterbalance to the rigged games of American capitalism and meritocracy.
The armed left-wing group Redneck Revolt had showed up to counterbalance the open-carry demonstrators.
The Montlaur exhibit offers a sobering counterbalance that shows the tremendous cost of the Allied victory.
"Much depends on how Pompeo will counterbalance him at State and Mattis at DOD," Salem said.
Rather, it means filling a portfolio with multiple kinds of assets that can counterbalance each other.
What can you do in your personal life to counterbalance the negative aspects of your job?
Perhaps the purpose was to counterbalance the night's warmth, especially concerning messages of community and inclusion.
"It's a lovely counterbalance to Una's sweetness that she has this interesting past," Mr. Gatiss said.
Will they sit back and hope to someday appoint enough new judges to counterbalance Trump's appointees?
The group is accelerating the development of new treatments to counterbalance growing competition from generic drugs.
French President Emmanuel Macron is an advocate of nuclear but the popular Hulot served as a counterbalance.
He was easygoing, with enough gravitas to counterbalance his silliness, and she was drawn to the combination.
The president also views Saudi Arabia as a vital counterbalance to Iranian influence in the Middle East.
That counterbalance was key in re-launching a deposit product, which is now being called cash management.
So the hope is they counterbalance each other, or that the right side wins in the end.
At the very least, they provide a counterbalance to the White House's ongoing and escalating Russia problem.
Levies on drivers to counterbalance the externalities of congestion and pollution are common in the Western world.
She met Chinese aggression in the South China Sea by organizing regional diplomatic organizations to counterbalance China.
"You could argue that in world today, the internet provides a counterbalance to elite propaganda," Bonn says.
I needed to win by 18 points to be able to counterbalance the rest of the state.
Hopefully this list will help counterbalance all those horror movies people are trying to foist on you. 
She has to do something to counterbalance all that time she is spending in Cleveland, after all.
"She has demonstrated that she is a very formidable congressional counterbalance to the White House," said Rep.
Witnesses could even be cross-examined by interested parties to provide some counterbalance to the government's perspective.
Across the court, Ehla DeJesus, 17, and her sister Rochellyn, 9, moved as if to counterbalance Garces.
Unlike the early 20th century Italians, Nigerians have very little with which to counterbalance negative global narratives.
It was quite obvious that Germany needed royal leadership to counterbalance this regime of corporals and tobacconists.
I feel the heavy resistance as I lift the paddle, making a quick adjustment to counterbalance myself.
All slack flow without definition and drive, the dancing provides no match or counterbalance for Gandini's virtuosity.
"I want pressure from below to counterbalance the pressure management is already feeling from above," he said.
A bigger EITC, or a similar kind of work-conditional cash transfer, could counterbalance some of those losses.
The most common one involved including a patriotic Middle Eastern or Muslim American to counterbalance depictions as terrorists.
Despite those criticisms, Britain's conditional seal of approval is important for Huawei as a counterbalance to American pressure.
The two countries' partnership is seen as critical in Washington, which is seeking to counterbalance China's increasing power.
A tail-like flywheel also helps provide counterbalance to keep the in-flight Salto in the right position.
Last year I tried to counterbalance the lack of news at CP+ by shooting film to cover it.
It's a desperately needed chill counterbalance of cracking a cold one in a league gone superteam survival mode.
Advertisers are unbelievably empowered online, and this power is in desperate need of a public, non-commercial counterbalance.
Mr. Kaplan, who is based in Washington, was hired five years ago to counterbalance Facebook's left-leaning perception.
Giant pussy bows adorned many of the looks, lending a girlish, lighthearted counterbalance to the collection's dark drama.
Within a day, lawyers had self-organized into a highly effective counterbalance, adding legal force to righteous outrage.
Some already think there's too much power in Germany — and that London has acted as a financial counterbalance.
He added that those artists are searching for value, to counterbalance "the difficult moment we are living" in.
As we've written before, messaging platforms have risen almost as a counterbalance to open-ended platforms like Facebook's.
To counterbalance industry influence, FINRA itself appoints another 13 persons as public governors — presumably to represent the public.
For Mr. Alesch, the idea of experiencing the goods in situ is a counterbalance to today's online marketplace.
Mr. Pence met with Asian leaders to shore up support to counterbalance China's increasing influence in the region.
Teddy Roosevelt advocated his "New Nationalism" as a counterbalance to the seemingly unchecked power of the robber barons.
That act of courage would empower Congress to assume its proper role as counterbalance to our calamitous president.
It also stood as a counterbalance against the special powers over treaties and appointments given to the Senate.
The small number of very limited consumer measures don't even begin to counterbalance the impacts of bank deregulation.
As historian Kevin Kruse noted, the NAACP was labeled as the extremist counterbalance to the KKK during the 1950s.
And his military background, his love of hunting and strong pro-life views all help counterbalance his party affiliation.
"It is clear that only when we are united can we counterbalance the most powerful global players," he said.
Back in Iran, they counterbalance powerful conservative religious forces and provide a bridge to the West for future rapprochement.
Obama has worked hard to develop the Philippines' partnership with the US and as a regional counterbalance to China.
But to counterbalance that, I know that I don't have to work all 40 hours of a traditional workweek.
As a result, India has been finding ways to counterbalance China's supremacy, particularly in the realm of development finance.
To counterbalance, China burned through $1 billion of its foreign exchange reserves since mid-2014 to buy back yuan.
It's a disaster for women, and a few weeks of paid leave don't counterbalance the budget's broad potential damage.
But Myanmar has opened up to the West in the past five years in part to counterbalance Chinese influence.
The album deals so much with dishonesty that he decided to counterbalance the subject matter with overtly honest writing.
But competitiveness and winning were so heavily emphasized, incredibly heavily emphasized, and there wasn't really a counterbalance to that.
Fitch does not believe SOMPO currently has sufficient international diversification to counterbalance its large holding of Japanese government debt.
In theory, the best counterbalance to an aggressive presidency and an assertive judiciary would be a strong legislative branch.
Proponents of the deal say it will serve as a counterbalance to protectionist policies promoted by the Trump administration.
Poland also wants to buy liquefied natural gas from U.S. companies to counterbalance Russian gas supplies in the region.
Oil money also helped him strengthen relationships with like-minded countries, especially those seeking to counterbalance the United States.
First, the survival of Deutsche Bank is a useful counterbalance in a global capital market dominated by American banks.
This increases the cheetah's agility by having the tail act as a counterbalance for the sudden changes in direction.
Trump administration officials want to coordinate with India to counterbalance China, by far the greatest challenger to American supremacy.
Louisville's property tax rates are relatively modest, but its local and state income tax rates more than counterbalance that.
So it makes a lot of sense that Oscar movies become a kind of counterbalance to the blockbuster behemoths.
Pack makes no attempt, for example, to present arguments that might counterbalance the claim of a lynching, however metaphorical.
It affects our bodies, which we then have to counterbalance with a culture that values perfection above all else.
Republicans, of course, want to make Pelosi an issue in order to try and counterbalance Trump's own bad numbers.
The money raised from the tariffs does little to counterbalance all the money Trump has added to the debt.
Beijing is hoping that consumer spending on sites like Alibaba's will counterbalance the slowdown in other parts of the economy.
These statements become a counterbalance — turning the story from an evidence-based report into a "he said, she said" situation.
Some leading industry figures have recognized that collective force among big brands is the only way to counterbalance that power.
Trump is also reluctant to disturb the strategic relationship with the kingdom, seen as an important regional counterbalance to Iran.
And the purveyors of propaganda want you to think that in order to be real, we've got to counterbalance everything.
But that seems unlikely, as Pakistan relies on militant proxies and the world's fastest-growing nuclear arsenal to counterbalance India.
That's because the U.S. and Japan are pushing to counterbalance Beijing's diplomatic, economic and military reach through their own schemes.
Stronger capital buffers are desirable to counterbalance structural balance sheet issues, such as high credit concentration, and absorb unexpected losses.
I wouldn't argue that the divide makes racist rumormongering possible, but it does destroy a necessary counterbalance to those rumors.
That helped counterbalance low or negative yields on European government bonds, in which one-third of the reserves are invested.
But it... Last year I tried to counterbalance the lack of news at CP+ by shooting film to cover it.
He is also reluctant to disturb the strategic relationship with the kingdom, seen as an important regional counterbalance to Iran.
There is no guarantee that all of this will be enough to counterbalance the power of big money in elections.
But to counterbalance its relatively lightweight place on LinkedIn's balance sheet, it's also one area with a lot of potential.
Science-t is a kind of social technology meant to counterbalance our individual propensity to error, through mutual fact-checking.
The RNC's release is a clear ploy to counterbalance her attacks on Trump, a businessman with no foreign policy experience.
Westmoreland It's home to a little more than 30% of the district's voters and is the Republican counterbalance to Allegheny.
That individual might be better suited to a smaller, less hectic city, like Lisbon, which could act as a counterbalance.
This is a book on a mission: to counterbalance what the author calls the "vanity projects" written by her male colleagues.
We've still got a long way to go to counterbalance the noise of evening-gown matches, mud wrestling, and strip teases.
Trump has held back on criticizing Saudi Arabia, calling them an important strategic ally and counterbalance to Iran in the region.
There are two rules intended to counterbalance each other as the primary process moves forward, and they may ensure that result.
They provide a counterbalance to the VC-centric outlook held by many founders, and provide alternative ways to think about funding.
Even more Republican votes elsewhere in the state are so far not enough to counterbalance that Democratic lead in Clark County.
India has been trying to counterbalance China's growing influence in Sri Lanka, which New Delhi has long considered its own backyard.
Earlier this year, the conservative Małgorzata Bochwic-Ivanovska was appointed to be her deputy director, presumably to counterbalance Wielga-Skolimowska's programming.
An upgrade could result from NDB's ability to sustain a sufficient capital buffer that can counterbalance weaknesses in its credit profile.
Counterbalance from rival powers like Israel and Saudi Arabia will remain in effect to prevent the rise of a regional hegemon.
A strong Colombia, we've learned, projects stability beyond its borders, especially as a counterbalance to the locus of instability in Caracas.
As their competition in Iraq heated up, Saudi Arabia and Iran sought to counterbalance each other through another weak state: Lebanon.
I started to use more to counterbalance the pain I was feeling of not knowing how to deal with those emotions.
The left has MMFA, which exposes offensive appearances and social media posts, and this new organization would serve as a counterbalance.
Moreover, the institutions of American democracy are beginning to check and counterbalance ominous actions and attitudes emitting from the Oval Office.
Washington relies on its alliance with the Philippines to cement its influence in Asia as a counterbalance to China's rapid rise.
He had also questioned the usefulness of NATO, and the concept of an alliance for common defense to counterbalance Moscow's belligerence.
This helps to counterbalance the group's small scale, its narrow geographic diversification (most of UK now), and overall market share position.
With uncertainty the enemy number one of growth and financial stability, the ECB was trying to provide a counterbalance, he said.
This, she argues, shows it is not enough simply to counterbalance the marketing of unhealthy foods with that of healthy foods.
Mr. Mattis, an experienced, retired four-star Marine general, had been seen as a counterbalance to Mr. Trump's unpredictable decision-making.
To counterbalance this, the government raised interest rates, which had been equal to retail-price inflation, to 3% plus RPI (currently 3.1%).
And its commitment to anonymity, not data collection, has served as a chaotic counterbalance to the most powerful forces on the web.
Today, he is one of the international leaders most popular in Washington, where Modi's government is seen as a counterbalance to China.
This work owes at least part of its existence to the belief that the secular left controls culture, and requires a counterbalance.
Successive Ukrainian governments have sought to attract Western investors as a counterbalance to Russian interference and oligarch control of key Ukrainian companies.
However, in the end they thought the fill in this original version was significantly superior — enough to counterbalance the short-answer overload.
Since then, Thailand's military generals have sought to counterbalance the country's ties with Washington and have launched a charm offensive towards China.
He is hoping that his "great national debate", a countrywide series of consultations and town-hall meetings, will counterbalance the hateful voices.
Is that meant as a direct counterbalance to the black man holding a "Racism Kills" sign on the sidewalk across the street?
With Barack Obama enjoying retirement and the Clintons off politics' main stage, Democrats no longer have a star figure to counterbalance Trump.
The optimism and excitement of the speakers, creators, and attendees serves as a counterbalance to recent claims that VR might be dead.
I wanted to use narrative—which I see as a deterministic, scripted force—to counterbalance the entropy and chaos in the simulations.
The need to comply with ever tighter environmental regulation is acting as a powerful counterbalance to the financial incentive to maximize production.
As long as we are the honorable women and wear the garb honorably, then we are a counterbalance to the stoner culture.
President Trump might believe Kim needs to counterbalance North Korea's military "deep state," which would oppose even the start of denuclearization negotiations.
In part, this was to counterbalance common masculine traits that a trans patient cannot alter, such as the size of her hands.
Mr. Modi seeks greater U.S. support for the Indian economy and security matters as he tries to counterbalance the rise of China.
With Ms. Dorrance, the counterbalance is between footwork of extreme rhythmic precision and a wild, unkempt physicality that dramatizes the sound production.
So if I interviewed an expert with a harsh opinion, I'd counterbalance that with the story of a person with a disability.
The American counterbalance must be more creative and comprehensive than just starting a trade war, as Mr. Trump is inclined to do.
And then later sort of focused on, you know, their role in the region and especially post-1979, their counterbalance to Iran.
The positions of CEO and chair were conceived as separate jobs so that one could serve as a counterbalance for the other.
Left-leaning critics who complain about a conspiratorial "Jewish lobby," on the other hand, seldom counterbalance those views with support for Israel.
It would also provide a small counterbalance to the threats to agricultural export demands from the current era of U.S. trade negotiations.
Apologies for all that pretense — it's too cold for ice cream here, and it'll counterbalance how frothy and fun this puzzle was.
So rather than continuing to fight that losing battle, he is trying to present his judgment as the counterbalance to Clinton's expertise.
There is, in other words, no counterbalance to Redstone's power, which had been designed as an effective monarchy, and that's the danger.
Especially when we have allies that are willing to go with us against China and willing to go with us to counterbalance Russia.
"National Democrats need to act as a counterbalance and I don't know what resources or support has been happening so far," Hutchins said.
Dec's script has two chief preoccupations: embracing death as a natural and inevitable counterbalance to life and the advancement of the #MeToo movement.
And he expanded on his dismissal of a new GOP argument for electing Republican senators to act as a counterbalance on Clinton's power.
Not only does this position allow for deep penetration, but it also lets the receiver relax while their weight acts as a counterbalance.
The bank's ratings reflect its lower capitalisation and higher risk appetite relative to peers, which counterbalance its satisfactory asset quality and improving franchise.
However, Fitch views positively the risk approach of the ABC group, especially in Brazil and the measures taken to counterbalance the markets' volatility.
With his pop sensibilities and gift for melody, Frey was an ideal songwriting counterbalance to Henley's seriousness and penchant for weighty social statements.
If the deal goes ahead, it would counterbalance large U.S. peers and support further consolidation of relatively fragmented markets in Europe, Moody's said.
The United States has so far relied on other capabilities as a counterbalance to China, like missiles fired from U.S. ships or aircraft.
But seeing this slice of her personality ... serves as a nice counterbalance to the prevailing political narrative that she is cold and calculating.
MANILA, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The Philippine central bank said on Friday it will continue to monitor external developments that counterbalance steady domestic demand.
This helps to counterbalance the seasonality of tourism, ensuring that hosts can continue inviting guests to their dinner table throughout the entire year.
Ukraine, which became an independent state after the Soviet Union collapsed, has long sought closer relations with the EU to counterbalance Russian influence.
A.I. presents the challenge of reckoning with our skewed histories, while working to counterbalance our biases, and genuinely recognizing ourselves in each other.
In Liechtenstein that can be much faster, and there it's important to have the Monarchy also as a counterbalance no accident is happening.
And he's appearing in an environment where there's no sole Democratic leader or counterbalance to Trump, who's consuming all the oxygen in media.
Two other issues are what to do about the visa lottery system and how to counterbalance giving DACA recipients a path to citizenship.
Hopefully if this menu item ever returns to American menus, the hash brown will provide the necessary carby counterbalance to the fried chicken. 
It's a theme he sees underscoring his life and work, in which he positions himself as a counterbalance to joyless and conservative tendencies.
If there is a counterbalance to the toxic masculinity exuded by Trump and men like him, it is 2017 NBA MVP Russell Westbrook.
However, the challenge is to ensure that sales growth comes through at a faster pace and that costs are moderated to counterbalance the investment.
" However, Clinton explained that she became a Yankees fan because she needed a successful team to "counterbalance the experience of losing every single year.
Zurkow's explicit focus on real-world problems in her artificial realms is a welcome counterbalance to the notion that technological advancement is always empowering.
And, as if to absolve herself or counterbalance this comment, she threw in the fact that her late cousin and stylist are both gay.
Social media and digital outlets have emerged as an important counterbalance to government-controlled media, but it also presents the risks of mass misinformation.
It was a powerful counterbalance to Ivanka Trump, Chelsea Clinton's friend who introduced her father, Donald Trump, at the Republican National Convention last week.
It seems to have escaped him that the reason for their painstaking creation in recent years was to counterbalance Mr Slim and other moguls.
In China, for example, the government wants to automate more low-paid work, to counterbalance a shrinking working age population and rising pay levels.
However, Host Inc's financial profile is stronger than ART's with higher fixed charge cover and a larger unencumbered asset pool that counterbalance these risks.
Perhaps almost as important, the TPP would help the U.S. counterbalance China's designs on boosting its influence in these countries and within the region.
Qassem Soleimani, to pull together a coalition to counterbalance al-Sadr, according to an Iraqi Shiite militia commander who is familiar with the meetings.
The goal, she said, was to provide a counterbalance to all the hate and violence that has been on display at some Trump rallies.
This was also the year I discovered red lipstick and foundation, but I hadn't yet figured out that I needed to counterbalance with blush.
With that in mind, and to counterbalance the poppiness of what we had done, we started Delicacies, which continues to be our sub-label.
Other goals: Pope Francis also sought to position himself as the counterbalance to nationalism in Europe, and warned again of the dangers of populism.
They represent the only opportunity to counterbalance a regime with unlimited power and no institutional oversight, that is armed and willing to exercise violence.
She called for the creation of a public advocate's office, funded by a lobbying tax, which would counterbalance corporate influence in the regulatory process.
And like "Schitt's Creek," the Alvarez family's story serves as "a counterbalance to all the negativity and divisiveness and the political climate," Schwartz added.
Coaches suggested the benefits of a graduate transfer can outweigh, or at least counterbalance, any style differences of an athlete accustomed to another playbook.
Then again, Paltrow and her staff don't do much to counterbalance or fact-check the claims of the experts they invite on the show.
It feels good in the hand and has just enough weight to counterbalance the cantilevering screen, making for an excellent one-handed reading experience.
"Renewed gains in incomes as well as rising home and equity values have acted to counterbalance the negative impacts from the hurricanes," Curtin added.
Bloomberg is also working to provide a Democratic counterbalance to President Donald Trump in parts of the country vital to his party in November.
It will take someone with the reason, experience and gravitas of General Mattis, plus his extra star, to counterbalance General Flynn's flights of fancy.
It started with his daughter Meghan McCain who in an emotional and tearful speech, appeared to describe her father as a counterbalance to Trump.
Mr. Osinbajo, the vice president, is a Christian from the south, and he acts a counterbalance to Mr. Buhari, a Muslim from the north.
Several senior advisers to Mr. Trump have long advocated stronger United States support for Taiwan, arguing that it would help to counterbalance Beijing's influence.
How might these collaborations counterbalance the news from last week that the company reduced its revenue expectations for the first time in 16 years?
He sees the Visegrad-4 as a counterbalance to western European countries, which tend to be more critical of Israel's policies toward the Palestinians.
They favour a gouvernement économique to counterbalance the ECB, with a euro-zone finance minister, a euro-zone budget and even a euro-zone parliament.
Dai-ichi Life has achieved the necessary international business diversification to counterbalance its heavy Japanese government debt holdings (30% at end-March 2016; consolidated basis).
The MCU movies have been the decade's strongest counterbalance against the unrelenting grittiness of superheroes, and Spider-Man is the peak of heroic fantasy fun.
Today she's worried that the heartburn medications she was using to counterbalance the effects of throwing up may have an effect on her bone density.
And perhaps almost as important, the TPP would help the U.S. counterbalance China's designs on boosting its influence in these countries and within the region.
When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the White House, he came prepared, managing to counterbalance Trump's grip with a combination of poise and control.
They are eager to court friendship with ASEAN (of which Laos is chairman this year), partly as a counterbalance to Chinese power in the region.
As The Associated Press reported, this worries some civic leaders, given that The Tribune stands as an independent counterbalance to the church-owned Deseret News.
You want to go with older white men, the counterbalance to that is going to be millennials, females and diversity coming back with a vengeance.
While boosters acknowledged his often combative tone and unconventional views would be an outlier at the Fed, they said Moore could offer a useful counterbalance.
Other combinations, like lap cheong (Chinese sausage) and seaweed aren't as obvious, but work wonderfully as a savory counterbalance to the sweetness of the waffle.
The director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Polling attributed some of these large leads to a desire among the electorate to counterbalance Trump.
I believe in the power of poetry, the power of art, to serve as a counterbalance to the darkness that surrounds us in the world.
Even last year, Ms. Merkel was seen as the leader of Europe, the defender of the liberal world order and the counterbalance to Mr. Trump.
The country is stimulating manufacturing to counterbalance its slowing economy, allowing more coal-based manufacturing that it had avoided in the past, Dr. Jackson said.
Yet his experience and discipline are the perfect counterbalance to the 57-year-old Beane's tendency to fly off the handle, especially after tough losses.
It's a fable of serendipitous encounters, of strokes of luck, which counterbalance both the harshness of life and the demons the three main characters battle.
Leaders in Beijing are worried, experts say, that Mr. Kim might try to counterbalance China's influence by embracing the United States, North Korea's longtime enemy.
Who is left to counterbalance the extreme partisanship running riot in America, and with every chance that it could worsen as people exult or despair?
The Trump administration sees weapons sales and technology transfers as part of a strategy to rely more on New Delhi to counterbalance Beijing in Asia.
But so far it has been the only major proposal to counterbalance the trillions of dollars in lost revenue that will result from tax cuts.
It was the most recent in a series of demands and insults that critics fear will undermine a decades-old alliance launched to counterbalance Soviet aggressions.
But experts have questioned China's willingness to enforce eh sanctions, saying that China needs a stable North Korea to counterbalance U.S. military influence in the region.
Its roots are in the Barelvi movement of Islam, which the generals cultivate as a counterbalance to the even more doctrinaire Deobandis of the Pakistani Taliban.
A more dynamic Pakistan would certainly act as a counterbalance to the deepening security relationship between India and America, which also provides military aid to Pakistan.
It has meant that there was little to counterbalance the greater wealth of the French and English clubs fueled by rich ownership and lucrative television deals.
This colorful side from the Offal Good cookbook author and chef of Jackrabbit in Portland's The Duniway hotel will counterbalance the rich dishes on the table.
They counterbalance interest payments received for those loans with the cost of loan notes they have taken to invest, arriving at tax of close to zero.
Utopia would be a perfectly well-balanced system where all elements affect each other, where forces counterbalance each other and that together forms the perfect network.
Unless this administration, or certainly the next one, deploys a strong domestic and global strategy to counterbalance China, our economic and national security will be imperiled.
A woman who sleeps only a few hours a night has all the time in the world to sift and sort, balance and counterbalance conflicting priorities.
There is a pressing need for the Senate to exercise a counterbalance to the "moderate" (read that to mean elitist) inclinations President Hillary Clinton will exhibit.
Mottram cautioned, however, that the incoming weather system is also bringing a lot of moisture, and snowfall at higher elevations could counterbalance some of the losses.
Following two families in America's racially segregated South in the period following WWII, Morrison's cinematography provides a classically beautiful rustic counterbalance for the film's ugly racism.
In order to counterbalance Russian influence, Lukashenko has reached out to the EU. The EU has, in turn, suspended sanctions after Belarus's relatively uneventful recent elections.
He told Reuters on Thursday he remained convinced consumer products offered a valuable counterbalance to pharmaceuticals and insisted his retirement was unrelated to break-up demands.
"The Council is supposed to be a counterbalance to the mayor, and we haven't had that in a long time," said Suri Kasirer, a city lobbyist.
Freddy's friend Doodle provides a necessary counterbalance to overwhelming and overbearing Laura, and Freddy's family of stuffed animals offer their two cents in comic-relief asides.
If you believe you are an impostor, you panic at the loss of even a drop of it and become angry and belligerent as a counterbalance.
But a didactic interlocutor — more catalyst than realized human being, more reflector than protagonist — does not and likely cannot counterbalance the empire of slavery Varina represents.
To its credit, the Post does cite disinformation experts like Graham Brookie, who makes it clear Heartland is trying to buy a counterbalance to Thunberg's appeal.
The Taliban would counterbalance Indian influence in Afghanistan, and an inclusive political settlement would prevent their radical ideology from taking hold or spilling across the border.
Stocks rebounded as the continuation of the earnings season and stronger-than-forecast consumer confidence data offered a positive counterbalance to the uncertainty around the coronavirus.
The purchase by Best Buy will help "counterbalance the pressure on both sales growth and margins of electronics products," GlobalData Retail managing director Neil Saunders said.
But if Iron Man established the MCU as a place where a cynical wink could win the day, First Avenger is its hyper-sincere, necessary counterbalance.
Zwicker discovered that this chemical influx and efflux will exactly counterbalance each other when an active droplet reaches a certain volume, causing the droplet to stop growing.
The problem historically is that none of Facebook's efforts have delivered enough revenue to publishers to counterbalance the time and effort that goes into producing the work.
As almost everybody lives ever longer, a reasonable supply of young people is needed to counterbalance—and fund the pensions of—a growing number of older folk.
This visit demonstrated the U.S. military's commitment to Ukraine and furthered our broader agenda of aligning with our EU partners to counterbalance Russian influence in the region.
Georgia strives to cultivate close ties with the West to counterbalance Russia, which invaded a decade ago and has recognized the independence of two breakaway Georgian regions.
"You have other areas of the market that are acting well, but not well not enough to counterbalance the effects of Apple today," SlateStone Wealth's Pavlik said.
Under Xi, much state funding has been allocated to policies aimed at restoring traditional Confucian values in Chinese society -- an attempt to counterbalance the impact of globalization.
The National Long-Term Rating of Sampath reflects its lower capitalisation and higher risk appetite relative to peers, which counterbalance its growing franchise and satisfactory asset quality.
Global overcapacity, a strong trade-weighted dollar, and still tepid external demand should act as a counterbalance to U.S. inflation, even if wage gains surprise more positively.
His administration is also reluctant to disturb the strategic relationship with the kingdom, seen as an important regional counterbalance to Iran, arch-rival of U.S. ally Israel.
When you already produce billions to tens of billions of dollars in revenue, high growth rates aren't easy to come by as new hits counterbalance maturing franchises.
It's an especially tough task facing Mr. Kaplan, who was brought on board for his conservative credentials and to counterbalance the left-leaning perceptions of the company.
"Many people in that region traditionally enjoy Lambrusco as a nice, light, sparkling wine that will counterbalance the richness of these foods when paired together," she says.
Her mother, Annabella, insisted on providing her with a world-class mathematics education, in part to counterbalance the influence of Byron and his relatively chaotic, creative life.
Mr. Cruz has criticized Mr. Trump's comments on NATO, saying that the United States needed to support the organization's fight against terrorism and to counterbalance Russia's influence.
The Connecticut Compromise at the time created the Senate: one chamber granting equal voice to every state to counterbalance the House, where more populous states spoke louder.
I wanted to see how five men could use their body weight in counterbalance to each other — to extend their movements into a longer, more expansive state.
He said other forces, including rising demand for housing among millennials and a limited supply of single-family homes, should help counterbalance the effects of the bills.
In December, John R. Bolton, President Trump's national security adviser, described the new strategy in Africa as a "great power" competition and counterbalance to China and Russia.
They are threatened by automation and constant offshoring, as well as a corporate structure that — without the union's counterbalance — would move money only upward into executive hands.
Though each has a slightly different goal, both design their programs to counterbalance the United States, and will therefore calibrate to keep pace with any American advances.
Crystals, it seems, appeal to those who seek calm in a chaotic world: a counterbalance to the anxiety induced by nonstop news and feelings of Instagram FOMO.
He rolls them so far that his torso tilts in counterbalance, his ankles sickle over, and his whole body bends into an S-curve of improbable depth.
Since a May 2140 coup, Thailand and China have drawn closer diplomatically and militarily as the ruling generals seek to counterbalance the country's cooling ties with Washington.
Last week, the Trump administration hinted at a coalition among Israel, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries that he said would counterbalance Iranian influence in the region.
In taking power from the National Assembly, the ruling removed what most consider to be the only remaining counterbalance to the president's growing power in the country.
Historically, this kind of extraordinary military advantage would lead other countries to counterbalance, to build up their own militaries to match the potential threat emanating from Washington.
Moody's said it expects U.S. federal budget deficits to widen over the medium term, but that the country's strong economy and strong institutions would counterbalance lower fiscal strength.
"Deeper ties with the Saudis is, in part, an attempt by Ankara to counterbalance Iran's growing clout in the region, especially in Syria and Iraq," Ms. Tol said.
The CFPB is structured exactly like the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), another banking regulator — one that the CFPB is designed to complement and counterbalance.
The Kurds also were a useful counterbalance in the north of Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, providing a political counterweight to the Sunni/Shiite-ascendancy struggle.
MICHAEL DEVIRIANFriday Harbour, Washington As a counterbalance to the "dark past" of Japan's somei-yoshino cherry trees you could have mentioned the sunlight sakura ("Flower power", April 6th).
Rouhani, they argue, may be a less desirable choice for Khamenei, which means he could act as a counterbalance and, therefore, be a better candidate for the West.
Lynch manages to ground the movie with a serious and poignant throughline and perfect counterbalance to Carol's brash heroics and her sometimes slapstick buddy-cop relationship with Fury.
A federal matching system for small-dollar political contributions would serve as a counterbalance to the sums that wealthy individuals and corporations pour into spending for political elections.
Its acquisitions in the U.S., Canada and Europe have provided access to hard currency revenue and EBITDA generation contributing to counterbalance the exposure between mature and emerging economies.
But the trusty mob, armed with mice and keyboards rather than pitchforks (so 19th century), can exercise their will and create a counterbalance, a check to the establishment.
RT was founded in 2005 as an arm of a state-owned news conglomerate, RIA Novosti, intended to serve as a counterbalance to coverage by Western media companies.
Foreign Affairs The soft-spoken Mr. Engel, 71, hopes to be a counterbalance to Mr. Trump's unconventional foreign policy, and he could get an opportunity sooner than anticipated.
The APRA Foundation Berlin Multi-Disciplinary Fellowship tries to give some of that back, by promoting multidisciplinarity as a counterbalance to socially imposed uniformity and unidimensional creative development.
The move also signals New Jersey positioning itself as a counterbalance to federal environmental officials under the Trump administration who have taken a more lenient approach toward polluters.
But the political geography of the Rust Belt gives Clinton an urban counterbalance to the support that Trump and the NRA hold among white men and rural residents.
Today, mountain biking can help to counterbalance two of the challenges of adolescent girlhood: increasing concerns about adhering to gender and beauty ideals, and decreasing feelings of confidence.
Consultation with long-term shareholders as part of the process would help, another point Shilon advocates, and might counterbalance pressure from activists and arbitrageurs with shorter attention spans.
As a counterbalance, imagine the least catastrophic interpretation, too: Your partner's on the way home with a tub of ice cream and will never mention the disagreement again.
Regardless of their motivation, winemakers who have adopted these scorned grapes have provided a necessary counterbalance to what had become a stultifying lack of diversity among California wines.
And it's the counterbalance, in some small part, to an album that takes everything extremely seriously, from career ambitions and lovers' quarrels to the placement of every hook.
Can it hold China's ambitions in check in the Pacific, counterbalance Iran and the terrorists of Islamic State in the middle east and deal with a nationalist Russian regime?
There are some newcomers here — including Rand and photographer Elle Pérez — but they seem to hold their own, with provocative works that counterbalance the older generation's sexually charged output.
A tightening of relations with India is something that was already accelerating under Barack Obama, whose administration saw the world's biggest democracy as a counterbalance to China's rising power.
But mostly he wanted to portray himself as a counterbalance to the influence of Sessions and others drug warriors in the Trump administration, including Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.
A fat person who exercises can be healthier than a slim person who does not, and exercise can counterbalance risks -- such as cardiovascular disease -- normally associated with being overweight.
Around a third of North Carolinians now come from beyond the South, many drawn by its tech and finance industries, a swelling counterbalance to the conservative suburbs and countryside.
Hugo Boss said it expected full-year operating income before special items roughly on the prior year level as online investments and product quality improvements counterbalance strict cost control.
The inclusion of an entertainer was meant, originally, as a counterbalance to the president, who traditionally delivered his own zinger-packed monologue, flaying his foes and roasting the roasters.
"Alternatively, if the election leads to a better result for pro-European parties such as the Liberal Democrats, that could provide an important counterbalance to aggressive negotiations," Buckley added.
I found that working in a more active job was stress relieving and a good counterbalance to the time I spent hunched over a laptop when I wasn't there.
"We've got to put positivity out there in the universe to counterbalance all these crazy nut jobs," Ms. Maines said, as Ms. Maguire draped a rainbow flag on stage.
As a counterbalance, the report suggests policies that disproportionately benefit young people such as raising minimum wages, keeping public universities affordable, cutting student debt, and creating more affordable housing.
But without context to counterbalance it, latching onto every vulnerable moment confirms the absolute worst media stereotype of pandering to athletes who volunteer even the smallest crumbs of authenticity.
Mr. Tillerson "acted as a counterbalance to the president's spontaneous reaction to things," Mr. Hayden said, a role that he suggested Mr. Pompeo would be less likely to play.
Even tolerated, Damascus-based dissidents — allowed to go as a counterbalance against the armed opposition — were given strict orders by Syrian officials on how to act at the talks.
Perhaps as a counterbalance, this season's slew of after-parties exhibited growing recognition from the fortunate tribe that their positions of influence could be used for a greater good.
And our Beijing bureau chief heard from analysts who say that Chinese leaders are suddenly jittery that Mr. Kim might try to counterbalance their own influence by embracing Washington.
According to patents filed by the company, a counterbalance spinning opposite the rocket gets released at the same time, preventing the tether from becoming unbalanced and vibrating into oblivion.
Those moves surprised American officials, who have reported no change in the security situation in Lebanon and who continue to support the Lebanese Army as a counterbalance to Hezbollah.
The crisis has been invoked to discredit the United States' interventions and created the regional fault lines we're still contending with today -- including using the Saudis to counterbalance Iran.
He shifted his attention to promoting U.S. supplies of coal, oil and natural gas to foreign governments, positioning U.S. energy supplies as a counterbalance to Russian and OPEC exports.
So instead of treating AI as a monolithic entity, we foresee AI software designed by multiple different parties, where one AI can be utilized to check and counterbalance others.
"Ultimately we want to provide a counterbalance to the notion that young people who care about the environment are hotheaded or unwilling to work within the existing systems," O'Brien said.
Mike Pence of Indiana, the reliably conservative and mild-mannered counterbalance to the brash billionaire, top Republican officials are pressing Trump to tap Priebus for the top White House post.
But without the deal, Lee and others have warned that US economic influence in the region is at risk of eroding and -- without a counterbalance -- China's power will only increase.
That demands a city with the attractions and capacity to counterbalance London; one capable of attracting government departments and their staff, the media, think-tanks, international investors and some businesses.
Timehop caught on with millions of users, for whom it essentially served as a kind of counterbalance to the rise of Snapchat and its concept of ever-disappearing, ephemeral content.
Like a carbon offset program, it offered delegates a way to counterbalance their water consumption by purchasing credits to be invested in water efficiency initiatives and expanded clean water access.
On Wednesday night, it served more than 500 people and raised more than $5,600 for the American Immigration Council to counterbalance the president and his supporters' racist and xenophobic rhetoric.
For example, Kynikos Associates' portfolio is 83 percent ETFs, according to FactSet data, which can counterbalance the various short positions that the firm, led by James Chanos, is known for.
Passage of a sweeping 12-nation Pacific Rim trade agreement would cement U.S. influence in the region while providing a counterbalance for China's growing economic power, a new report says.
Trump also took a much harsher line than his predecessors on Pakistan and made a more explicit threat to draw India more heavily into Afghanistan to counterbalance malign Pakistani influence.
Oil held near its highest in nearly three years on Wednesday, supported by political tension in the Middle East, although evidence of rising U.S. crude supply acted as a counterbalance.
And how exactly is Trump going to enlist Arab Gulf nations against ISIS or to counterbalance Iran, having stated that their Muslim citizens should be banned from entering the U.S.?
Almost overnight Wall Street realized that congressional stalemate would work as a counterbalance to the president-elect's more extreme proposals and his ultimate effect on corporate profits would be positive.
I could just as easily have Dak Prescott here, though I suppose I'm trying to counterbalance the coming onslaught of takes demanding that Tony Romo return to the Cowboys' lineup.
He has withdrawn the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the massive trade pact initiated by President Barack Obama to act as a counterbalance in Asia to China's economic pull.
Like an exoskeleton suit that enhances the capabilities of the wearer's muscles, the tail works like a counterbalance so that less force is required to lift something off the ground.
And while the $100 billion floating toward hospitals would help counterbalance coronavirus-related costs in the near-term — more funding will be necessary to offset massive costs the long run.
Hobbies — creative passions pursued for their own sake — can be a way to counterbalance a culture that demands overwork and overachievement, or an antidote to technology and news-driven anxieties.
On one hand, you want to ensure that [the] administration is surrounded by strong voices that represent the innovation economy and digital economy so there's a counterbalance to some views.
Recently, the leaders of both France and Germany announced their determination to become largely independent from the US on security matters and even to "counterbalance" the US in global geopolitics.
Across the country, Mr. Trump's supporters rallied, aiming to defend a president they say has been treated unfairly by the press and his critics and to counterbalance anti-Trump protests.
"The purpose of the Op. Ed. page is neither to reinforce nor to counterbalance The Times's own editorial position," the introduction to the newly created opinion pages stated in 1970.
That presents a sizeable competitive threat to other retailers, so many of them are looking for alternatives that they can use and help develop as a counterbalance or straight-out alternative.
Critics have said that at worst, Denholm will be no better than a rubber stamp for Musk's decision; at best, Denholm can serve as a counterbalance to Musk's most-impulsive ways.
The other 11 district presidents vote every two or three years under a century-old rotation meant to emphasize New York's unique role as a counterbalance to the Washington-based board.
At the time Sears and Kmart merged, Sears was looking for more products to sell in its stores to counterbalance the infrequency with which people bought its hallmark appliances like dishwashers.
Mr. Macron is pressing for more spending on European defense, especially on French armaments, as a way for Europe to counterbalance a long-term trend of American retreat from multilateral obligations.
Besides reaching Trump, the ads are meant to help counterbalance the networks' tendencies to treat climate change as a two-sided issue, giving equal airtime to those who deny its existence.
The Center for American Progress and similar think tanks, founded explicitly to counterbalance Heritage and the American Enterprise Institute on the right, have emerged as important sources of policy and leadership.
Hopefully they share a feeling of going to shows that I love experiencing, many of them drift towards punk gone ambient, or electronic, the beautiful and noisy elements counterbalance each other.
A day after his inauguration on May 14th, France's president named as prime minister Edouard Philippe, the centre-right mayor of Le Havre, to counterbalance his own roots on the left.
Drivers for an upgrade are the quantum of a potential capital injection and its sensible deployment alongside the sustainability of a sufficient capital buffer to counterbalance weaknesses in NDB's credit profile.
It's an alliance of 235 countries, mostly from Europe, plus Canada and the U.S. It was formed in 2100 as a way to counterbalance the military might of the Soviet Union.
It is not the profit-motive that has enabled higher-ed obesity, but subsidies that have destroyed the counterbalance: the desire of consumers to get the most bang for the buck.
In recent years, his stock has risen even higher as China's ruling Communist Party has sought to promote traditional Chinese values as a counterbalance to the influence of Western liberal ideas.
Macau-based military expert Antony Wong Dong said that in addition to Taiwan, the J-20 fighter could also be used to counterbalance military activities by the United States and Japan.
It's Bried's hope that Kazoo's comics, science experiments, recipes, art projects, interviews, and activities will counterbalance the princesses, dolls, pop stars, and beauty tips that dominate reading material for young girls.
"The way the landscape has changed these days, with consolidation, this is the counterbalance one would need to exist and compete with the formidable Bowery Presents-AEG alliance," Mr. Swier said.
They believe Sanders should continue to act as a liberal counterbalance for Biden, keeping him sharp heading into the general election and giving him new opportunities to win over Sanders's supporters.
We can help Democrats take over Congress in November, as they will serve on behalf of the American people as a strong counterbalance to this out-of-control, discombobulated White House.
The Fed's easing was a positive backdrop for equities for much of the year and acted at times as a counterbalance to concerns about the trade war and slowing global growth.
Mazur asked Hassett what elements could be added to the plan to counterbalance all the changes that tend to benefit the wealthy — nixing the estate and alternative minimum taxes, for example.
The Soviet Union maintained a substantial military presence there during the Cold War, propping up an array of anti-Western regimes to counterbalance American partners and extend its geopolitical sphere of influence.
"This is a really opportunistic way for us to counterbalance and offer something that's different than our exchange trading but offers value to clients in a way that's really safe," Sandler said.
Strong fiscal and external balance sheets counterbalance the country's high commodity dependence, low government revenue base, financial dollarization and structural constraints in terms of income per capita, social indicators and institutional quality.
Democratic strategists see O'Malley Dillon as an organized and evenhanded counterbalance to O'Rourke, who is known for his spontaneity and rejection of traditional campaign tactics, like the use of consultants and pollsters.
"We have the tendency to rush and solution something without fully understanding it — they provide counterbalance where it's necessary but also push us to be more aggressive in some ways," he said.
Though currents which well up from that reservoir return a similar amount of carbon to the shallows, this cycle still plays an important role as a counterbalance to man-made global warming.
Party-line union leaders and activists who have been a counterbalance against them don't always agree on what the new protest energy means or what they should do with their newfound power.
With his late-night dinners and friendships around the globe, Kerry offers a useful counterbalance to a President who is short on personal relationships with world leaders and often perceived as detached.
The outsized circumstances end up making it funnier, too — the film has a kind of locked-jaw sardonic sense of humor that is the perfect counterbalance to its moody camerawork and soundtrack.
"If they've been harmful or mean to children in the family, they can point to how much they've helped this particular sibling to counterbalance any sort of judgment of them," said Thomas.
That's why it's so important President Trump get to work installing pro-workers, pro-jobs, and pro-growth board members at the NLRB to counterbalance the strong union influence we have today.
To counterbalance the oversized fit of her get-up, she piled on delicate gold jewelry, carried a miniature Hermès box bag, and wore cat-eye sunglasses and barely-there heels by Céline.
In circumstances where extreme pricing power exists, such as the launch of new therapies protected with market exclusivity, binding arbitration provides a much needed counterbalance to drug manufacturer's extreme price setting power.
The Dream Act is the latest in a wave of state-level protections for immigrants as blue state legislatures increasingly seek to act as a counterbalance to President Trump's federal immigration policies.
Russia's intervention in September 2015 swung the fighting decisively in Mr. Assad's favor, in part because the United States has not been willing to counterbalance Moscow's military role in the civil war.
Trump pushed back against calls to stop weapons sales to the Saudis and UAE despite those concerns, calling the two countries important strategic partners and counterbalance to long-time U.S. enemy Iran.
Under Prince Mohammed, Saudi Arabia is going through a period of muscular nationalism and is trying to assert its weight as a Sunni regional power, particularly in trying to counterbalance Shiite Iran.
I wanted to create a space where we could discuss ways in which we might join forces to counterbalance the fear and to call for decency, compassion and ethics in our government.
What we're not seeing yet is the counterbalance of human decency and moral certitude that's also important to what could now, in the parlance of our times, be called the "Fargo" brand.
But the fact it was held at all was deeply embarrassing to Venezuela, which just a decade ago aspired to become a counterbalance to United States power and policy in the region.
Two main factors have shaken Australia: China's assertive behavior in the South China Sea, and President Trump's abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade deal meant to counterbalance China's economic might.
Rand Paul was an imperfect counterbalance to this trend, if only because neither he nor his father, Ron, before him had the commanding personal presence to win, and lead from, the White House.
It makes him a natural counterbalance to President Trump, who is widely assumed to run the same immigration-panic-centric playbook in 2020 that he did (successfully) in 2016 and (unsuccessfully) in 2018.
But even though Fiji Water has made attempts to counterbalance its own ecological impact, its mere existence and operation are part of an industry with serious ramifications for the environment and the economy.
Iraq's Sunni politicians have been largely quiet about the presidential visit, reflecting the ties they have cultivated with the U.S. to counterbalance the might of the country's Iran-backed and predominantly-Shiite militias.
Jerry Brown on Thursday signed a bill into law placing statewide limits on local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities creating a potent counterbalance to the Trump administration's push against undocumented immigrants.
It was very important that the film grapples with the thing that it's talking about, rather than elevating our own kind of uniqueness as humans, as a certain kind of counterbalance to it.
A Southern gentleman who could counterbalance Trump's bombast, he was deferential to the president and never humiliated the White House with a scandal over ordering furniture that costs more than a steelworker's salary.
Fortunately, Moment has a solution in the form of some official counterweights that are made out of stainless steel and designed to perfectly counterbalance the extra weight of Moment's lenses on the Osmo.
"Employing the threat of things like tariffs is actually a pretty useful counterbalance to try to keep some jobs here when so much of the focus has been on shareholder value," said Paul.
However, when they're not using it, the car is out there making (or saving, depending how you look at it) money that can counterbalance the costs of ownership like fuel, insurance and maintenance.
For years the Pentagon has pursued India as part of an effort to counterbalance growing Chinese strength, but only in recent months have Indian military officials begun to show eagerness for co-operation.
He cites its multibillion-dollar purchases of U.S. military equipment and investments in U.S. firms, as well as its role as an important regional counterbalance to Iran, arch-rival of U.S. ally Israel.
And the administration has repeatedly shot down the possibility of ending U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia, arguing that it's a top ally in the Middle East and an important counterbalance to Iran.
Research shows that in relationships, you need five positive interactions to counterbalance every negative one because our brains are hardwired to seek threats, and we perseverate on the bad instead of the good.
So I would hear stories from them about this place that they didn't even know anything about, and those stories were a counterbalance to the awful things that we did hear about them.
But together they suggest that even as Hawaii was subject to the divisive forces roiling the world, a different set of local customs coursing beneath the surface served as a type of counterbalance.
And it is evident as Vice President Mike Pence is in Asia this week to talk to East Asian and Southeast Asian leaders to shore up support for American efforts to counterbalance China.
Thailand's military has sought to counterbalance traditionally close ties with the United States by engaging more with China since the May 2014 coup that the United States and other Western countries objected to.
Not only is India an important growth market for U.S. corporations, but it serves as a strategic political ally for Washington in the region, often seen as an effective way to counterbalance China.
The Trump administration needs to reassert Asian, and global, dependence on value-added American technology and services to counterbalance China's focus on infrastructure and manufacturing, which provides reliable yet low rates of return.
An interesting counterbalance to the wave of YA romances about creepy, mysterious, controlling boys that Aja correctly pegs to Twilight's popularity is that Twilight also fundamentally changed the way we talked about those romances.
I don't know what it is about NYC, but every time I visit I end up eating way too much pizza, so I try to counterbalance it with greens as much as I can.
If so, that could force Trump and Tillerson to decide whether the United States should remain engaged - and attempt to counterbalance the powerful influence of neighboring Shi'ite-led Iran – or play a diminished role.
The decision to loop in James is presumably an effort to counterbalance Burns, but the man's bipartisan reputation and observable failure to be as far left as James is right undermines that particular argument.
Most Christmas tree stands are not very attractive, so a Christmas tree skirt serves two purposes: It covers up the stand, and it provides a horizontal counterbalance to the upright shape of the tree.
In an attempt to counterbalance that prospect, the Russian Ministry for the Development of the Far East is considering resettling in the region some two million migrants from neighboring Central Asian countries by 2030.
Religious leaders and religious political actors are acutely aware of their value in regional politics; they understand that local governments and global coalitions are seeking them out to counterbalance the weight of violent extremism.
The growing proportion of residential sales will counterbalance volatility in industrial land sales, but Modernland's track record in developing an integrated, large-scale residential project is still limited relative to the other rated developers.
One of the school's directors says that it's vital for the students' mental health that they have spaces that can counterbalance the terror of war, where they can laugh rather than cower in fear.
All of them can bias me simultaneous, and the questions, of course, are which dominate and how am I able to counterbalance them through my process of information gathering and adjudication of that information.
The hope is that with more politician scientists speaking sense on issues such as climate change, they will serve as a counterbalance to the anti-science policies that have arisen mainly on the right.
A suddenly urgent question is who will be able to counterbalance forces tearing at Europe's unity in the eventual absence of Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who said she would retire after her term.
The group, Patients for Affordable Drugs NOW, which was founded this year, says it will spend six figures on the race and is seeking to help counterbalance pharmaceutical companies' spending in November's midterm elections.
Perhaps the handful of kids who survived the disaster — and whose civil rights were so egregiously trampled on by their parents' religious choices — will someday tell their stories to counterbalance this highly varnished tale.
For decades, Egypt has been propped up by foreign aid; since the coup, Gulf countries, which rely on Sunni Egypt to help counterbalance Iran and the Shiites, have provided more than thirty billion dollars.
In promoting videos recorded on the very sort of body-worn cameras that have documented episodes of police misconduct, law enforcement officials say they are trying to use the positive images as a counterbalance.
Mellman founded his group in January to shore up support in the party for the US-Israel relationship and to counterbalance what he sees as a rise in anti-Israel views among some Democrats.
On Saturday, the Rays and others tracking the slow thaw of relations between Cuba and the U.S. were served a visceral reminder: One baseball game does little to counterbalance decades of complex international conflict.
The MIT research, which has not yet been peer reviewed, found that learning about automation also didn't make people more likely to support retraining programs that experts say are essential to counterbalance the disruption.
I was partly trying to counterbalance Alan's tendency to imagine a dark fiscal future in which we were always broke and overextended, even when the facts and figures of our joint assets said otherwise.
But today, Amazon made a move to counterbalance some of that criticism: it launched a new portal it's calling Storefronts to celebrate mom-and-pop shops and other smaller merchants that sell through the platform.
Even though I know a lot about food, I cannot cook to save my life, so my meals at home are pretty basic and, for the most part, healthy to counterbalance all my dinners out.
"There was a hope that if he had a more dovish tone that that might be a counterbalance to the trade headwinds out there," said Michael O'Rourke, chief market strategist at JonesTrading in Greenwich, Connecticut.
This turns the iPad head into a kind of balancing pendulum, creating a counterbalance that keeps the whole thing from tipping over when one large wheel rolls over an obstacle while the other stays flat.
Another side: Kiera O'Brien, who is set to graduate from Harvard University next year, is part of a student-led bipartisan group seeking to provide what she described as a "counterbalance" to the louder efforts.
He also took the opportunity to advocate for millions of Romanian emigrants, to hearten the country's small Catholic population and to again position himself as a counterbalance to the tip toward nationalism around the world.
A divided Congress, however, is perceived as negative for the dollar, analysts said, because it is unlikely that any new fiscal stimulus could be launched to counterbalance forecasts of slowing U.S. economic growth next year.
He played slick defense at his demanding shortstop position, improved his plate discipline and smashed at least 20093 home runs each year, a crucial left-handed counterbalance in a Yankees' lineup heavy on right-handers.
A grouping of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan, it has been compared to an eastern NATO, and is designed in part to counterbalance western influence in Asia and the Middle East.
Since the coup, the military government has sought to counterbalance U.S. ties by developing relations with China and Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan met his Chinese counterpart, Chang Wanquan, during a visit to Beijing last week.
"If Congress is to do its job, and counterbalance the executive, it has to know what it's talking about," Barry Lynn, executive director of the Open Markets Institute, said last year of the lawmakers' efforts.
It was designed to be kind of a counterbalance to the Heritage Foundation, which is the big conservative think tank, still is, and just moved over there without any kind of portfolio or job description.
For Republicans involved with creating a counterbalance to ActBlue, they conceded that Adelson is one of many donors who is concerned about the fundraising issues facing the party as they go into a pivotal election season.
In this regard -- and perhaps despite some of Trump's broad campaign criticism of US generals involved in drawing up plans against ISIS -- generals have the authority and legitimacy to serve as a counterbalance to imprudent action.
A second, and bigger, cause of the ageing of societies is that people everywhere are having far fewer children, so the younger age groups are much too small to counterbalance the growing number of older people.
But with El Niño gone and its climactic counterbalance, La Niña, already here, a vast region of the equatorial Pacific that's been releasing extra heat into our atmosphere is now expected to draw heat back down.
Kasich and Obama could be facing an uphill battle: Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton oppose the 12-nation Pacific Rim deal, which Obama has pitched as a way to counterbalance China's rise in the region.
What it says a lot more about is the key dynamic at the core of every set Max D and Ari Goldman have ever played together, this counterbalance between intricate, seamless DJing and shameless, blatant fun.
"It's fair to say the dollar has been supported but it remains quite moderate," he said, citing the pullback in U.S. treasury yields overnight as a counterbalance to the lure of seeking safty in the greenback.
"We have to counterbalance the deficiencies and disparity that have made Rome unlivable for entire sectors of the population," Ms. De Leo said, warning of a potential chain reaction that could have even more widespread decline.
But now that we do have this data, and I hope that this is why Unicode released it, we can add it as a useful counterbalance to search data, when people are proposing more new emoji.
The efforts made by the enemy in this quarter have cost him heavy losses in men and have diminished his prestige, while his sacrifices have been made without his having secured any gain to counterbalance them.
On the other, we risk treating FARA as a dirty word, which will only scare away friendly foreign governments — so, Russian information warfare gets a free pass and we constrain our allies' attempts to counterbalance it.
If the U.S. immigration detention system was constructed out of fear, then our only hope for ending this system is to counterbalance this fear with the truth: that our immigration detention system has failed everyone involved.
Some say that parallel is flawed because of the active involvement of Russia and Iran in this war, suggesting that those countries might escalate their activity in support of Syrian forces to counterbalance any American strikes.
"(The government thinks) more needs to be squeezed from the private sector so that the state has the firepower to accelerate spending on infrastructure and investments ... to counterbalance the impact of the trade war," Zhang said.
Their goal, although they're not officially pitching it as such, is to send a message about women's rights that will provide a counterbalance to the political and personal values espoused by incoming President Donald J. Trump.
After including so many details that seem to unduly romanticize Bundy's relationship, capture, escape, and indictment, the film does little to provide emotional counterbalance to remind us: This man raped, tortured, and murdered dozens of women.
Tying Marvel's stable of pulp-fiction heroes to a real place — New York — served a counterbalance to the sometimes gravity-challenged action and the improbability of the stories, and that was just what Mr. Lee wanted.
Analysts are dubious, however, saying he is more likely looking for ways to lure disaffected pro-Brexit Labour voters and provide a counterbalance to his history in the anti-immigration, largely right-wing 2016 Leave campaign.
Others, like the sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) prefer to chase through dense woodlands using short powerful wings to weave past obstacles, their long tails a counterbalance for short, sharp turns and high-speed, bloody ambushes.
That wariness and his advocacy of free trade put him at odds with Trump but also make him a prudent counterbalance, if Trump can find the modesty and confidence to size up the situation that way.
"I think people have unrealistic expectations that Romney can serve as this main counterbalance to the president," said Kevin Madden, who was a senior adviser on Romney's 2012 presidential campaign and press secretary four years before.
Siemens: E.U. antitrust authorities blocked the German company's plans to merge its train unit with Alstom of France, killing a deal that was pitched as a counterbalance to competition from China's entry into the European market.
The actions caught the attention of White House aide Chuck Colson, who saw the protests as "an inviting opportunity to counterbalance the growing antiwar movement," as historian Edmund Wehrle writes, and encouraged the protests to continue.
In the bigger picture, he's spoken of his ambition for The Movement to one day act as a right-wing counterbalance to philanthropist George Soros' Open Society Foundations, which have provided billions to liberal causes in Europe.
But the good news couldn't counterbalance deepening concerns over China's economy and plunging oil prices, and another day of losses — about 1 percent in all three major indexes — added up to Wall Street's worst week since 2011.
Right-wing Tories such as Liam Fox, the secretary for international trade, want to use America as a counterbalance to Euro-socialism and to use a trade deal with America as a building block for the "Anglosphere".
"It is a hope that she is going to be a counterbalance to the volatility of the CEO, someone who can bring some stable leadership to the board — that would be the best possible outcome," Wilson said.
In this fast-growing country of 94 million people, about one-third of them on Facebook, America is at once the counterbalance to the age-old enemy, China, and an emblem of the prosperity young people seek.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it would "open its door wider" to German businesses, giving a warm reception to visiting Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has wooed Beijing to counterbalance trade threats from U.S. President Donald Trump.
Both women presented basic riffs on the work that Jean Stapleton and Isabel Sanford offered on the original shows, while maintaining just enough of their own star personas to counterbalance what would otherwise be a straightforward impersonation.
With the momentum of "Boyz N the Hood" behind him, John made the decision to make a powerful counterbalance to his experience of being one of the only black kids in high school, college and film school.
The first such "counterbalance" at major exploration and production companies — which find and extract oil then sell it to refiners — is often a pullback in capital spending as companies rein in rigs to keep costs under control.
He has sought to counterbalance the N.R.A. through his work with national groups like Everytown for Gun Safety, and he spent more than $100 million to elect candidates with similar gun safety positions in the 2018 midterms.
In an offense designed by Arthur Smith, Tannehill's efficiency and wide receiver A.J. Brown's explosiveness served as a perfect counterbalance to Derrick Henry, who led the N.F.L. in rushing while setting career highs in virtually every category.
Leading proponents premise the notion on the belief that after Congress expands the number of justices, a new Democratic president would be able to appoint justices to counterbalance today's court, which has a 103-210 conservative majority.
But most of the industry's focus will fall on a complicated offsetting system, in which airlines buy credits from climate change projects, like renewable energy programs often in the developing world, to counterbalance their own carbon emissions.
The active rear wing adds angle while the active front flaps take it out to counterbalance the effect of the car's weight shifting forward onto the front axle, letting you drive deeper and deeper into each corner.
The other thing is, I like having somebody on the team who's super smart and just relentlessly focused on the financial outcome to counterbalance the focus on how to come up with some ridiculous horse-involved scheme.
Anakin, after all, is supposed to bring balance to the Force — which effectively means that the prophecy of him doing so very well might imply that the rise of the Sith was necessary to counterbalance the Jedi.
Many U.S. mayors and governors are already implementing climate-friendly policies to counterbalance the Trump administration's rejection of Obama-era initiatives to curb carbon emissions - which Trump has said would cost trillions of dollars with little tangible benefit.
He also thinks Western countries, as a counterbalance to Huawei and other Chinese tech firms, should consider whether domestic firms that provide digital infrastructure should be designated as strategically important, as arms-makers and steel firms often are.
"Additional drag is caused by air travelling around the spare engine during flight and, to counterbalance this, our pilots are trained to use the flight controls to ensure the aircraft flies straight, level and safely," the airline said.
True, under pressure from her own left wing, she has backtracked on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a set of trade deals that supports American interests by creating a counterbalance to China and American values by protecting workers' rights.
The administration's rejection of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, for instance, allows Beijing to argue to US allies in Asia that Washington's promise to remain engaged in the region as a counterbalance to China's rise is empty.
Noisey: It's always interesting to speak with a heavy metal musician who is involved in academia, because even as some strains of metal affect an anti-intellectual stance, there's a whole burgeoning "metal academia" movement to counterbalance it.
While they reportedly contribute to a surge in urban traffic, the nation's two largest ride-sharing companies — Uber and Lyft — say cuts in emissions or carbon credit offsets may counterbalance the added pollution for which they are responsible.
In that sense the coat offers fuzzy counterbalance to another well-publicized MaxMara design, the emphatic red so-called power coat that Nancy Pelosi, now the speaker of the House, wore to a December meeting with President Trump.
Talking with me over several months, they explained, sometimes overtly, sometimes in more roundabout ways, that the instability they had invited into their lives worked as a counterbalance that allowed Ann to feel more secure within the marriage.
The documentary, which looks at the Palestine-Israeli conflict through the eyes of 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi and another young female activist, lacked "counterbalance", the Info-communications Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) said on its website.
Many lower and upper-level employees had hoped that a woman would be chosen for the CEO position to provide a counterbalance to the toxic, male-dominated culture that Kalanick and his fellow executives have built over the years.
Granted, Wayne's hook, which revolves around a line about a girl being on her period, is not his finest work, but he makes both chainz and choppers sound cool as fuck, and he provides a nice counterbalance for Tauheed.
I write about a lot of socially conscious, anti-capitalist, generally leftist bands on here, because they're an important counterbalance to metal's more reactionary elements ( and yes, I am absolutely pushing my own radical leftist agenda—deal with it).
McCain, who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has often tried to position himself as a counterbalance to Trump's White House on matters of U.S. foreign policy, an area where the two men have widely divergent worldviews.
On Thursday, the independent Joint Committee on Taxation (JTC) announced that the Senate tax bill will not generate enough growth to counterbalance the $2000 trillion worth of tax cuts it includes — adding $1 trillion to deficit over 10 years.
And if you've ever seen that movie, with its carnival of physical beauty—into which poor, plain Shelley Winters has been placed as counterbalance—you'll know that eight-point type is a fair and accurate representation of the situation.
Other ideas that have been floated, Smith told Motherboard, include that the smaller arms helped to counterbalance the weight of its enormous head, or that the arms simply didn't catch up with the the evolution of its large skull.
In recent years, to counterbalance the Ambedkar celebrations, the upper castes, especially the Rajputs, began celebrating Rana Pratap, a medieval Hindu Rajput king, who fought several battles against the Mughal Empire, as an ideal Rajput and Hindu nationalistic icon.
Barclays Chief Executive Jes Staley has repeatedly rebuffed that notion, saying the investment bank is an important part of Barclays' strategy that provides a counterbalance as trading revenues rise in turbulent times that hurt other parts of the business.
Other topics I'm exploring are companies that seek profits from directly encouraging consumers to move away from fossil fuels, and reality checking the effectiveness of offsets and credits, which are arcane, intangible ways companies and individuals can counterbalance emissions.
Huge credit is due to the actors: Hathaway's naked emotion about the destruction she's caused in Korea is the only counterbalance for the movie's seeming indifference otherwise, and by the end, she makes her kinda-repulsive character sympathetic and even cathartic.
I can't predict what will take off this year, but my read is that the internet is ready for something boldly new — something both shockingly different and possessing an ethereal calm, a necessary counterbalance to the ambient psychic distress of 2017.
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While the Bank of Canada will be encouraged by the long-awaited improvement in investment, the protectionist tone out of the United States will act as a counterbalance, said Paul Ferley, the assistant chief economist at Royal Bank of Canada.
Maybe the company is heartfelt and serious about improving the quality and accuracy of the information we see online, and putting a news feed on its homepage is a powerful counterbalance to the trough of slop we're getting from other sources.
I asked him to find an antidote in the room that could counterbalance that effect, and he was very quick to find a wide open landscape that extended beyond the borders of the frame, and he found comfort in that.
Tesla's newly appointed chairwoman Robyn Denholm will bring business expertise to the helm of the company's board and serve as a crucial counterbalance to CEO Elon Musk, even if she isn't the most exciting pick, analysts and experts told CNBC Thursday.
As F-15s from the Japanese Air Self-Defense Forces (JASDF) fly to confront the Chinese planes, the risk of war is highlighted, as is the urgent need for a counterbalance to China's increasingly bold territorial ambitions in the region.
Late on Tuesday, Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra announced the Netherlands had taken a 12.7 percent stake for 680 million euros ($774 million) and aimed to increase that to about 14 percent, to counterbalance the French government's stake in the group.
ISS said that Hyundai Mobis' nominees "may not be enough to counterbalance the founding family's substantial influence over the company, especially considering the magnitude of the company's underperformance," referring to its "missteps" in corporate strategy, operational execution and capital allocation.
To counterbalance all of these dramatic increases in memory and graphical processing, the console comes with a predictable disadvantage: it will go on the market for $499, whereas the previous model — the Xbox One S — now costs a mere $279.
Automakers are coming here to play, because it's one of the three most important car shows in the US — the others being Detroit and LA — and because it's a great counterbalance to the hypercar excess of Geneva a few weeks prior.
In Brussels, meanwhile, the EU, Norway and Switzerland sought Asian support for free trade, the Iran nuclear deal and fighting global warming at a regional summit that included China, Japan and Russia as a counterbalance to a more protectionist United States.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union sought Asian support for free trade, the Iran nuclear deal and fighting global warming at a regional summit on Thursday that included China, Japan and Russia as a counterbalance to a more protectionist United States.
But first, there is Poland: a NATO member near Russia that meets its defense spending goals, hosts close to 1,000 U.S. troops and is eager to buy liquefied natural gas from U.S. companies to counterbalance Russian gas supplies in the region.
In a speech at the Houston event, Froman emphasized the need for TPP as a counterbalance to China's growing economic and political influence in Asia, citing its own regional trade deal and more assertive stance in the South China Sea.
Ultimately, this is a far better deep cut single than you might assume: The three performers counterbalance each other well, it's still a Future hook during one of Future's best eras, and Wayne goes off, which bodes well for the future.
From Kim's perspective, wouldn't it be nice to have a non-regional benefactor to counterbalance his troublesome neighbor to the north who just uses him as a pawn in the great power competition and keeps North Korea on life support?
"I started writing snidbits of this play in law school," Ms. Nagle said, and in that casual, playful little word "snidbits" is a counterbalance to her cerebral intensity, the ability she has to cite case law and obscure dates mid-conversation.
I discovered Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series in my teens and found them to be inspiring as well as an excellent counterbalance to my headier teen reading: "Flowers in the Attic," by V. C. Andrews, and "Lace," by Shirley Conran.
It seems as if change is moving in the right direction, and with the blessing of Saudi Arabia there is potentially growing momentum toward an Islamic reformation that could serve as a counterbalance to the extremist clerics who lead Iran.
Airbnb has been tapped to provide extra lodging in a special partnership with the Olympics In November, Airbnb scored a nine-year sponsorship deal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to help counterbalance the costs of hosting the massive event.
Most universities in other countries distribute power among the professors; American universities have established a counterbalance to the power of the faculty in the person of a president, which allows some of them to act more like entrepreneurial firms than lethargic academic bodies.
In his White House memoir, Team of Vipers, out now, ex-staffer Cliff Sims reveals insider details about Melania and her relationship with the president — some of which counterbalance reports of marital strife that have plagued the couple since the 2016 presidential campaign.
Dalio had already established a unique, intense culture of "radical transparency" at Bridgewater that he likes to say is akin to being part of an " intellectual Navy SEALs," and he believed that Transcendental Meditation, or TM, would work as an effective counterbalance.
There was a time in our history when limiting the possession of guns meant limiting our liberty — our ability to counterbalance a powerful central government that could fall into tyrannical hands; our ability to fend for ourselves; our ability to protect our families.
As long ago as the 1950s its rulers had reached out to China in a bid to counterbalance India, which controlled nearly all access to the landlocked kingdom—as it was then—and was pressing the royal family to allow some democracy.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said that Mr. Pruitt's success in achieving items on the president's agenda — including rolling back a large number of environmental regulations — may weigh heavily as a counterbalance to allegations that he misused taxpayer dollars.
The Outlook on DFCC's National Long-Term Rating may be revised to Stable if the bank can sustain capital buffers to sufficiently cushion its weaker asset quality amid higher operating environment-related risks and counterbalance its developing franchise relative to more established peers.
Economic considerations notwithstanding, a growing number of Asia-Pacific countries are trying to find ways to counterbalance China's growing power, and both Beijing and Washington will be keeping an eye on Taipei to discern its plans should the DPP win this weekend.
"At a time when the Trump administration is trying to render LGBTQ people invisible, representing LGBTQ people in all of our diversity in scripted TV programs is an essential counterbalance that gives LGBTQ people stories to relate to," Ellis said in a statement.
ALSO-RAN In addition to keeping a lid on costs, Schwan has pegged Tecentriq as a pivotal piece in plans to counterbalance $21 billion in revenue at risk with patent expirations on the Basel-based drugmaker's three top sellers, Rituxan, Herceptin and Avastin.
The rebates won't ever fully counterbalance the price increases that are sure to come when businesses and energy suppliers are forced to pay millions of dollars in taxes, especially since governments often keep some, or even all, of the revenues for themselves.
Graham's comments are the latest sign that the Senate GOP will be a counterbalance of sorts to House Democrats, who plan to end the House Republican probe into the FBI and launch a flurry of new investigations in their new majority next year.
Clinton believes in a "mixed economy" in which government serves as an essential supplement to and regulator of markets, using its strong "thumb" (as the political economist Charles Lindblom once described it) to assist and counterbalance the nimble "fingers" of the market.
It also calls for the US to "develop enduring coalitions to consolidate gains we have made in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere, to support the lasting defeat of terrorists as we sever their sources of strength and counterbalance Iran," the document reads.
That decision established a woman's right to choose to have an abortion, but if more states, or even the federal government, pass laws that treat fetuses like people, advocates could build a case that a fetus' rights counterbalance the rights of a woman.
Iraq, lacking a functioning government, now finds itself trapped in a fray over which it has little control, compelled by public indignation to denounce the American airstrikes on its territory but loath to lose the American counterbalance to Iran and its proxies.
The 30 dense chapters that comprise the TPP are interlaced with American values and principles of trade that would act as a powerful counterbalance to others who have visions for global trade in today's digital economy that are vastly different from our own.
"We started to ask ourselves, is there something else that was also uniquely cinematic that could be a kind of antidote to violence or that could be an expression that could similarly shock or to awaken that would be a counterbalance?" she said.
BuzzFeed News reports that Kushner —  who owned the Observer since 2006 — engaged in talks with top Clinton operative David Brock, who at the time was exploring a media venture meant to serve as a counterbalance on the left to right-wing Breitbart News.
The era of globalization was born in the aftermath of World War II, when the United States made the decision that open trade and security guarantees with Japan and NATO would be the only way to avoid another war and counterbalance Soviet expansion.
Although Momoa's version of Aquaman as a gruff, hard-drinking superhero bro can be grating (particularly in a solo movie, where he doesn't have the counterbalance of a Wonder Woman or a Flash), I found myself warming to him as the story went on.
I hate to rag on the thing too much, as it's the culmination of a 17-year dream for host Carlo, but some of those reviews can be Gordon Ramsay levels of mean without the "there's some semblance of a good person under there" counterbalance.
"I couldn't stay hitched with a losing team ... I had to search for a team that would counterbalance the experience of losing every single year, so -- I hate to say this, and I know you'll boo me -- I became a Yankees fan," she had said.
"In the meantime, countries in Asia that have not wanted a US-China clash but have wanted substantial American presence to counterbalance the growing clout of China ... are going to calculate that they can't count on the US in the way they did before."
"Under the resource supercycle, our resource and energy assets have grown significantly, but our non-resource businesses have not grown as fast to counterbalance," Mitsui President Tatsuo Yasunaga told a news conference, when asked for a reason for the company's first annual consolidated net loss.
"If the current softness in crude prices proves to be transient and as the output gap continues to close, inflation excluding food and fuel may likely trend upwards and counterbalance the benefit of the expected easing of food inflation," the RBI said in a statement.
But Kim Jong Un, like his father and grandfather, views the North's nuclear efforts as a necessary counterbalance to what they see as the illegitimate division of the peninsula, the presence of American forces there, and our strategic commitment to the defense of South Korea.
Angela Lemond, a registered dietitian and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), thinks CICO has probably gotten a publicity boost as a counterbalance to the low-carb craze, since it proves you can lose weight without severely cutting back on carbs.
Expect plenty of old masters, but don't miss the crime scene dioramas, mummified monkeys or Eliot Noyes's unrealized Westinghouse pavilion for the 1964 World's Fair — all of it providing a welcome counterbalance to the hothouse of contemporary gallery art that also begins in September.
Not for a moment did I consider that one day, my presence in the United States would be needed as counterbalance to those who want to see walls built between countries and groups of people marked and carded because they come from a different religion.
This system, called the Maneuvering Characteristic Augmentation System, or MCAS, is designed to counterbalance the new weight of these engines by pushing the plane's nose down if this weight tips the plane's nose upward in a way that could force the plane to stall.
In the wake of the US strike that killed Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad last week, Iran's leaders will likely be looking to those alliances to counterbalance American aggression, even as Tehran considers possible retaliation for the death of one of its most popular military figures.
"I think they need another presence that can actually counterbalance Elon's capabilities in terms of visualizing a new reality for an industry with someone who can really mine the pennies and nickels and the details of an operation in a way he can't," Rusch concluded.
"The ballot initiative process offers an important counterbalance to the failings of partisan politics and we are proud of our support for some of the most impactful and important initiatives of the 0003 cycle," Kurtz, the Sixteen Thirty Fund executive director, wrote in an email.
For the Jets, mired in one of their trademark periods of borderline irrelevance, he has been brought in to reform an undisciplined defense and counterbalance Adam Gase, the newly hired coach, who at 40 is one of the league's youngest, most innovative offensive minds.
Why exactly #MeToo took off like it did is a still a little mysterious; people have argued that the lack of retribution for Trump's alleged misconduct — that he won, despite the "grab 'em by the pussy" tape and the women who came forward — produced a counterbalance.
Part of this puzzle is that the gun safety side, or gun control side, needs to continue the things it's been doing: raising more money, spending more money, making it a campaign issue, and building grassroots support to try and counterbalance the longtime dominance of the NRA.
A counterbalance to his trademark caution could be his firsthand knowledge of how a big endorsement can help: One day after the 2012 Iowa caucuses, Romney flew to New Hampshire and was endorsed by his 2008 rival -- and the ultimate GOP nominee that cycle -- Arizona Sen.
Over their five years in operation, the group has made national headlines with their "pink mass" to turn Fred Phelps's deceased mom gay, various litter clean-up initiatives, and, most notably, their (copyrighted) Baphomet statue created to counterbalance any ten commandments monuments erected on public property.
While Salesforce and Microsoft sometimes work together, they also compete, and adding Quip into the mix at Salesforce could one way for Salesforce to do that better (and counterbalance the fact that Microsoft is building and acquiring more products that compete with Salesforce on the CRM front).
The state-run Russia Today channel has been notably enthusiastic about the Trump campaign, and the Republican frontrunner has largely reciprocated, showing an unprecedented lack of support for groups like NATO and the EU that have long served as a counterbalance to Russian influence in eastern Europe.
Also family recipes, generally, are very high in alcohol proof, so what we did, we had to counterbalance it in order to have the flavor of the perfumes come out and become balanced with the tartness and the sweetness so that none of them overcomes the other.
It is on these rinks children and youth from all over the region come together to fulfill their need for recreation and camaraderie, giving them a counterbalance to the high demands of school and household duties while building self-confidence and developing a strong sense of community.
Though not contemporaneous with the movement at its height, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, D.C., and the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, at the Brooklyn Museum, have certainly done much to counterbalance MOMA 's bias toward male Abstract Expressionists.
When the category was announced, Mr. Bailey positioned it as an improvement "needed to keep the Oscars and our academy relevant in a changing world" — an effort to counterbalance an increasing tendency by Oscar voters to honor niche films that most American moviegoers have not seen.
The way this retrospective tells it, the 2727s represented a transformational period in American independent cinema — a time when indies served as a counterbalance to the mallification of Hollywood movies and before they started to become commodified by organizations such as the Sundance Film Festival (now underway).
Sherrod BrownSherrod Campbell BrownThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape Dayton Democrat launches challenge to longtime GOP rep Dayton mayor: Trump visit after shooting was 'difficult on the community' MORE (D-Ohio), the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, offered the counterbalance.
The NBC News Interactive Newsroom was a light counterbalance to that, probably the only section of this interactive museum where someone who wants to be a reporter could see what's like to get on camera and do what many journalists love to do on camera: dick around!
"Macron is not happy to see China win so many prizes in Rome, so he has invented a bizarre European format by inviting Merkel and Juncker as a counterbalance to show that he is the driving force behind European integration," said one Paris-based Asian diplomat.
Rather than seeking to confront Russia in a renewed Cold War, it will be necessary to split Russia from China in a way not dissimilar from how President Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger worked to exploit the Sino-Soviet split to counterbalance the Soviets.
As a center-right president, Mr. Rebelo de Sousa could also act as a counterbalance to the Socialist government of António Costa, who became prime minister in November after forming an unexpected alliance with more radical left-wing parties in order to oust the governing center-right coalition.
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It is seen as a necessary final stage of building a monetary union to provide a counterbalance, together with a euro zone treasury, to the monetary policy of the European Central Bank and as a way to help the single currency area absorb external economic and financial shocks.
"I did always view Tillerson as a counterbalance to the president, and I think we lose that because Mike Pompeo, I believe, thinks and talks more like the president," Michael Hayden, who served as CIA chief for former president George W. Bush, told intelligence journal The Cipher Brief.
"Whether that is a reaction to all the people and pomp she has to go through and maybe that's a counterbalance, or whether that's an absolute articulation of who she is and the rest of it is just torture that she has to endure, I don't know," says Morgan.
It was in this frame of mind that I was sitting at a McDonald's across the street from Fox News headquarters in New York City, waiting for a meeting, when the obvious struck me: We needed someone with a bigger name and footprint to counterbalance the Ryan-Cruz momentum.
NATO is not a shopping mall; it is a strategic alliance that won the Cold War, keeps Europe a stable trading partner for U.S. companies and prevents every European country — particularly Germany — from getting their own nukes to counterbalance Russia, by sheltering them all under America's nuclear umbrella.
Reddit's r/fitness subreddit is another popular community for people looking to get into shape, though its members specialize in taking more of a "tough love" approach in how they encourage each other and serving as a counterbalance to the endless amount of inaccurate fitness information floating around online.
And things don't get better when students go off to college: A much-publicized Brookings Institution report found that 62% of college students think a campus group hosting a controversial speaker is "legally required" by the First Amendment to counterbalance that speaker with one who holds an opposing view.
The advances serve as a counterbalance to some of the controversy that Google and others have courted through initiatives like this, which are optimised for user experience, but have been criticised for pointing people essentially to Google/Facebook/other domains and therefore taking traffic away from the sites themselves.
I was aware of this trope and had tried to counterbalance it by grounding my writing in personal experiences, such as my discomfort with the fancy shoes I had to wear as part of my "costume" for working at Art Stage, and my wife's brief detainment at immigration.
I live in Denmark of my own free will and find a great deal to admire about the Danes and the society they have built, but I felt there was a need for a counterbalance to the Scandimania that has characterized much of the reporting on Denmark and Scandinavia.
American allies in the region, along with many developing countries in Southeast Asia, want the United States to maintain a strong presence, as much to counterbalance China as to promote democratic values, said Kristi Govella, an assistant professor of Asian studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
And while conservative forces are already putting the finishing touches on a $10 million ad blitz targeting red-state Senate Democrats who will come under enormous pressure to back Trump's nominee, People for the American Way is readying a television ad campaign of its own as a counterbalance.
So far, some campaigns are using it in primary contests, but the real test will come in the general election, when tech-enabled Democrats find out whether their spiffy apps offer a meaningful counterbalance against Trump's advantages of incumbency and the social media juggernaut that is his reelection campaign.
These songs might have provided a welcome counterbalance to the more somber, possibly predictable selections by the likes of Buffy Sainte-Marie, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell — whose "Both Sides Now" was given a heartbreakingly conversational rendering by Hunter Cardinal, a first-year student at the Soulpepper Academy.
There is a growing desire among some Democratic voters to see their party play hardball, to impeach Trump, to maybe even pack the Supreme Court in an effort counterbalance what many of these voters see as the theft of a seat that might otherwise have belonged to Merrick Garland.
To counterbalance its above-average exposure to credit risk, PFG maintains a conservatively structured balance sheet with a debt-to-equity ratio under its banking covenant definitions at end-December 1399 of 2.2x (2014: 2.4x), well within management's stated maximum of 23530x and the covenanted limit of 21399x.
The Labour Party, the Scottish Nationalists and the left in general share the belief that the European Union, whatever its faults, is a counterbalance to the United States in world affairs and has taken sharply different views from Washington on issues like data privacy, corporate taxation and the Middle East.
The DNI sits as a counterbalance to this, with some 180 members from across the industry in Europe aiming at coming up with ways to build smarter, tech-driven news organizations that will, arguably, be in control of their own disruption and therefore at least reap the financial benefits of that.
A number of long-simmering advertiser frustrations with the digital world are now coming to a head — rampant ad fraud, measurement concerns, transparency in how ads are sold — and some in the industry have recognized that the only way to counterbalance Google and Facebook's duopoly control is through collective force.
By strengthening Lebanese civil society and educational institutions free of Hezbollah influence — such as the two American universities of higher education, the American University of Beirut and the Lebanese American University — and remaining the major supplier of military aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces, it provides a counterbalance to Hezbollah.
Countries involved: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States NATO -- Frustration with the most important defense alliance -- Trump has teased upending the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance, which was created to counterbalance the Soviet Union and is one of the oldest and most important alliances the US takes part in.
Saudi Arabia may be eager to call attention to the Houthi mines to counterbalance allegations that the kingdom and its principal ally, the United Arab Emirates, have committed war crimes by conducting airstrikes that have killed thousands of civilians and imposing a partial blockade that has threatened Yemen with famine.
To counterbalance any encroaching legal mundanity, Eli begins having wild hallucinations (while in a work meeting, during foreplay) that he learns are caused by a brain aneurysm—but his acupuncturist-turned-confidant Dr. Chen (James Saito) believes that Eli may actually be a prophet, helping Eli to understand the meanings of these visions.
"With sailing, you need to counterbalance the power in the sails with your own body weight to make the boat go faster, so I've been on weight gain for a while now to help us get as much speed out of the boat as possible — especially when it's windy," Groves told Mashable.
ALL YOU HAD IS THE FED WITH THE GAS PEDAL AND NOW YOU HAVE A LITTLE HELP WITH ANOTHER GAS PEDAL AND IS THE FED GOING TO INSTANTLY TRY TO COUNTERBALANCE THAT BY HITTING THE BRAKE.. WHAT'S POINT TO OF HAVING ONE FOOT ON THE PEDAL AND ONE FOOT ON THE BRAKE.
This isn't, of course, a perfect festival: they could counterbalance the power of their headliners' big names to promote even more forward and up-and-coming bands, something they're still somewhat lacking in, and is very much needed—unless they plan on running out of headliners, which is perhaps Vive Latino's biggest caveat.
"While brand leaders Apple Watch and Samsung Galaxy Watch command premium pricing in the smartwatch segment, lower-priced players such as Xiaomi and Huawei will counterbalance high-priced smartwatches with lower cost smartwatches," Atwal added, stating that the average selling prices of smartwatches was expected to decline by 4.5% between 2020 and 2021.
I noticed that, after accepting God into his heart, it seemed like more than anything Head wanted to see the good in people even if it went against gut instinct—an impulse that might seem at odds with Korn's dark worldview but in a way now offers a refreshing counterbalance to it.
But perhaps the clearest demonstration of how TED can be a counterbalance to the 2016 election came Wednesday night when architect Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group and Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, announced plans to build a memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, to commemorate the United States' history of slavery.
Her comments suggested that Mr. Pruitt's work checking off items on the president's agenda — including rolling back a large number of environmental protections — may weigh heavily as a counterbalance to the ethics questions related to his travel expenses, management practices and his rental of a living space from the wife of a prominent lobbyist.
"These papers provide a nice counterbalance to the current norm in nutritional epidemiology where scientists with strong advocacy tend to overstate their findings and ask for major public health overhauls even though the evidence is weak," said Stanford meta-researcher John Ioannidis, a longtime critic of nutrition science who was not involved in the research.
The stock market says the winner is... Trump has made opposition to trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement, implemented under President Bill Clinton, and the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated by President Barack Obama as a counterbalance to China's rising influence in the Asia-Pacific, a centerpiece of his campaign.
The earlier draft order leaked to the press on January 25 contained a separate section calling for the establishment of "safe zones" in the surrounding region where Syrians could "await firm settlement" via repatriation or third country offers — seemingly a palliative (though problematic for many reasons) to counterbalance the harshness of the flat ban.
" Trump's pick for national security adviser, retired general Mike Flynn, has said China should "certainly" be viewed as an enemy of the US. James Mattis, a former general and top contender for defense secretary, last year called for a "policy to build the counterbalance if China continues to expand its bullying role in the South China Sea.
Here's everything you can do through the Subscriptions Center, per Google:View all of their subscriptions to see details and statusManage and update payment methods, including setting up a backup payment methodRenew a subscriptionRestore a canceled subscriptionCancel a subscriptionOf course, the feature comes with the counterbalance of Google also making it easier to push subscriptions on users.
However, he gave credit to these institutions for navigating monetary policy in a way which has supported a 10-year economic recovery since the financial crisis, and said it remained to be seen whether dovish central bank policies would translate into a continuation of economic growth, or whether the potential headwinds from trade and geopolitical issues would counterbalance them.
Should mitigation of the effects of the recent Polish law prove more difficult than expected, or further new legislation either in Poland or in other countries in which IPF operates place pressure on the capacity of its business model to generate the revenues required to counterbalance the group's operating costs and impairment risks, a downgrade could result.
The Patriots prevailed after a lethargic first half because they had Tom Brady and Sony Michel, and that potent tandem can counterbalance certain flaws against certain teams — such as the Jets, who appear to be careening toward an ignominious trifecta: a last-place finish, an eighth straight year missing the playoffs and an off-season coaching search.
The CG scenes are fine enough on their own—it's kinda neat to see Pac-Man played out on city streets with cars functioning as the ghosts—but literally all of the good bits are in the trailer, and even so, there simply aren't enough of these mildly imaginative scenes to counterbalance the non-CG scenes.
Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren have made no visits to the Central Valley, according to the Sacramento Bee tracking map More candidates would be wise to make visits to inlands parts of California, since they would earn free local media coverage that can help counterbalance the massive advertisement buys in California that candidate Bloomberg has already made.
Yet where a dramatic opera traditionally announces itself with bombast, The Ferryman — about a family living under the cyclical sway of political violence in Northern Ireland — is infused throughout with a deliberate lightness, a joyous humanism that attempts to counterbalance all the weight it's carrying: the weight of history, of life under oppression, of personal and communal secrets.
As we say goodbye to a tumultuous and unpredictable 2018 and bring in the new year with the House of Representatives under new management, there are a few priorities Democrats should focus on to ensure they are able to provide a much-needed counterbalance to the never-ending chaos that has emanated from the White House for the last two years.
Perhaps that thing is the counterbalance to the history of loss I often tried to block out with silence: a riotous upswing that, quickly, painlessly, allows the mind to unravel from all the knowing and wondering it has been taught to do; a simple tickle of recognition capable of catching us up in a feeling—no matter how very fleeting—of historical joy.
And it has been made abundantly clear that the Republican plan will protect fewer people than Obamacare..   As I watch America again debate if we should take care of our sick, the stories of those whose lives have been saved by Obamacare serve as a powerful counterbalance to politicians who would cut taxes for the rich by any means necessary.
He has been held up as a figure of disdain across the spectrum: Trump-lovers have remained suspicious of him as a tool of the establishment and are quick to raise Ryan's sacrileges against their hero during the campaign; Democrats, "never Trump" conservatives and — quietly — some elected Republicans wish Ryan would provide a stronger counterbalance to a battering-ram president.
But now, every time I imagine a nefarious hacker targeting a voting database to commit a crime, I can counterbalance the thought by recalling a thoughtful conversation I had with Nick Bishop and Mike Westmacott, two hackers I met at Defcon who were diligently taking apart and testing a Diebold voting machine in an attempt to identify — and increase awareness of — its vulnerabilities.
Putin has turned to Xi to counterbalance US and European pressure, particularly over the 2014 annexation of Crimea, while Xi has been only too happy to count Russia among its allies as he expands his influence westward through his signature Belt and Road infrastructure and trade megaproject and looks to counter the impact of the the US-China trade war.
Money, of course: The plan was enacted as part of a push to get rid of 22,000 employees in order to counterbalance $50 million in debt incurred after the company privatized—it was formerly a piece of the French government's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, meaning its employees were granted special protection as civil servants that prevented their higher-ups from firing them.
Michael Coe, a Yale University chocolate historian and co-author of the book The True History of Chocolate, views Big Candy's investment in cocoa science as an effort to counterbalance the negative publicity that came out of the fair trade movement, which highlighted the cocoa industry's dependence on child and slave labor, as well as the evidence suggesting the obesity epidemic is being driven by sugar.
The Russian President has tapped into the imperial nostalgia of millions of Russians and, with the help of monopolistic propaganda, he has become the symbol and embodiment of "Russia rising from its knees" to recover the Soviet Union's position of superpower, of being feared and thus globally respected, and most of all to pursue Russia's self-declared mission of being the only counterbalance to the evil United States.
Ms. Pascal was often at her best as a studio executive when she was pushing ahead films dismissed by male counterparts as "chick flicks": "A League of Their Own" (1992, a home run); "Little Women" (1994, Winona Ryder at her peak); "Charlie's Angels" (2000, a sequel-spawning hit); "Julie & Julia" (2009, Meryl Streep's 16th Oscar nomination.) "I'm not trying to correct or counterbalance," Ms. Pascal said, referring to male-dominated Hollywood.
Greaves, 40, who describes his group as an "atheistic religious organization that uses the symbol of Satan to inspire civil justice," says that Satanic Temple volunteers will run clubs in cities from Seattle to Atlanta with the goal of ending up in all 50 states to "counterbalance" groups run by the Child Evangelism Fellowship that have been meeting in public schools since winning a lawsuit heard by the Supreme Court in 2001.

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