| When it is, one must look to international law for countervailing principles, and to politics, above all, for a way through. |
| Otherwise the actions designed to exert countervailing pressure could result in political disaster. |
| However, there is also countervailing evidence to indicate that when concentration is extreme, innovation is squelched. |
| But the deeper one looks, the more countervailing stories one finds, and before long the past is as muddy as the present. |
| Any particular discretionary matter may be subject to countervailing matters of equal or greater weight. |
| The prospects for improving labor standards at the domestic level are constrained by two countervailing market forces. |
