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At the same time, U.S. traditional allies in East Asia have been expressing support for continuing U.S. military presence as a way of counter-balancing China's growing assertiveness.
Leon T. Hadar: When Obama Meets Hu: "Normalizing" Sino-American Relationship? Leon T. Hadar 2011
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Immigration is likely to have an even stronger counter-balancing effect on natives 'policy preferences because, as far as most Americans are concerned, immigrants from Latin American are much more of an "out-group" than American blacks.
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The US is the most powerful state in the international system right now, but it does not require the efforts of a counter-balancing coalition to limit its freedom of action.
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I blame those cable news shows that on both sides put forth some violently extreme talking head, and as counter-balancing opinion, another nut job who mostly agrees with them.
Peter Samuelson: Democracy With No Center Is a Zero Peter Samuelson 2011
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By sweeping away the counter-balancing role of civil society, business and investor interests have a clear path to greater wealth.
Stan Sorscher: Making Business Succeed Stan Sorscher 2011
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Given these counter-balancing forces, 10-12% is probably a reasonable estimate of the fraction of the health care bill due to patented drugs.
David K. Levine: Save the Whales! Abolish Patents! David K. Levine 2010
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At the same time, U.S. traditional allies in East Asia have been expressing support for continuing U.S. military presence as a way of counter-balancing China's growing assertiveness.
Leon T. Hadar: When Obama Meets Hu: "Normalizing" Sino-American Relationship? Leon T. Hadar 2011
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By sweeping away the counter-balancing role of civil society, business and investor interests have a clear path to greater wealth.
Stan Sorscher: Making Business Succeed Stan Sorscher 2011
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If you cut your sleep-depriving systems off at the pass, by doing an intelligent, counter-balancing amount of exercise during your day or about an hour before bed, then a more chill sequence right before you sleep, in very little time, you can make huge changes in the way you feel when you dive under those covers.
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However, its greatest appeal is how it would significantly benefit American manufacturing by counter-balancing, so to speak, the benefits which now flow only to overseas manufacturers.
Leo Hindery, Jr.: Creating Jobs -- Two Better Ways To Do It 2010
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