countervail

Example Sentences

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We depend on our memory to record, to learn and to recall, and we depend on forgetting to countervail, to sculpt and to squelch our memories.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2022

And for years, the company’s actions and public statements have borne the imprint of Musk’s whims, with no moderating force to countervail them.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2018

No time was to be lost, and measures were immediately taken to countervail these designs.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

To countervail these misleading forces, by means of a fixed rational character built up through meditation and philosophical teaching, was the grand purpose of the Stoic ethical creed.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

It is this historico-cultural argument that has been advanced to the forefront; and against it, where is there found, in the preceding hostile summary of anatomical facts, even the feeblest countervail?

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin