counterweight
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Days later, Carney delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he urged smaller nations to band together as an economic counterweight to larger powers.
From Barron's
The governor looked to define his legacy by touting California’s economic and policy achievements while casting the state as a counterweight to dysfunction in Washington.
From Los Angeles Times
The governor looked to define his legacy by touting California’s economic and policy achievements while casting the state as a counterweight to dysfunction in Washington.
From Los Angeles Times
Under these conditions, Japan is in a position to play an even greater geopolitical role than simply a regional counterweight to China.
But the necessity of having such a counterweight, and the choice of the labor movement as the obvious contender, is getting more bipartisan attention these days than at any time in recent memory.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
