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"Counterbalance" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Tom, this lumber, sat at one end of this sentence, while, too light to counterbalance him, on the other side, sat Mary.
I don't think this business could have succeeded without my keen, calculating partner to counterbalance my adventurous nature.
I don't exercise enough to counterbalance the amount of calories I take in.
Big brother counterbalances his two siblings to the pound.
[…] the remaining Air was not able to counterballance the Mercurial Cylinder, […]
Arm wrestling is undecided as long as the opponents counterbalance each other.
The defenders' knowledge of the terrain roughly counterbalances the attackers' superior equipment.
Still, a strong reluctance to re-enter a service from which he had been dismissed with contempt, almost counterbalanced these considerations.
Perhaps her views of life were too morbid, but her companions had enough cheerfulness to counterbalance any undue tinge of sadness given by one who had obviously suffered much.
[…] the study of mind is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of matter; […]
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A considerable effort has been made in these volumes to counterbalance this activity by introducing the student to the plants as living entities with a "life of their own," as Spruce put it.
It's almost eerie, in the wake of the Lawrence Summers controversy, to encounter the words of an earlier Harvard president, John Kirkland, a "friend and mentor" of Elizabeth's, who advised her that if any woman "is raised by genius and knowledge above the level of her sex, her neglect of attention appropriate to the best half of creation, attentions called femininities, will more than counterbalance all her advantages and reduce her below other women."
Government control was inconsistent and (at times) motivated by wider political issues that prevented BR being able to charge reasonable rates. Counterbalancing this was the Commission's own policy regarding freight charges. It frequently did not charge enough to cover direct costs (the so-called exceptional rates), causing massive losses to accrue on merchandise movements.
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