The Gran Colombia emerged as a counterbalance to the alleged Peruvian threat.

As China buys all these crappy cars, we should be riding things like this. Counterbalance.

If Paris got together with Berlin, Britain got together with Vienna and Rome to provide a counterbalance.

But, apart from its military strength, the USSR was never really powerful enough to counterbalance US influence.

She wondered whether such programmes provided for monitoring mechanisms or plans of action to counterbalance those effects.

Tiger mothering might seem to be a useful counterbalance to such permissiveness, but both extremes leave something out.

Did Greece have a civilian review board or similar entity to counterbalance police officers' refusal to incriminate one another?

Such leverage could in turn prompt a downstream state to build up its military capacity to help counterbalance this disadvantage.

This is a clear illustration of how everyday actions, done collectively and with common goals, can provide a counterbalance to adversity.

So during this time I needed some kind of counterbalance for this crazy, crazy existence of going to these long, idiotic meetings.

Second, they overestimated the extent to which quantitative easing (QE) by the monetary authorities that is, printing money could counterbalance fiscal tightening.

Other Asian countries might even be drawn closer to Japan, the only alternative to the US as a counterbalance to the Middle Kingdom.

But, despite deep historical animosity over World War II, there are increasing calls in the region for Japan to expand its influence to counterbalance China.

In a sense, these Sunni groups are creating an armed enclave in northern Lebanon to counterbalance the armed Shia enclaves in Beirut, the south, and the Bekaa region.

Inside of the bronze ball there's a lead weight that is free swinging on an axle that's on two bearings that pass in between, across it, like this, that counterbalance this weight.

And the US cannot reach an accord with Pakistan without India s consent, which America would be unable to force, especially given that it relies on India to counterbalance China s growing clout in Asia.

There is little doubt that the SCO is an instrument for Russia and China to make the case for a multi polar world based on regional security blocs that counterbalance American strategic hegemony.

Under Saddam Hussein, restrictions were imposed on the Shiite seminary in Najaf traditionally a counterbalance to Iran s Shiite establishment forcing the emigration of a number of clerics to the Iranian seminary in Qom.

The world s power centers are beginning to counterbalance each other, undermining hegemonic ambitions and heralding a creative instability based on genuine multipolarity, with people gaining greater freedom to define their fate in the global arena.

Further minimizing reliance on a single major partner, successive Czech governments have welcomed U.S. investment (amongst others) as a counterbalance to the strong economic influence of Western European partners, especially of their powerful neighbour, Germany.

As rising authoritarian powers, China or Russia, for example, have no reason to use their growing international influence to promote democracy on the contrary, they increasingly counterbalance the efforts of Western countries to promote political liberty.

The Cold War s bipolar governance structures and a subsequent period of American unilateralism to which the non aligned states attempted to act as a counterbalance have given way to a much more complex and interdependent multi polar world.

During Vladimir Putin s presidency, Chinese and Russian troops engaged in joint military maneuvers, and the two countries became dominant powers in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which, to some Western observers, looked like an effort to counterbalance NATO.

The proposed Union of South American Nations (Unasur), like the South American Defense Council, is part of a Brazilian regional strategy to encourage cooperation within Latin America in order to counterbalance the power of the United States and act as a mediator in regional disagreements.

These laws established an elementary school system, middle school system, normal school system and an imperial university system.

(c) Complete new projects, including legacy system stabilization, the Lawson accounting system upgrade, the correspondence system and the disability monitoring system.

Payroll, payroll system and payroll processing system

SYSTEM

System

Legal system and judiciary Hong Kong's legal system is completely independent from the legal system of mainland China.

UNIX System V (pronounced System Five ) is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system.

The AVLIS system consists of a vaporizer and a collector, forming the separation system, and the laser system.

The electoral system is a mixed member majoritarian (MMM) system.

System Testing

Operating System

Upgraded system

Upgrading system

Informal system

Formal system

System coherence

The auditory system is the sensory system for the sense of hearing.

Crystals in the rhombohedral lattice system are always in the trigonal crystal system, but some crystals such as quartz are in the trigonal crystal system but not in the rhombohedral lattice system.

The Unix file system (UFS also called the Berkeley Fast File System, the BSD Fast File System or FFS) is a file system used by many Unix and Unix like operating systems.

Law and criminal justice The Portuguese legal system is part of the civil law legal system, also called the continental family legal system.

A home directory is a file system directory on a multi user operating system containing files for a given user of the system.