(d) A consideration of a balancing test that weighs up the costs and benefit of substantive consolidation.

The fact that Iran is arming the Assad regime calls for countervailing action.

Today, however, there is no external counterweight to the domestic political pressure that is stalling further liberalization.

The Court would also serve as a counterbalance to the Security Council and ensure that justice did not fall victim to political considerations.

Integration had its own historical momentum if and when it goes into reverse, that process will have a counter momentum.

In order for the US economy to run deficits with the world, other countries must be willing to spin off a counterbalancing supply of savings.

This arrangement is unthinkable without an extremely robust counterpart for example, prior scrutiny of national budgets.

Indeed, Albert del Rosario, the foreign minister of the Philippines, which was under Japanese occupation during WWII, now strongly supports a re armed Japan as a counterweight to China.

By destroying Iraq as a counterbalancing regional force, the US dealt a major blow to its traditional Gulf allies, for whom Iraq served as a barrier against Iran s ambitions.

In the US, by contrast, local residents benefit handsomely from being able to sell their ownership rights to gas companies a strong counter balance to fears of environmental costs.

Franconians in southern Germany disliked the fact that the Napoleonic Wars subjected them to Bavarian rule they saw German nationalism as a way to use Prussia and Berlin as a counterweight to Munich s hegemony.

Is the bank supposed to serve as a counterweight to global multilateral development banks like the World Bank, or to reduce American and European dominance over the Bretton Woods institutions?

In the heyday of American dominance, European governments profited doubly they were part of a powerful West and courted as a potential counterweight to US dominance by third countries.

12. In our opinion, such differentiation may be sustained from a legal standpoint only on the basis of the principle that greater rights should entail as their concomitant greater responsibilities, at least with respect to the maintenance of international peace and security.

Graphic images of the damage that smoking causes can counter balance the power of these appeals to the unconscious, thereby facilitating more deliberative decision making and making it easier for people to stick to a resolution to quit smoking.

With periodic bouts of contagion in the eurozone and residual uncertainty about America s commitment to a strong dollar and fiscal discipline, major reserve holders in Asia and the Gulf need to become a stabilizing counterweight.

The withdrawal of US forces from Iraq only seems to have encouraged Turkey s will to create a cordon sanitaire on the Iraqi side of the border and possibly to establish a counterweight to Iran s influence on a Shia led government in Baghdad.

Once again we must ask what kind of United Nations Charter and legal principles is it that we are sustaining if military might is legitimized as a counterbalance to legality and morality in order to coerce people into any settlement?

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.

Irani s growing influence over the Syrian security apparatus is well established, and Iran is funding an effort to create Syrian Shia militias to compensate for Assad s sagging support in the army and in the minority Alawite community.

In 1870, when distinguishing the notion of fatherland from that of nation and applying the latter to Greater Syria, Marrash would point to the role played by language, among other factors, in counterbalancing religious and sectarian differences, and thus, in defining national identity.