(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.

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

You have to put in hundreds of microscopic wires to record from little tiny individual neurons ordinary fibers that put out tiny signals that are microvolts.

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.

Although silicon s light absorbing properties are suitable for photovoltaic devices, the near 0.5 volts that it generates is too weak to split water in a solar fuel generator.

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.

In electric circuits analysis, nodal analysis, node voltage analysis, or the branch current method is a method of determining the voltage (potential difference) between nodes (points where elements or branches connect) in an electrical circuit in terms of the branch currents.

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.

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.

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.