What's the difference between counterbalance and countervail?
Counterbalance
Definition:
(v. t.) To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
(n.) A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another
(n.) A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel
(n.) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
(2) To counterbalance integration against the threat of riots is basically the Tebbit test without the sport.
(3) Dose dependency of disposition and absorption counterbalance each other in the usual dose range.
(4) This study suggests that the changes in cholesterol metabolism after jejunoileostomy are dependent on the length of functioning jejunum and ileum in such a way that the effects of the two segments counterbalance each other.
(5) A large turn-out of Democratic supporters is needed in working-class cities in the north of Ohio to counterbalance Republican support in the largely rural areas to the south.
(6) In contrast, AVP sensitizes the sympathetic control of the mesenteric vascular bed to counterbalance its potent local vasoconstrictor effects.
(7) The results show that the ability to support survival of primary cultured hepatocytes is not a common property of liver-tumor-promoter barbiturates but is a common property of some barbiturates with high lipophilicity, and that the maintenance of hepatocytes by phenobarbital or amobarbital is not due to a counterbalance of stimulated proliferation and death of the cells.
(8) It is also, still, an important counterbalance to the power of BBC television, above all BBC1.
(9) Ahmadinejad's address to heads of state at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), in Kazakhstan could deepen suspicions that the bloc is intended as a counterbalance to US influence across the region.
(10) Inhibition of VPA beta-oxidation by salicylate was sufficient to counterbalance the increased elimination of VPA as its conjugates and explains why total clearance of VPA after salicylate remains unchanged even though the free fraction of VPA is increased.
(11) The major effects of ADH on urinary acidification serve at least to counterbalance disturbing consequences on urinary ammonia excretion of physiological variations in the urinary flow rate.
(12) Quantitation of the contribution of each kidney, by means of a 99mTc-DTPA scan, showed that the glomerular filtration rate of the native kidneys had decreased to counterbalance the added function.
(13) It is known that the halophilic green alga Dunaliella tertiolecta grows under hypertonic conditions (with NaCl), which induce the intracellular accumulation of high concentrations of glycerol in order to counterbalance the osmotic change.
(14) Those behind the deal said they hoped to use the SCMP to paint a more positive picture of China and provide a counterbalance to the western media’s “too ideological and biased” coverage.
(15) The importance of the Bainbridge reflex as a counterbalance to the baroreceptor reflex is discussed.
(16) For both reactions the activation enthalpies and entropies change markedly with menaquinone chain length but counterbalance each other, resulting in activation free energies at ambient temperature independent of the menaquinone tail.
(17) It is suggested that K+ elevation counterbalance both PRA decrease and ANF increase to be responsible for the absence of change in plasma ALD during beta-blockade.
(18) Turn Britain's regions into subsidiaries of London, raze its business and political elites, and you have hardly any counterbalance to the might of the City.
(19) Simultaneous hemodilution with hydroxyethyl starch can counterbalance the already existing changes.
(20) However, the animals consistently retained sodium, and the high plasma levels of ANF were unable to counterbalance the sodium-retaining actions of DOCA.
Countervail
Definition:
(v. t.) To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate.
(n.) Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital.
Example Sentences:
(1) He strongly welcomes the rise of the NGO movement, which combines with media coverage to produce the beginning of some "countervailing power" to the larger corporations and the traditional policies of first world governments.
(2) The genesis of the modern ischemic forearm exercise test (IFET) employing the measurement of lactate and ammonia as countervailing metabolites is briefly reviewed, along with the application of the lactate ammonia exercise ratio in the diagnosis of myoadenylate deaminase deficiency and disorders of glycolysis and glycogenolysis.
(3) We conclude that both renal and adrenal actions of ANF can be rendered ineffective by countervailing mechanisms, suggesting an explanation for the apparent lack of biological activity of endogenously elevated plasma NAF in some disease states.
(4) He is less of a natural autocrat than Thatcher, but he has faced less effective opposition from rival Ministers, opposition parties or countervailing bodies.
(5) The battle between countervailing factions in the Trump White House continues to ebb and flow, but the president’s reflexes in times of adversity lead him to fall back on the “America First” narrative that got him elected in the first place.
(6) A further consequence is that, in the absence of countervailing human rights protections, anti-terrorism laws have created new precedents, understandings, expectations and political conventions about the proper limits of government in Australia.
(7) Although multiple factors, including lactic acidosis, might have countervailed the effect of her hypermagnesemia on the AG, there is no actual substantiation in the literature of an association between increased serum Mg and AG lowering.
(8) Various sources of non-market (collective) failure are then identified, as countervailing argument.
(9) It also warns that tax credits – the Labour's government's method of preventing stagnating incomes – will no longer be able to act as a countervailing force owing to the need to cut the deficit.
(10) Calling for legislation that would put workers on the boards of all but the smallest companies, the pair note: "What matters most for reducing inequality is the strength of progressive politics as a countervailing voice in society.
(11) All others had to shadow, with no countervailing leverage.
(12) Over the last generation, the weakening of trade unions’ countervailing market power has seen around 5.5% of GDP being moved permanently from the workforce to shareholders.
(13) It is in fact established that the incidence of endometrial adenocarcinomas is augmented by the application of a continuous oestrogenic without countervailing progestational-stimulus.
(14) Countervailing trends in the use of convenience foods and dining out increase the difficulty for individuals to lower sodium intake.
(15) Thus, they were providing the countervailing force that is a necessary component of accountability when the persons to be served are a powerless group.
(16) A better approach to maternal-fetal conflicts emphasizes mutually held goals rather than countervailing rights and uses the doctrine of informed consent to enhance the pregnant woman's ability to make responsible choices for both herself and her fetus.
(17) One major conclusion is that while school counselors and, to a lesser extent, classroom teachers often expressed the feeling that they should be more proactive and supportive as professionals committed to the welfare of all of their students, due to countervailing expressions of high levels of personal prejudice, ignorance, and fear, the realities of their professional intervention and support were negligible.
(18) This countervailing force would disseminate objective drug information to clinicians through 2,000 therapeutic consultants, subsidize professional journals and schools, develop regional drug information centers, and conduct a variety of related functions.
(19) "If great pressure is coming from above for cuts there has to be an equal, indeed more powerful, countervailing pressure from below, from the people," said Gibbons.
(20) Second, biocultural games on average exhibit greater equilibrium strategy diversity because of the countervailing influences of cultural transmission and natural selection.