Word: counteract
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...support patriotism to the extent that it illustrates a love for one’s country. The manner in which the Rally for Patriotism was proposed to me by those organizing it implied that the rally was held to counteract the earlier peace rally and had no purpose other than to say that the peace rally was wrong...
Trager said his goal in engineering the rally was to counteract what he views as “distaste of the government throughout the campus” and an “innappropriate distrust and second-guessing of our government at this present time...
...facing a tough time passing his reform agenda through a hostile legislature. Does the ?special relationship' he's cultivating with President Bush counteract his domestic political weakness...
Sure enough, he found that the sisters with high folate levels showed little evidence of Alzheimer's-type damage in their brain after death. This makes a certain amount of sense; folate tends to counteract the effects of homocysteine, an amino acid produced in the body that has been implicated in cardiovascular disease. Plenty of folate in the blood would thus mean less chance of stroke--and might even protect brain cells from damage by homocysteine in the brain...
Before the match, Havard Coach Tom Wilson set three goals for his squad: to serve agressively, to pass off the serve better, and to quicken the team's blocking speed to counteract the Hawks' team speed...