Word: counteract
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...This inclination to find the root of all evil in the sins of the other and not in those of the self is as wrong as it is natural. There ought, however, to be some resource in the Christian church to counteract it; for the Christian faith insists that the primary encounter in human life is not between good and evil men, nations or institutions, but between all men and God. 'Whosoever thou art that judges,' declares St. Paul, 'thou thyself doest the same thing.' . . . The root of all Christian charity lies in the contrite recognition...
...counteract the seductions of electricity and indoor plumbing, the Soviets sent officers and wives to school. Subject: the superiority of the Soviet way of life. Russian troops got the same course, but proved even harder to convince. Large numbers deserted when faced with going back to Russia...
Hamilton Fish, once a Congressman, said he was about to reappear as a magazine publisher; he proposed to counteract Henry Wallace's New Republic influence. Also, said Fish, he would soon have a book out-"one dollar on newsstands, just like Wendell Willkie's book, One World...
Rowing downstream to counteract a strong wind and quartering chop, the Crimson jumped into an immediate lead and breezed over the one-mile course to win going away, with two lengths of open water between them and Tech. Stroke Julian Roosevelt settled into a smooth 32 beat which left the Engineers behind...
...take place during the growth. Dewey & Dakin hold, along with Alvin H. Hansen and other "mature school" economists, that the end of the U.S. economy is leveling off, that it has matured. Consequently, the downswings of the cycles may become deeper because there is less & less new growth to counteract them...