Word: counteract
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...there is a good chance the new Congress will crack from the intense pressure it will be under. Holding a hard line on spending cuts against dozens of clamoring interests could be an impossible task. Unless, that is, there emerges enough vocal and visible pressure for fiscal responsibility to counteract the pressure to spend...
...will smile knowingly, powerless to counteract my displacing magic, to set the universe right. Then, she'll usher me in and administer the exam for which I had five slow and leisurely days to study...
...releasing such a document so soon after Bush's dictum led to a mini-disaster. The president forced her to apologize, and the press was occupied with the story during an important time for Bush--the post-convention days, when he needed to seem friendly and inclusive to counteract the divisive disaster of Houston. The image of a nastily-run campaign was 180 degrees wrong for the time...
Members of the Massachusetts chapter of NOW instructed a group consisting mostly of women in combat and defense tactics to counteract action by Operation Rescue, a prolife activist group which organizes highly publicized blockades of abortion clinics...
...grow up corporate, Nader would say in his stump speeches, railing against Tony the Tiger and network television, praising good nutrition and reading. Nader says large corporations have too much influence over the government, and he advocates specific structural reforms to counteract those influences...