Word: counterweights
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...harm." Given this bias, one could hardly expect a dispassionate recollection of times past. But H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life is more than the defense of a neglected author. It is a kind of intellectual's Mommie Dearest, a serious chronicle that uses Rebecca West as a counterweight to raise the reputation of her lover...
...attack on Marines in Lebanon-though whom to retaliate against, and how, was an unresolved question. Largely at the instigation of Secretary of State George Shultz, the U.S. was also trying to forge closer ties to Israel, seeking somehow to make use of Israeli military might as a counterweight to the troublemaking capacity of Soviet-backed Syria...
Kohl, on the other hand, is anxious to keep Genscher and the F.D.P. as a counterweight to Strauss, who was defeated handily in the 1980 elections by Schmidt. Kohl knows that governing with the formidable Bavarian at his elbow would be like a dachshund's trying to control a rogue elephant. In addition, Kohl feels that the Christian Democrats need to forge a strong alliance with the F.D.P. if they hope to remain in power for more than one term. Kohl is reported to believe that the conservatives in West Germany today do not hold a "natural" majority, since...
Hoffman's counterweight in the often heated discussion, which included audience participation, was Avi Nelson, a conservative political commentator and former Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate Nelson took the poorly received position that "in a society as open as ours, we have ample procedure to change the laws...
...that since 1963 he has served as commander of the 40,000-man Saudi National Guard, the Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah kingdom's key internal-security unit. The tribally based guard protects the country's main cities, oilfields and communications facilities, and was conceived as a deliberate counterweight to Saudi Arabia's being army. Its ultimate purpose is to prevent a military coup from being launched against the royal family...