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Example sentences for "countervailing"

Lexicographically close words:
counterstroke; countersunk; counterterrorism; countervail; countervailed; counterweight; counterweights; counterwork; countes; countesse
  1. This must be stopped as soon as possible, and Ireland grows stronger every day.

  2. The English people must indeed be fools if they cannot gauge the feeling that dictated a vote so mean as this.

  3. The Irish people have seen the English spending their money for centuries.

  4. The town is built on two parallel streets, and Church Street is the principal connecting artery, about a hundred yards long.

  5. The accursed influences are ever at work, on the platform, in the press, at the altar, and I see no countervailing agency.

  6. No countervailing advantage is given to the landlords.

  7. To the eighth Demonstration, ingenious as it is, succeeds a countervailing reversal in the ninth: the Neither following the Both.

  8. But by the Treaty, she has reserved to herself the right to take such countervailing measures against our existing regulations; and we have surrendered our rights to pursue further defensive measures against the influence of her capital.

  9. Nor has Great Britain ever deemed it prudent to attempt any countervailing measures for her shipping, well knowing that we could easily keep up the differences by further measures on our side.

  10. Should the countervailing duties take place in the British ports in Europe on American vessels, they will probably be shut out of them altogether.

  11. They praise Him and prostrate themselves before Him.

  12. These are they whom God hath guided: follow therefore their guidance.

  13. Whenever a tax bore with unequal effect on the land, when it did not affect labour bestowed in other employments, a countervailing duty on importation should, I think, be also imposed.

  14. A tax on home corn raises prices twice over, and should be accompanied by a countervailing duty, not necessary in other cases (XXIX).

  15. But should false calculations of interest defeat our hope, it rests with the Legislature to decide whether they will meet inequalities abroad with countervailing inequalities at home, or provide for the evil in any other way.

  16. It is with satisfaction I lay before you an act of the British Parliament anticipating this subject so far as to authorize a mutual abolition of the duties and countervailing duties, permitted under the treaty of 1794.

  17. It is with satisfaction I lay before you an act of the British Parliament anticipating this subject so far as to authorize a mutual abolition of the duties and countervailing duties permitted under the treaty of 1794.

  18. It shows that Empedokles was distinctly aware of the pressure of the air as countervailing the ascending movement of the water, and the removal of that pressure as allowing such movement.

  19. They cannot support our cold, but we can support the countervailing hardships of their heat.

  20. It must be a cordial, powerful, and eternal comfort, infusing heavenly and supernatural strength into the soul, by which the fear of death and the love of the world may both be subdued.

  21. They prayed, and so they were healed and comforted.

  22. This has been the constant practice of all the saints, from the beginning of the world until now.

  23. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass.

  24. Now all this begets so solid a trust in Christ, and so close a union with him, as neither death nor life is able to dissolve.

  25. But they also have their countervailing losses.

  26. Lord Elgin's Government had to agree to levy a countervailing Excise duty of 5 per cent on cotton fabrics manufactured in Indian power mills.

  27. It is merely a countervailing duty to balance discriminating duties in France upon the same articles as imported in French or American vessels.


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