| Any particular discretionary matter may be subject to countervailing matters of equal or greater weight. |
| Otherwise the actions designed to exert countervailing pressure could result in political disaster. |
| However, there is also countervailing evidence to indicate that when concentration is extreme, innovation is squelched. |
| Even the broadest discretion is constrained by the need for there to be countervailing circumstances justifying interference with human rights. |
| But we are concerned because there is a strong presidency without countervailing institutions. |
| When it is, one must look to international law for countervailing principles, and to politics, above all, for a way through. |
