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Definition of Counteracted
1. counteract [v] - See also: counteract
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counteracted
Literary usage of Counteracted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John C. Calhoun by John Caldwell Calhoun, Richard Kenner Crallé (1851)
"In the case of governments of the concurrent majority, there is, besides these,
the love of country, than which, if not counteracted by the unequal and ..."
2. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1904)
"J From the causes now enumerated, unless counteracted by others, the progress of
things ... But is it the fact, that these tendencies are not counteracted ? ..."
3. Principles of Political Economy by Joseph Shield Nicholson (1902)
"... Return may be counteracted. The chief practical importance of the law of
diminishing return in agriculture arises in reference to the conditions under ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... so that any partial separation which may take place while the liquids pass up
one tube, may be counteracted as they pass down the next. ..."
5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... that of self-righting; and the sacrifice of this quality is largely counteracted
by the ease with which it can be righted by its crew when capsized. ..."
6. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"... counteracted, as was the lesion induced increase in the alpha-MT-induced
depletion of DA stores, which was replaced by a reduction of the ..."
7. Travels in New-England and New-York by Timothy Dwight (1823)
"LETTER Ill. The Effects of the Principles, avowed by the Leaders of the French
Revolution, counteracted and destroyed, in a great measure, ..."
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