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counteracted

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of Counteract

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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything. Vikram Seth

The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized to each individual user's psychological profile in order to maximize their effectiveness. Douglas Rushkoff

Deep inside, the majority of people had the sneaking suspicion that evil was more powerful than good and could be counteracted only by more evil. Randall Garrett

The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions. Conrad Black

Conversely, there are forbidden truths: This same threat to the continuance of the community is also counteracted by relentlessly preventing anyone from thinking and uttering unconventional but authentic truths. Karl Jaspers

However, much of the benefit of this reform was counteracted by compulsive collectivization, State farms and forced resettlement programmes. Source: Internet

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