"important" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Since the improvement in Chinese-American relations in the early 1970's, China has served as an important American strategic counterweight to the Soviet Union.
- More than Britain, though, it has viewed its military strength as an important political counterweight to West Germany's economic might.
- Let's not forget that during bad times the GLC was an important counterweight to Thatcherite policies - one reason it was popular and the main reason Thatcher got rid of it.
- But he says it remains a compelling force and an important counterweight to the popular notion that the country is more divided than it used to be.
- The Taliban have found favor with some American officials, who see in their implacable hostility toward Iran an important counterweight in the region.
- The charter, which deals in broad terms with labor, welfare and other rights, has been supported by several governments as an important counterweight to the strong pro-business orientation of much of the integration program.
- But others disagree, calling the new legal activism an important counterweight to the power and resources of corporations.
- He could prove an important counterweight and political rival to the new mayor.
- The monitoring of legality is an important counterweight to ensure that an accused is afforded the minimum rights according to the requirements of a modern democracy.
- As the bishops with seats in the Council of the Realm grew in influence in the late middle ages, the royal clergy formed an important counterweight.
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