They in fact far outbalance the form letters (and my one “mean” rejection). From Wordnik.com. [Rinse, Repeat « A Little Imagination] Reference
Pain must outbalance pleasure by two parts to one, she thought; in all social relations. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
Others believe the possession of rights to be a weighty consideration but not so weighty as to outbalance every other moral claim. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rights] Reference
On Royal Hill, Buenos Aires sells several delicious varieties of empanada, and clafoutis that more than outbalance a jog up the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Meantime « Squares of Wheat] Reference
"The final cost of the possible duty ... would clearly outbalance the benefit that could be expected" for EU manufacturers, the commission's recommendation said. From Wordnik.com. [Regulator Won't Push for China Tariffs] Reference
And since the opportunities for oral practice enormously outbalance those for written, it is the oral which are chiefly significant in the development of literary power. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
They are very sympathetic to my position at the school division but a couple of people wanting gmail access doesn't outbalance the need to protect the entire division from spam. From Wordnik.com. [Gmail and the Decision for Inaction] Reference
The best you can expect to do is to make the right thing happen most of the time-actually, you will do well to have the right things outbalance the not-so-right things over the long term. From Wordnik.com. [The Bear and the Dragon]
The dust-pan, brush, and duster, in the centre, point to future domestic vexations, but the large spray of iris beside it promises a pleasure which will far outbalance the trifling disturbance. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
But what you're saying is that the President's agreement, or the agreement that was announced when this whole thing started, that the question would no longer be asked about orientation; is it something which is also subject to negotiation if cohesion were to outbalance that?. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By George Stephanopoulos] Reference
This does not outbalance that which is not denied. From Wordnik.com. [Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories] Reference
Page 160 she snatched the child away, would, even in my own mind, far outbalance the weightiest of my arguments. From Wordnik.com. [The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive] Reference
In military operations success or defeat are in the scales, and the least little occurrence is liable to outbalance the other. From Wordnik.com. [Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870] Reference
Yet a good digestion, a bounding pulse, and high spirits are elements of happiness which no external advantages can outbalance. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics] Reference
There was nothing, therefore, to outbalance this unfavourable report, but the apparent malignity and grossness of those who gave it. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
But verily the fear of imagination would far outbalance any love of it, if crime had peopled for a man that viewless world with spectres, and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference
What may hasten the explosion is that the conflicting parties have no agreed-upon rules of play and that some are manoeuvring to outbalance and unbalance the others. From Wordnik.com. [Al-Ahram Weekly Online] Reference
Every act of locomotion implies the expenditure of certain internal mechanical forces, adapted in amounts and directions to balance or outbalance certain external ones. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics] Reference
Not only is pride hurt, not only is the expanded self-love injured, but such children are a physical care and burden of such a nature as to outbalance that of three or four normal children. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Housewife] Reference
But women will do so again and again; so it must be concluded that they believe the pleasure to outbalance the pain; and so it is clearly the woman who has the better share in the enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
But he pronounced that the injury of the transport would outbalance the casual evils of the bad weather, and as the rain and fog mitigated, she improved; but there were others on whom the heavy moist air had a more fatal effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Step-Mother] Reference
About it were green savannahs, forest reaches, the call of bird and deer, while in the distance, fronted by a stretch of columns a mile in length, the palace stood -- a palace so ineffably charming that on the day of reckoning may it outbalance a few of his sins. From Wordnik.com. [Imperial Purple] Reference
And once people have been driven into cab, train, or omnibus, the only reason why they should get out to a residence here rather than there is the necessity of saving time, and such a violent upward gradient of fares as will quite outbalance the downward gradient of ground values. From Wordnik.com. [Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought] Reference
I am not sure whether the pride of being found to outbalance, in virtue of his own personal merit, all the disadvantages of fortune, did not make as favourable an impression upon the haughty heart of the Master of Ravenswood as the conversation of the father and the beauty of Lucy Ashton. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
He had moreover to consider that if he acted as the Germans wished he would find himself opposed, not only by Denmark, but also by Russia and England, and in military operations on the narrow peninsula the power of the English fleet would easily outbalance the superiority of the Prussian army. From Wordnik.com. [Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire]
Give it time and I’m sure the positive reviews will outbalance the negative ones. From Wordnik.com. [post mortem] Reference
I think we certainly should discuss it, but we have to be very careful not to outbalance ourselves on protectionism, "he said. From Wordnik.com. [Reuters: Top News] Reference
"Suppose she writes that she loves me, and awaits happiness from me, that her love can outbalance a whole lost world, that she is ready to follow me across the sea, beyond the mocking sneers of acquaintances, and to disappear with me among the hosts of forgotten figures!. From Wordnik.com. [Debts of Honor] Reference
Envy in some men will outbalance safety. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
A power, an ill which doth outbalance being. From Wordnik.com. [From "Festus"] Reference
They will outbalance English, American, French, Dutch, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
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