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coun·ter·pose

(koun′tər-pōz′)
tr.v. coun·ter·posed, coun·ter·pos·ing, coun·ter·pos·es
To set in contrast, opposition, or balance.
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counterpose

(ˈkaʊntəˌpəʊz)
vb (tr)
to place (something) in opposition to
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Verb 1. counterpose - constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to
counterbalance, oppose - contrast with equal weight or force
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I am not sure why Benjamin Franklin counterposed assassination to impeachment; perhaps it was because in his day it was normal to remove the head of the king rather than the king from his throne -- Charles I of England was beheaded for high treason in 1649 and Louise VI and his wife Marie Antionette were sent to the guillotine during the French Revolution in 1793.
In this respect, opinion polls reveal a curious fact: the positive perception of direct SUS users is counterposed by major rejection among those who stated they had never used the system (1).
So often the dilemma of white working people gets counterposed against black people or immigrants.
Sentimental representations of the "Irish mother" or the "Mother Machree" are drawn from songs and poetry and counterposed to the hard work and the drudgery that was the lot of most rural women.
They were generally counterposed within their enclosures by clusters of animated readymades--e.g., a humidifier blowing steam up a leaf blower's trunk.
Ehab Youssef made the challenge in a 2-1/2 minute video posted on YouTube this week; it also comes after pro-opposition media outlets recently publicized photographs of Assad and his family enjoying the snowy weather in Damascus, counterposed with photographs of Syrians suffering from the harsh weather in refugee camps.
While this general distinction sounds familiar, the above formulation allows the actual objects to be explained to shift from social phenomena to technology, making it difficult to appreciate these statements as counterposed explanations.
This approach is counterposed to (indeed in most colonial adventures seeks to destroy) Indigenous relationships to the Land.
Clearly, the Latin American 'left turn' has not spawned a singular 'model' of social and economic development that could be counterposed to that of neoliberalism.
Attempting to rescue the term from the mere connotation of "common person," she discusses seikatsusha as a key concept of the life-culture (seikatsu bunka theories of Kiyoshi Miki and Itaru Nii in the 1930s and 1940s and how it differed from the concept of kokumin (nationals) or rodosha (workers); the further refinements of life-culture theory by Wajiro-Kon in the 1950s; the deployment of the word in the mass media of the 1960s, in which the concept began to be counterposed to that of the "consumer" and the "masses;" and understandings of seikatsusha in the new social movements of the late 1960s and 1970s and how it contrasted to the concept of "citizen." Distributed in the US by ISBS.
It is also paradigmatically opposed to the public, beautiful and orderly discourse associated with the oratory of the Council of Elders, and likewise counterposed to the morally neutral conversations (sauttala) that men engage for leisure.
In Quebec, "interculturalism"--the pursuit of a common French-speaking civic culture rooted in the values of freedom, liberty, and human rights--is counterposed to Canadian multiculturalism, which is considered "language-blind" (4), as treating all cultures as equals and therefore denigrating Quebec's distinctive collective personality.

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