After starting on a strong note, the day turned into a bit of a fizzer by the close with positive moves from a number of resource stocks counterbalanced by negative movement from some of the big banks, and (insurer) IAG and (property developer) Westfield Group weighing on the market.
Quotes about counterbalanced (4 Quotes)
If we are viewed as a country that engages in torture ... any possible information we might be able to gain is far counterbalanced by (the negative) effect of public opinion, ... Face the Nation.
I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.
If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations--such as the ones we found--are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. It just happens that we looked at two genes for which the variants favored by selection have a higher frequency in some populations, such as Europeans. It might be that for the next two brain size genes we find, the variants favored by selection will have a higher frequency in Asians or Africans.