What the doctrine of precedent is seeking to achieve, then, is a subtle counterpoise to the erosion of consensus.
For example, power can be counterpoised rather than ranked.
I can only mention a few of his cases, and refer readers to literature that will provide some counterpoise.
The ambiguous figure of the 'gangsta' with his darker socio-historical dimensions is powerfully counterpoised by the metaphor of ecstatic, eroticised danced religion.
The book's eclectic combination of chapters cleverly counterpoises historical research into child labour in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with essays discussing recent sociological and psychological insights.
I was suggesting that these two things are in no way counterpoises the one to the other.
This special parsimony, with its cumulative results, needs a special counterpoise.
That would seem to me to point to a particular solution, not that the two are head-on counterpoised.
