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English translation: opposing/countervailing force

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Spanish term or phrase:	organización de contrapeso
English translation:	opposing/countervailing force
Entered by:	Claudia Luque Bedregal

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01:41 Oct 23, 2011

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Other / mapeo de actores

Spanish term or phrase: organización de contrapeso

Contexto: Informe del mapeo de actores para identificar a los principales actores sociales y políticos dentro de las redes sociales, económicas y políticas de la zona de estudio donde se va a realizar el proyecto de exploración y explotación de hidrocarburos.

"La organización fue formada para difundir información sobre las actividades de hidrocarburos y convertirse en una organización de contrapeso a las organizaciones que se oponen al desarrollo de la actividad."

How can I render the idea of "organización de contrapeso" in English?
Thank you for your help.

Claudia Luque Bedregal KudoZ activity Questions: 1040 (2 open) (22 closed without grading) Answers: 990 Peru
Local time: 21:46

opposing/countervailing force

Explanation:
no need to put in 'organization'

Selected response from:

bigedsenior
Local time: 19:46

Grading comment

This fits perfectly, thank you bigedsenior.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +3

and become an organization counter-weight to...

Silvina P.

opposing/countervailing force

bigedsenior

to counterweight

BdiL

and counterbalance/go up against

David Hollywood

countervailing organization

xxxtabularasa

organizational counterweight

andres-larsen

Answers

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

and become an organization counter-weight to...

Explanation:
http://indrus.in/articles/2010/09/13/russian_chinese_securit...

Silvina P.
Argentina
Local time: 23:46
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish

Notes to answerer

Asker: Gracias Silvina.

21 mins confidence:

organizational counterweight

Explanation:
organizational counterweight

fuentes:

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance Facts, information, pictures ...
www.encyclopedia.com › ... › International Organizations
COMECON served as an ***organizational counterweight*** first to the Marshall Plan and then to the European Iron and Steel Community and its successor, the ...

Lessons Learned from Prior Attempts at National Security Reform ...
www.wm.edu/as/publicpolicy/documents/prs/nsr.pdf
PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
19 Jul 2011 – as the OCB became the ***organizational counterweight*** to the NSC Planning Board . No report. 34 Lay and Johnson, 26. 35 Ibid., 26; Nelson, 318 ...

Back - Political Language
ilyagerner.tumblr.com/post/5665458805/unionsmatter
20 May 2011 – Unions, for all their many many faults, represent the only ***organizational counterweight*** to the power of those at the top. They have dedicated ...

Handbook of industrial engineering: technology and operations ... -
books.google.com/books?isbn=0471330574...
Gavriel Salvendy - 2001 - Technology & Engineering - 2796 pages
She is a stickler for detail and provides the ***organizational counterweight*** to Kelleher's sometimes chaotic style (Conger and Kanungo 1998). Thus, according to ...

WHEN AGENTS BECOME STEWARDS: INTRODUCING LEARNING ...
www.iese.edu/en/files/6_40618.pdf
PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
***organizational counterweight*** to economic theories of management. The third section explains why Stewardship Theory suffers from being static, and underpins ...

Sovereignty, the nation state, and Islam*
www.ethical-perspectives.be/viewpic.php?LAN=E&TABLE...
PDF/Adobe Acrobat
G Steunebrink - 2008
the Church was also an ***organizational counterweight*** to the emperor, so much so that after the investiture controversy the concept of 'Christian emperor' no ...

andres-larsen
Venezuela
Local time: 22:16
Native speaker of:

English

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks Andres.

1 hr confidence:

and counterbalance/go up against

Explanation:
couple of ideas

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Note added at 1 hr (2011-10-23 03:13:22 GMT)
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given that there is a need to do something to defend the position I think "go up against" gets the tone

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-10-23 03:42:29 GMT)
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counteract

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-10-23 03:43:27 GMT)
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took me a while but this is the term IMO

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-10-23 04:04:11 GMT)
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as you have "organization" at the beginning of the sentence I think it's stylistically advisable to avoid repetition

David Hollywood
Local time: 23:46
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 131

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks David!

2 hrs confidence:

countervailing organization

Explanation:
As in

The TACD is a belated attempt to create a countervailing organization to the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue (TABD), http://www.tabd.org, which has been around a while and which is quite well organized.
http://lists.essential.org/random-bits/msg00072.html

xxxtabularasa
Native speaker of:

English

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks Leanne

1 day7 hrs confidence:

to counterweight

Explanation:
I would plainly translate it with a verb, thus: "...y convertirse en una organización de contrapeso a las..." --> "and to counterweight the organizations...".

Ciao. M.

BdiL
Local time: 04:46
Native speaker of:

Italian

Notes to answerer

Asker: Grazie Maurizio.

1 day20 hrs confidence:

opposing/countervailing force

Explanation:
no need to put in 'organization'

bigedsenior
Local time: 19:46
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 203

Grading comment

This fits perfectly, thank you bigedsenior.

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks BigEd.

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