counterweight

How To Use counterweight In A Sentence

• When a suitable counterweight is added at one end so that the reaction on one fulcrum is zero, the block can be spun asymmetrically 180 degrees about the other, giving a horizontal displacement (here's the basic physics). Archive 2004-07-01
• So, in a sense, Michael Apted's new film is something of a counterweight to balance an unfavourable scale.
• The senate is the opposition's counterweight to the new president.
• Israel's official response to J Street, which though less than two years old has been described as a counterweight to AIPAC, has gone from chill to cold-shoulder. Bradley Burston: Dovish Jews? They Love Israel? Excommunicate Them
• They are counterweighted by moments of ache (Wayne's abuse, Margene's break-down at her old job), humor (Nicki's catty asides), and tenderness. Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 1
• Directly above his head and within reach was a circular manhole, counterweighted and operated by a handwheel set in its center. The Past Through Tomorrow
• As a counterweight to the violent legacy of forced closeting, today's LGBT culture is all about distinctive recognition. Mira Sucharov: Judaic Change And Recognizing Gay Difference
• I'm not an advocate of external balancing, which puts a portion of the required counterweight on the flywheel and balancer.
• Thus, the army appeared at the time to be not merely a strong bulwark, not merely a political counterweight to the mass populism of the Hitler movement.
• Instead of opposing every civic expectation of religious faith, they might join religious activists in wielding faith as a counterweight to corporate tyranny.