How To Use Counterweight In A Sentence
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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
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So, in a sense, Michael Apted's new film is something of a counterweight to balance an unfavourable scale.
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The senate is the opposition's counterweight to the new president.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I'm not an advocate of external balancing, which puts a portion of the required counterweight on the flywheel and balancer.
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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.
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Instead of opposing every civic expectation of religious faith, they might join religious activists in wielding faith as a counterweight to corporate tyranny.
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These inclusions provide important counterweights to this edition's more upbeat contributions.
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Despite many people's hopes that it could be a counterweight to US power, the UN cannot act as an independent force.
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His engine did include a piston but he used a counterweight to extract it.
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As the dump pan fills, a point is reached where it over balances the counterweight and dumps into the mixing chamber.
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Maybe the only way you could even imagine tackling your Grand Enterprise was with a confidence bordering on messianic delusion counterweighted by a criticality that damned it as the utmost folly — in short, with a psyche strung tighter than the tension between God and Lucifer if they met in a Harold Pinter play.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Common sense is still marginalized as "the left," counterweighted in the media by the intensifying stridency of the highly organized and well-financed Republican right.
The Gitmo Distraction
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We Wyomings possessed one swooper completely sheathed with inertron and counterweighted with ultron.
The Airlords of Han
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In a suburban office campus, for example, people work in low, sprawling buildings and drive between them; in a city, people work in compact multistory buildings, use elevators which are inherently energy efficient since they are counterweighted, and walk to lunch.
Makeshift Metropolis
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As if that were not enough, a second trebuchet was built to a French design using a huge swinging ballast-filled basket as a counterweight.
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Larger drivers left more room on the surface of the wheel for counterweights to balance the forces; also, increased diameter meant fewer revolutions per mile.
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Do you see that as a counterweight to the discriminatory practices that you've been documenting?
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The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri - "a cold, twisted tale of love and exploitation at its heart, but Montalbano and his team arethe perfect counterweight to its darkness.
Books
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This climate should produce an a important, long-term counterweight to the problems of our economy as a whole.
Incubating Change to Immigration Law with the Startup Visa Movement
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The most common is to create a surplus of geographical information, to supersaturate a text with significant detail and places, as a kind of counterweight to the prevailing ignorance of the ascendant cultural mores and emphases.
World-Building in a Post-Geographic Age | Goblin Mercantile Exchange
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Its counterweight pulled Corwin up, just in time for his ankles to escape the snapping jaws of the sea serpent.
WATER BOOK TWO: REUNION
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Sufficient air space should always be provided around cars and elevator counterweights to minimize buffeting and airborne noise during operation.
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When the weaving was completed, the center counterweight was detached from the looped, glued end; the small individual weights were cut off, and any small amounts of unworked hair were bound together with thread.
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Most of all, the assertion of the Anglo-Iberian alliance is designed as a counterweight to the Franco-German axis.
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Israel's official response to J Street, which though it's been around for less than two years has been described as a counterweight to AIPAC, has been measured but far from welcoming.
Undefined
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The cattlemen aim to train at least 20,000 more, in the hope of building a forceful counterweight to the animal-rights advocates who denounce beef production as inhumane, and the vegetarian activists who reject beef consumption as unhealthy.
Beef Industry Carves a Course
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In other words, more necessary than a rally is a counterweight to the political extremism to which the media lends so much of a platform.
Adam Chandler: Whither Jon Stewart?
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The lamp also works on a counter balance system, not a spring system, and the balance is made possible by counterweights combined with two arms.
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I'm also not a fan of counterweighted flywheel flanges on crankshafts.
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As the ribbon begins to unspool, the spacecraft, which acts like a counterweight, is moved outward.
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And Australia affirmed its long - time security alliance with Washington - a counterweight to China's growing might.
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With the fragmentation of extended Indian families and tribes, the unwritten knowledge of elders that was once a counterweight to Anglo hegemony is in danger of being lost.
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It's almost twice as heavy as lead, so it's great for armour plating, radiation shielding, ballast in missiles and aircraft counterweights.
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The long-term centralization ofIndia, after the British left in 1947, also hurts local autonomy and growth of local political counterweights to demand better rural development.
When are India and its villages going to unite?
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Leopold is the supposed inventor of the elevator aka the counterweight pulley.
Dailycomic Diary Entry
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The new engine has a forged steal crankshaft with revised counterweights to handle the greater weight of the higher compression pistons.
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UNASUR was created in May 2008 to serve as a continental organization that Chavez has described as a counterweight to the United States.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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Now Charles, all the doors on all the houses in State open an "close an' lock an' unlock on like a kind of lever an' counterweight thing.
STONE CITY
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Some historians have argued that the Society was a welcome counterweight to the fiercely anticlerical and anti-intellectual climate fostered by the Puritans.
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The British scholar complained recently in a New York Times Op-Ed that the United States simply has too much unwonted power and needs a counterweight - a stronger Europe.
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Finally, a constitutional court would inpart replace the function of the Weimar President in acting as a counterweight to parliament.
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By the 14th century counterweighted trebuchets with slings to multiply the force with which the projectile was hurled had reached a high degree of sophistication.
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In foreign affairs, he leaned heavily in the late 1970s on the United States as a counterweight to Soviet military power.
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His no-inflation bill serves as a useful counterweight to proposals less acceptable to the Committee.
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By living life in contradiction, by embodying the contradiction, Galifianakis seems to be promoting a dialectically nuanced view of reality, which is an invaluable counterweight to the mindset of oversimplification.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Pattern Interruption Hall of Fame: Zach Galifianakis
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He's the kind of frogman wearing twenty pounds of counterweights
Hard Lovin' Loser
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The bridge was constructed so that concrete counterweights in each tower raised the span, acting much as sash weights do in an old double-hung window.
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There's a counterweight to create and a fulcrum to position to solve it.
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Rather than using the rise of China as a strategic counterweight to American primacy," concluded a report by Australia's Lowy Institute for International Policy this year, "most countries in Asia seem to be quietly bandwagoning with the United States to balance against China's future power potential.
Concerned about China's rise, Southeast Asian nations build up militaries
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Some Europeans, particularly the French, dream of a united Europe being a counterweight to U.S. power.
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The Corinthians, not the Spartans, felt most threatened by Athenian alliances and expansion during the late 460s and 450s, for they removed all northern counterweights to Athenian power.
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The meeting was also attended by David Haslam (Chair, National Obesity Forum) and Paula Regan from the UK, who shared their experience with the CounterWeight program, which has researched clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness of obesity interventions in primary care.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Prime Time for Primary Care?
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Now Charles, all the doors on all the houses in State open an "close an' lock an' unlock on like a kind of lever an' counterweight thing.
STONE CITY
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Her words were like the lightest flick of a knife to Lupe, counterweighted by the sensation her smile sent through him.
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For me, playing the counterweight has been a dynamic experience.?
Up Close with “The Closer” Star Robert Gossett
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As if that were not enough, a second trebuchet was built to a French design using a huge swinging ballast-filled basket as a counterweight.
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As David Owen points out in his forthcoming Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability, in the office campus, people work in sprawling buildings and drive between them; in the high-rise, people work in a compact building, use elevators (which are inherently energy-efficient, since they are counterweighted), and walk to lunch.
The Green Case for Cities
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The 6200 had even deeper fins with twin dynamic counterweights that went to 2500 rpm and 1200-horsepower.
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It's almost twice as heavy as lead, so it's great for armour plating, radiation shielding, ballast in missiles and aircraft counterweights.
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ZHS-Zero House Swing - Sometimes incorrectly called zero tail swing, this means that the house and counterweights stay within the machine's width during slewing.
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Applying this principle to crankshafts, if the counterweights aren't in the right place, the balancing job is much more difficult and ultimately requires more weight to achieve a balanced state.
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Bahrain holds particular importance to Washington as the host of U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, the main American counterweight to Iran's efforts to expand its military influence into the Gulf.
Daughter of jailed Bahraini goes on hunger strike
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A three-cylinder, kerosene-fueled engine in the lift house that crowned the center span of the bridge slowed the descent of the counterweights to control the lift span's speed.
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What might be a counterweight to adverse developments on the external front?
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By using counterweights and wheels for lifting he made it possible for a single ox to raise a load so heavy that previously it would hardly have been possible for six pairs of oxen to move it.
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Byrd held on to his vision of the Senate as a place that should be subject to veto by a minority, as a counterweight to populist majoritarianism.
Carl Pope: Farewell to an Unlikely Hero
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The Plague offers a salutary counterweight to such utopian longings and millenarian consolations.
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The comedy is, however, pusillanimously counterweighted with a solemn and Oprah-ish subtext that these are way important issues.
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Prior to World War II, the sash (the parts that move) was counterweighted by a temperamental arrangement of cords, pulleys and iron weights.
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They were fitted with a dial gauge, a vent port in the form of a petcock or counterweight, and a safety fuse.
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Not a new Warsaw Pact, but some kind of counterweight to the hegemony of the U. S.Why do you think NATO is bombing you?
A Milosevic In Moscow
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In reply, Van Auken explained that the Soviet Stalinist regime had proven a false counterweight to imperialism.
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Without a general manager in charge of personnel, the head coach doesn't have a counterweight to balance his urge to win now.
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A production V - 8 crankshaft typically has six counterweights positioned at the front and rear of the crank.
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The number of pounds per dump is adjusted by correctly setting the counterweight up or down on the counterweight arm.
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In 1993 a lead counterweight of about 660 tons was placed on the north side of the tower's base in order to stop the southward rotation.
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More necessary than a rally is a counterweight to the political extremism so commonly lent a media platform.
Adam Chandler: Whither Jon Stewart?
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The fourth proposition, that the Canadian system lacks the formal counterweights necessary to check prime ministerial power, is more difficult to tackle.
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They are now faced with redefining the Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis as a counterweight to the US.
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Not uncritical of a world of commercial relations, many are also critical of a climate of naked economism that reigns in their homeland, stressing the role of religion as a counterweight.
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His no-inflation bill serves as a useful counterweight to proposals less acceptable to the Committee.
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Its counterweight pulled Corwin up, just in time for his ankles to escape the snapping jaws of the sea serpent.
WATER BOOK TWO: REUNION
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I just had to do it – I hope it didn't come across as misogynistic or gratuitous … I do think it's counterweighted by the fact that I'm in love now.
Carl Barât: The interview
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Tractors equipped with front-end counterweights also have improved traction and stability.
