Sentence examples for To counterweight from inspiring English sources
noun
A heavy mass of often iron or concrete, mechanically linked in opposition to a load which is to be raised and lowered, with the intent of reducing the amount of work which must be done to effect the raising and lowering. Counterweights are used, for example, in cable-hauled elevators and some kinds of movable bridges (e.g. a bascule bridge).
Downbeat performers like him are important to counterweight the grandiloquent action with sympathetic quirkiness and ordinariness.
On Monday the chancellor was encouraging the north to create a powerhouse to counterweight London.
(One touching story came from a man who was employed as a labourer to stand on a pipe to counterweight it while it was set level. For two days).
Bringing people together, for their own benefit but also to counterweight global economic forces and powerful vested interests, will not only bring material gain, it will also be educative, informative and empowering.
There had been protest hits that alluded to Vietnam (notably Barry McGuire's almost comically bleak "Eve of Destruction" in autumn 1965), but Sadler's record, in a bluff attempt to counterweight the conversation, marked the moment when the war became inescapable, and not only of interest to long-hairs and folkniks.
I'm not sure where the tough choice was -- to me, it looks as if she cashed in some loyalty tokens and traded up, multiplied her pay, cast herself as a spokeswoman for working mothers and left others to try to "counterweight" Karl, a thankless task.
Once the tonearm is balanced, use the dial next to the counterweight to set the tracking force.
Some yo-yos are tied not to fingers but to counterweights like casino dice or rubber balls.
The emerging conversation reflects a broader effort in the valley to offer counterweights to the fast-paced lifestyle.
And to create a counterweight to the military-industrial complex, Dennis introduced legislation to establish a Department of Peace.
So any move to offer a counterweight to the apparently inexhaustible hype around 'smart' devices amounts to welcome balance.
