The phrase "a counterweight for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that balances or offsets another thing, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The new policy serves as a counterweight for the previous regulations that were too lenient."
Alternatives: "a balance to" or "an offset for".
But Joffrey's death was in some ways a counterweight for readers to the death of Robb and Catelyn.
It included the gravity-operated funicular of Montmartre, an incline railway whose descending car, weighted down by water, served as a counterweight for its simultaneously ascending counterpart.
Whether the SCO evolves into a counterweight for NATO or the EU has yet to be determined.
It is also used as a shield against radiation, as ammunition in military weaponry, as a counterweight for aircraft control surfaces, in radiotherapy and on-stream analysis of a wide range of minerals.
But what I feel I may be able to accomplish in this space is to provide a counterweight for some of the subtly biased reporting on the Israeli actions in Gaza over the last three days.
For females, the fleeing from home, however sorrowful, comes with a counterweight of liberation.
Delegates approved his cabinet, but few saw Mr. Wardak as a serious counterweight for Marshal Fahim.
Not only does this conceit offer a clever counterweight for this production's comic-tragic hemispheres, but it reveals another vital polarity that imbues the melodrama of Pagliacci: innocence versus corruption.
Neither Jennings Charliee (with his distractingly slow and neutral manner of speech) nor Huff's one-note Neyla provide an effective counterweight for Julia's titanic energy.
In the 1990s it adamantly opposed a French scheme for an "economic government" as a counterweight to the European Central Bank, for fear of compromising the ECB's independence.
For years, liberals have longed for a counterweight to Justice Scalia.
