Sentence examples for counterweight from inspiring English sources

Sir Menzies Campbell, the former UK party leader, said detailed discussions were under way inside the party on giving significant new powers over England-only policies to English MPs, as a counterweight to growing devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

He'd been going a good 20 minutes before he began to make the argument that an independent Scotland would help rebalance the rest of the UK by creating "an economic counterweight to London and the South East, changing the economic centre of gravity of these islands".

The example of the US should serve as a counterweight to those who argue that new entrants will always lead to innovation.

"We will feel free to go and look for a counterweight".

In fact, as well as being admirably effective in two of the three top ministerial jobs, Straw has shown himself bravely willing to speak out (see Iran) when he thought it necessary to be a counterweight to Tony Blair's manic support for anything that President Bush might do.

Most important of all, monetary policy can act as a counterweight to fiscal policy.

As for the FEC, it is too stuck in partisan gridlock to tighten its own rules.Many Republicans resist reform in part because they see super PACs as a possible counterweight to Mr Obama's overwhelming fund-raising advantage in 2008.

Ethiopia's late prime minister, Meles Zenawi, who died in 2012, was an effective counterweight to the erratic Mr Museveni but Mr Hailemariam may be less able to restrain him.

"Without a counterweight, there is a danger of a unilateralist temptation, a risk of hegemony," he said last week.

In Syria, after (very belatedly) moving to ramp up the arming and training of a moderate opposition, Mr Obama calls such rebels the "best counterweight" both to IS and to the Assad regime.On the other hand, as he seeks to rally public opinion, Mr Obama and his officials have made their mission sound overwhelmingly like a counter-terrorist operation.

When the deal was announced last July the pair promised to create a counterweight in digital advertising to Google and Facebook.