Sentence examples for counterweight at from inspiring English sources

As Mishra stated: "India is a counterweight, at least in the fantasies of western strategists, to China".

But "House of Meetings" is primarily, obsessively, occupied with the gulag and lacks a counterweight, at the expense of the usual teeter-tottering Amis brio.

In this formidable weapon, the long end of an arm on a pivot was hauled or winched down and then released, allowing a heavy counterweight at the short opposite end of the arm to drop and swing the long end upward through a vertical arc.

Therefore, our turbine is designed with a float at its top and a counterweight at its bottom.

The steadicam has a three-axis gimble, with a counterweight at the bottom, and is made from bits of PVC pipe, a skateboard bearing, some washers, some aluminium bars, a phone cup holder thingy, and a Nerf gun handle.

The 200-pound counterweights at Bonavista that propelled the rotating reflectors took 15 minutes to rewind -- a job performed every two hours throughout the dark nights.

Unmoored and unbalanced, the spindly structure teetered and fell, the heavy cab and counterweights at the top pulling it down onto the buildings to the south.

In 1938, the county Board of Freeholders approved a plan to incorporate the use of a steel bascule, a French design that uses rolling counterweights at one end to cause the other end to pivot.

Destroy the two counterweights at the sides of the gate with a rocket launcher and proceed inside the building.

Around 9 30 a.m., the crane, at 157 West 57th Street, between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue, was being used to hoist a concrete counterweight labeled at 13,500 pounds when it stopped working properly, leaving the load hanging about 30 stories above the street for several hours.

Lever arm of counterweights when at the outmost position on the crank (in).