Sentence examples for counterweight by from inspiring English sources

Practically all are electrically propelled, either by cables, sheave and counterweight, by a winding-drum mechanism (still used in many low-rise freight elevators), or by an electro-hydraulic combination.

By the early nineteen-sixties, Sukarno was worried about the military, which had been developing close links with the Pentagon, and he sought to establish a counterweight by strengthening the Partai Komunis Indonesia, at that time the largest Communist party outside the Soviet Union and China.

You can get a fair sense of the perils of an elevator shaft by watching an elevator rush up and down one, its counterweight flying by, like the blade on a guillotine.

The music was standard Radio 2 guilty pleasures, but with a contemporary counterweight provided by a live session from La Roux.

But many Cypriots still view Russia as a useful counterweight to bullying by Brussels.

Smaller banks lobbied to keep the Fed's 12 regional reserve banks as their regulator, making a populist case that the arrangement was a counterweight to dominance by Washington and New York.

The talk about the Guggenheim also serves as a convenient counterweight to complaints by some local residents and elected officials that the stadium will repel development and is undeserving of $600 million in public subsidies.

And Mr. Gallant, who once served as that committee's director, went on to run the Republican Majority Issues Committee, a group widely considered close to Mr. DeLay, whose allies once hoped that the issues committee would serve as a counterweight to unions by financing get-out-the-vote efforts for conservative candidates.

White was standing on a ladder at the bottom of one of the elevator shafts an hour after sunrise Tuesday when he was hit by a counterweight and killed, according to a preliminary report by Cal-OSHA, the state's workplace safety watchdog.

Chinese society, burdened by a corrupt government unchecked by any counterweight, even the simple power of information, must fend for itself.

It was operated by a counterweight and winch.