Sentence examples for counterweight from from inspiring English sources

But the report made it clear that its assessment was based on the Murdochs being a minority shareholder, with a counterweight from "other directors or shareholders" and that James Murdoch was no longer chairman of Sky.

Yet with so much emphasis on Seagal's martial value to Putin and his satellites these days, is it not time we heard the counterweight from his friends at the top of Buddhism?

There could be some merit to that analysis, but there seems to me an equal if not greater counterweight from the many people who feel offended and even threatened by the Republican nominee.

Distance of counterweight from long end of crank (in).

After the turntable broke, the top part of the crane, including the cab, boom and counterweight, separated from the crane's steel tower and smashed into an apartment building across the street before falling to the ground.

They also provide a counterweight to observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, who denounce the same elections.

Whatever you decide you want to launch with your trebuchet, your counterweight should be from 100 to 133 times the weight of your projectile.[3] If you want to launch items of various weights, you can set up your trebuchet with a bucket or bag to hold and adjust the counterweight.

And each issue of The Counterweight carries supportive letters from students who are not in the club.

The IEO's report suggests involving the board more meaningfully, in order to provide a counterweight to political pressure from regional stakeholders, but this merely threatens to substitute one form of political influence for another.

A 12-metre armature hidden inside the structure is connected to the ground through an innocuous market cart, in which a 6-tonne counterweight stops it all from toppling over.

The tiny band of academic dissenters, such as the ultra-Thatcherite Patrick Minford, enjoy entirely disproportionate prominence as they are wheeled out for "balance" in much the same way that the broadcasters used to regard it as necessary to find a climate change denier counterweight to every scientist from the mainstream.