In situations of doubt or dissension about the start or continuation of treatment, nurses' physical and emotional proximity to patients can provide valuable information about the burden of treatment on a patient or their family, and may provide a counterweight to over-treatment tendencies.
In an interview, Mr. Bolten dismissed descriptions of Mr. Rove as a force requiring a counterweight as inaccurate and over-simplified.
The Western kind of work on self also provides a useful counterweight to versions which over-emphasize relationality to the extent that people come to believe their only task is to uncritically and unthinkingly understand their pre-determined social role and stick to it.
This should be used sparing and only on stable, level ground because the load will not be lined up with the counterweight so the machine can tip over much easier.
He, like other Republicans, believes that Congress and the country would be much better off if Republicans had taken over as a counterweight to the president, creating a unified Congress able to reach some agreement on thorny policy issues.
Scotland would be a counterweight to London's huge, overbearing influence over the British economy.
Now, though, the Berlusconi government is promoting the idea of a new British-Italian-Spanish counterweight to Germany and France in the European Union, particularly over labor policies.
The retransmission leverage enjoyed by big programmers is perhaps the primary counterweight to the control that cable operators have over what appears on their systems.
The mayor's advertising blitz, which will saturate television screens in states including Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Arizona, represents by far the biggest escalation of Mr. Bloomberg's attempts to become a one-man counterweight to the National Rifle Association in the political clash over guns.
Real "look-at-me" items need a counterweight of boring to make them work, and this is an item of clothing that you'll wear over and over again this winter, layered-up as the temperature drops, slung over shorter lengths when spring finally comes along.
In Egypt, one of the cultural hubs of the Arab world and home to more than a quarter of its people, Tehran sees a counterweight to Saudi hostility in the high-stakes diplomacy over the future shape of Syria.
