Sentence examples for counterweights for from inspiring English sources

Iron rings were attached to them in the 1830s so they could act as counterweights for scaffolding during the maintenance of Potarch Bridge.

Other uses of depleted uranium include counterweights for aircraft control surfaces, as ballast for missile re-entry vehicles and as a shielding material.

Depleted U has low specific activity (approximately 1.47 × 10 Bq/g), but exhibits identical chemical properties as natural U. Depleted U is also widely used in many military and civilian applications such as armor and armor penetrators, counterweights for aircraft construction and irradiation shielding [ 8].

And the rippling, acidic Vivace was a good counterweight for the more lyrical opening movement.

Delegates approved his cabinet, but few saw Mr. Wardak as a serious counterweight for Marshal Fahim.

But he hopes it will act as another sizable counterweight for change.

But Joffrey's death was in some ways a counterweight for readers to the death of Robb and Catelyn.

The Liberal Democrats, always an environmentalist party, were there as a counterweight for the sceptical Tory right.

There isn't enough of a counterweight for Mississippi State's offense, and if Prescott is held in check, so too is the offense.

It included the gravity-operated funicular of Montmartre, an incline railway whose descending car, weighted down by water, served as a counterweight for its simultaneously ascending counterpart.

It is also used as a shield against radiation, as ammunition in military weaponry, as a counterweight for aircraft control surfaces, in radiotherapy and on-stream analysis of a wide range of minerals.