Sentence examples for friendly counterweight from inspiring English sources

Europe moved steadily toward economic and then political integration, toward a sense of itself as a friendly counterweight to American power and as an alternative political model, a prototype of supranational demilitarized democracy.

The agreement, in the view of its authors, will redefine relations between two countries often at odds during the cold war and build up India as a friendly counterweight to a rising China.

The world's peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed?

A staunchly anti-communist Indonesia was considered by the United States to be an essential counterweight, and friendly relations with the Indonesian government were considered more important than a decolonization process in East Timor.

America's interest has always been less in such a pact than in a strong, friendly India that is a counterweight to China.

In other words, Hezbollah knows the costs of its actions but cannot afford to lose Assad: It needs his friendly regime to keep receiving weapons from Iran and act as a counterweight to the powerful Sunni Gulf states.

(A moment of silence for the discontinued Honda Element and its dog-friendly concept, shown here in 2009, would have been a welcome counterweight to the understandable product bias. But the courtesy was not extended).

No sentimental melodic counterweight.

Serving as "an economic counterweight".

Twelve-counterweight configurations with a zero degree counterweight angle and eight-counterweight configurations with 30° counterweight angle, each for 0%, 50% and 100% counterweight balancing rates, are considered.

That's the counterweight argument.