Sentence examples for its counterweight from inspiring English sources

How is she to balance the Confucian ideal of guan — detachment — with its counterweight, ren, human-heartedness?

The tenderness with which he shaped passages such as the opening Kyrie found its counterweight in furiously dynamic allegros.

The airplane rose over Los Angeles and then headed east, the lowering sun like its counterweight, a reminder of what was being left behind, and in its place the lift and flow of what lay ahead.

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.

Thus, if something in the mechanical system failed in 5 Times Square, the cab could have been ejected skyward through its braking system by the force of its counterweight.

Then the "Safety Last" chills, done with overt realism, kick in: Cotten takes to the sloping roofs of old buildings in the market district, running along them with an intrepid indifference and clambering atop them while wrestling with a heavy extension ladder that threatens to hurl him to the ground with its counterweight.

The withdrawal of U.S. military threats to enforce access for inspectors has deprived the commission of its principal counterweight against seven years of periodic Iraqi defiance and a long political campaign by Iraq's sympathizers in the Security Council.

"Each ring has its own counterweight, which allows the piece to be in perfect balance whatever the shape it is in".

Therefore, our turbine is designed with a float at its top and a counterweight at its bottom.

The United States is eager to strengthen military ties with India, partly to make it a counterweight to China, which is flexing its muscles militarily and economically.

To many it is a breath of fresh air, the emphasis on intimacy with its authors and its operating style a counterweight to the cutbacks and 'play it safe' mentality critics say is apparent among bigger rivals.