Sentence examples for main counterweight from inspiring English sources
His supporters are hoping to capitalize on the loss of his main counterweight to widen his appeal.
Germany has served as the main counterweight to economic malaise elsewhere in the euro zone, and a prolonged slowdown could delay a recovery on the whole Continent.
For eight years, Mr. Silver has been the main counterweight to a Republican governor and a Republican Senate majority, the strongest liberal voice in Albany's ruling triumvirate, a guardian of school spending and programs for the poor.
House Majority PAC HMPP) has close ties to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif). and is the Democrats' main counterweight to Republican super PAC spending led by the Congressional Leadership Fund, Americans for Prosperity, Club for Growth Action and other independent GOP organs.
The ability of Iran to make life miserable for the American occupation is the main counterweight to a tougher stance on Iran's nuclear program, and that is the direct consequence of a war for which Clinton and McCain both voted.
Weight of a master counterweight (lb).
Number of master counterweights on crank.
The area encompassing Kyoto, Kobe and Osaka, three of Japan's greatest cities, is the nation's second-largest economic block, and the main cultural and economic counterweight to Tokyo.
The obsolete battleship received several upgrades: new Babcock & Wilcox boilers, counterweights to balance her main turrets and electric traversing mechanisms for her turrets.
Massachusetts now received the same upgrades, including twelve 3 /50 caliber gun single-purpose guns to replace the 6-inch and most of the lighter guns, new Babcock & Wilcox boilers, counterweights to balance her main turrets, a lattice mast and electric traversing mechanisms for her turrets.
He became one of the Royal Shakespeare Company's most notable beneficiaries of a "good new plays in smaller venues" policy of the 1980s, a contemporary counterweight to the main business of Shakespeare on the big stage.
