Sentence examples for makeweight from inspiring English sources

The idea, hitherto untested on voters, is to show that the Lib Dems are less a makeweight, in the event that the bigger parties fail to get a majority, than an improving influence on them both with the power to offset Tory austerity with care for the needy and Labour profligacy with a tight fiscal grip.

A cash-plus-player deal had also been mooted in Spurs' pursuit of Parker but Redknapp today revealed youngster Jake Livermore would not be a makeweight in any remaining negotiations.

His decision not to allow those players who take a club wage overseas to wear the red rose, for example; a cause which could cost him dear tonight when he is forced to employ an openside makeweight, Chris Robshaw, when Steffon Armitage of Toulon was born for the role.

Matic was loaned out to Vitesse Arnhem in the Netherlands, then used as a makeweight in the deal to bring David Luiz from Benfica, along with £20m.

Any attempt by Real Madrid to include Luka Modric as a makeweight in the deal to sign Gareth Bale will be rejected by Tottenham.

The Serbia midfielder left the Blues in 2011 as a makeweight in the deal that brought Brazilian David Luiz to Stamford Bridge.

The Wombats UK indie at its most ordinary: bouncy, perky, eager to please, and utterly disposable – a makeweight in the Glastonbury bill.

They lost to Switzerland, a team whose greatest strength was their willingness to mass behind the ball, and were not always convincing in a series of one-goal victories broken only by the 2-0 success over the brave but essentially makeweight Hondurans.

These two sides last met in the FA Cup was precisely 21 years ago, in  a match that is remembered for Eric Cantona's fabulous 30-yard chip and the fact that it was the day Manchester United signed Andy Cole – before the tie Alex Ferguson had taken Keith Gillespie into the toilets at Bramall Lane to tell him that he would be the makeweight in the deal.

Plus, there were makeweights I'd never use.

It was a champagne moment for the one-time makeweights turned heavyweights of the English county game.