Sentence examples for of a counterweight from inspiring English sources

Mr. Leonsis acknowledged that he presented something of a counterweight to Mr. Ripp.

Taking advantage of Russia's weakening and the lack of a counterweight, they claimed monopoly leadership and domination in the world".

Most modern elevators are propelled by electric motors, with the aid of a counterweight, through a system of cables and sheaves (pulleys).

While the new focus has rattled allies in Europe, the emergence of a counterweight to a rising China has been greeted with enthusiasm in Asia.

That is a sentence in which the word "technically" has very little effective meaning; "but we don't" is just not that much of a counterweight.

Ayatollah Taleghani, whose sudden death deprived the revolution of a counterweight to Khomeini's power, was to many Iranians the conscience and soul of the revolution.

Vehicles would climb out of the gravity well along a cable anchored to the equator and held under tension by centrifugal force on a counterweight tens of thousands of kilometers high.

If your trebuchet is small enough, you can launch the projectile by sharply pulling down on the short end of the swing arm instead of using a counterweight.

But a group of ad tech startups is in the process of creating a counterweight to all the consolidation by establishing a consortium for sharing data and agreeing on standard ways to interoperate.

Mr. Rubio's one-man media blitz on Sunday was a striking show of confidence for a lawmaker who only weeks ago had been a voice of caution, a counterweight to the optimism being expressed by others in the group.

And she would reinforce progressive Democrats on the panel — including Senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Jack Reed of Rhode Island — as a counterweight to Democrats whose states are bastions of the banking industry.