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.
Indeed, this is one key counterweight to the downward trend in organized labor's influence".
One adjustable counterweight mass is also installed underneath the seesaw to serve as a passive damping mechanism to absorb impact and shock energy.
The mayor's advertising blitz, which will saturate television screens in states including Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Arizona, represents by far the biggest escalation of Mr. Bloomberg's attempts to become a one-man counterweight to the National Rifle Association in the political clash over guns.
Empathy acts as a counterweight, one that trains us to take into account the concerns of all people, not only those whose lives most interest us or, for that matter, appear most like our own.
On one hand, Iraq wants a cordial relationship with Turkey, a powerhouse in the region and a counterweight to the competing pulls of Iran and Saudi Arabia.
The forces on the counterweight are shown in Fig. 4.
The victory on Tuesday night of a Bloomberg-backed candidate for Congress in Illinois suggests that his fledgling attempt to become a one-man political counterweight to the powerful National Rifle Association is gaining traction.
My sister Chris, a fellow writer, was the perfect helpmeet, his counterweight, the one person he trusted to keep him honest and on track.
That said, "Gloria" is on its own terms a good show, and an apt counterweight to the one on Long Island.
