But Japan remains the single largest counterweight to China, which continues to challenge the current Pax Americana in the Pacific.
In these aforementioned cases, the gubernatorial candidates presented themselves as the only counterweight to a single party holding a monopoly on the levers of power.
You can use a single heavy item as the counterweight or a number of smaller items, contained in a bag or bucket.
The theoretical analysis of a linearized model of a manipulator with a single rotational joint (a direct driven pendulum) with a counterweight is provided.
There, he nearly single-handedly gave the channel an identity as a liberal counterweight to Fox News - just as Current hoped he would do for it - but he also alienated staff members.
The single currency was conceived as a force against history's cruel lessons, a financial counterweight to distinctions and divisions that placed narrow identity and self-interest ahead of the broader European vision.
As the Male Chorus in Britten's "Rape of Lucretia," Mr. Vickers could combine blistering outrage and fathomless compassion within the space of a single phrase, raising the part of an onlooker and commentator to the stature of counterweight to the ravished heroine: indeed, her dramatic equal.
Only this week, Denmark's finance minister, Marianne Jelved, grumbled that the French plan for a greater political counterweight to the ECB was likely to put off voters in Denmark's referendum on the single currency (see article).
By uniting 300 million Europeans under a common currency, with a single monetary policy and tightly coordinated fiscal policies, the architects of the new Europe believed they could create a counterweight to American economic might -- a stable, thriving bloc stretching from Dublin to Athens.
No sentimental melodic counterweight.
