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the counterweight

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A heavy mass of often iron or concrete, mechanically linked in opposition to a load which is to be raised and lowered, with the intent of reducing the amount of work which must be done to effect the raising and lowering. Counterweights are used, for example, in cable-hauled elevators and some kinds of movable bridges (e.g. a bascule bridge).

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His body acted as the counterweight.

I'm just the counterweight to the happiness".

(Mr. Basel actually called his paper The Counterweight).

Mr. Bowen is the counterweight, a few decades of life lessons behind.

You can see it in Charles Mitchell's editorship of The Counterweight.

"The counterweight that the EU can be counts for almost nothing," Pierini says.

"I said, 'No way".' Leaving the counterweight as a boulder above ground would be dangerous.

Last fall, Mitchell and the Counterweight staff published a "free speech" issue of their newspaper.

Some campus liberals called for The Counterweight to lose its school financing.

The feeling was loose but hardly ever vague because of the counterweight of his band mates.

"It's setting out to be the counterweight to the very earnest nature of the pre-general election period.

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