Nearby sat their counterweights, toaster-sized lead boxes.
When Trump said, "From ocean to ocean," a supporter behind me interjected, "From snowflake to snowflake!" After the inauguration, Trump supporters met their counterweights, and watching it felt like watching a pair of planets collide in space.
And in fact, their growing nationalism is a counterweight, in their minds, to the other strains they are feeling as their worlds are changed" by borderless competition.
Business leaders and their allies in Congress (and the religious right) understand that a resuscitated labor movement would be an effective counterweight to their political influence.
Arctic Monkeys, it seems, are keen to telegraph their old Sheffield dialling code, as a counterweight, perhaps, to their newest music, of which the band debut eight tracks.
Their idea was to treat Berkshire like a value-oriented mutual fund and use it, along with utility stocks, as a counterweight to their technology stocks.
But the ribald comedy of Mr. Sharpe's books was merely a counterweight to their essential darkness, which seemed rooted in an English childhood steeped in fascism and a South African young adulthood amid the brutalities of apartheid.
They know the difference between the mirage and the oasis, and they know that as long as Saddam is posing no immediate military threat to them, his army is still a useful counterweight to their more dangerous historic enemy -- Iran.
Mr. Jacobs said that Ms. Bachmann was establishing "the presence of the Tea Party Caucus as a kingmaker," and that if she used it strategically and carefully chose a few key battles, "they can be as powerful and maybe more powerful than the Blue Dogs," the now-depleted group of moderate and conservative Democrats who served as a counterweight to their party's liberal wing.
Their turrets lacked counterweights, and the main belt armor was placed too low to be effective under most conditions.
