Sentence examples for weak counterweight from inspiring English sources

But the law is a weak counterweight to his sales prowess.

So he needs the bank's monetary policy committee, which sets interest rates, to recognise that the proper counterweight to weak growth forecasts is a further delay to the much-promised first rise in interest rates since the financial crash.

Instead, he became the midwife for a weaker Iraq that is no longer a counterweight to Iran — which actually is a nuclear threat — and that seems doomed to be run one day by another brutal strongman.

(iii) Finally, in political systems where the rule of law is weak, the role of independent lawyers and courts as a counterweight to executive or legislative policy decisions appears to be significantly limited, sometimes even inexistent.

I wonder if Putin realizes how open the U.S. would be to partnering with Russia today to bring order to the Middle East or to serve as a counterweight to China — especially when the European Union is so weak and America is so inwardly focused.

But many liberals and union members worry that if unions grow weaker, that will lead to more income inequality and less of a political counterweight to corporate America and conservative billionaires.

While Mr. Obama is eager to avoid any tensions or trade wars with China, especially with the economy weak, Asian allies are eager for the United States to raise its regional profile as a commercial and security counterweight to a rising China.

Weak, weak, weak, weak.

No sentimental melodic counterweight.

Serving as "an economic counterweight".

But there's also a counterweight.