(1) conservatives saw the family as a counterweight to the power of the state(2) So, in a sense, Michael Apted's new film is something of a counterweight to balance an unfavourable scale.(3) As if that were not enough, a second trebuchet was built to a French design using a huge swinging ballast-filled basket as a counterweight .(4) As the dump pan fills, a point is reached where it over balances the counterweight and dumps into the mixing chamber.(5) Without a general manager in charge of personnel, the head coach doesn't have a counterweight to balance his urge to win now.(6) His engine did include a piston but he used a counterweight to extract it.(7) Despite many people's hopes that it could be a counterweight to US power, the UN cannot act as an independent force.(8) Some Europeans, particularly the French, dream of a united Europe being a counterweight to U.S. power.(9) Tractors equipped with front-end counterweights also have improved traction and stability.(10) A production V - 8 crankshaft typically has six counterweights positioned at the front and rear of the crank.(11) The 6200 had even deeper fins with twin dynamic counterweights that went to 2500 rpm and 1200-horsepower.(12) A three-cylinder, kerosene-fueled engine in the lift house that crowned the center span of the bridge slowed the descent of the counterweights to control the lift span's speed.(13) The fourth proposition, that the Canadian system lacks the formal counterweights necessary to check prime ministerial power, is more difficult to tackle.(14) Applying this principle to crankshafts, if the counterweights aren't in the right place, the balancing job is much more difficult and ultimately requires more weight to achieve a balanced state.(15) By using counterweights and wheels for lifting he made it possible for a single ox to raise a load so heavy that previously it would hardly have been possible for six pairs of oxen to move it.(16) The Corinthians, not the Spartans, felt most threatened by Athenian alliances and expansion during the late 460s and 450s, for they removed all northern counterweights to Athenian power.
