counterweight

There is the fact that in many of these states Democratic legislatures are entrenched, and voters are looking for a counterweight.

Historically, the former Soviet Union has been a counterweight to the United States.

The CPR was supposed to be the progressive counterweight among the troika of parties that governed Tunisia before Sheratongate.

This would leave the Afghan Taliban intact as a counterweight to Indian influence in Afghanistan.

We at The Daily Beast seek to provide a counterweight to all this sanctimony.

The counterweight may be tied up, thereby opening the damper.

The counterweight may hence be lessened at pleasure, if the height of the pressing water-column n be increased.

Without this counterweight, how false would be our final summation of the evidence upon most of the great state trials!

But Ballantrae was afraid of a more efficient captain, who might be a counterweight to himself, and he opposed this stoutly.

The operation of any of these governors is usually controlled by the tension of a spring, or by a counterweight.