Usa "counterweight" in una frase

1. Far below a pack of slug-mules pulled the counterweight bucket, occasionally pausing so they could rest or to allow workers to refill the bucket with water in order to maintain its level; just enough so it was slightly under the weight of the giant red stone, but not too much, else it accelerate to the ground at an uncontrollable rate

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2. As the giant rectangle of red stone reached the apex of the pulley, a team of workers roped it in, guided it to its destination, then signaled to the ground below where the counterweight bucket was uncorked and the slug mules untethered, allowing the stone to settle into its final resting place

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3. Some emotion had to be a counterweight to his thrall over me

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4. She wants for itself the leadership of Europe and the right to serve as a counterweight to the influence of the United States in the international theater

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5. “It has to be a counterweight!” he said

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6. “We’ll have to cut that cable,” said Andre, hauling up the counterweight for good measure

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7. military and political power and influence to act as the counterweight and theatrical opponent

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8. I belonged to the half that have and felt that was enough to do as I pleased, my philosophy a crutch and a counterweight to desire, insensitive to the scales as they tipped with time, ideals ripped up by the facts of life

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9. The reason is not found in a calculation of consequences in the external world, nor in any supposed counterweight of pain or terror in a finite being, that must be placed vicariously in the lightened scale of forgiveness; but in the heights and depths of the Godhead alone; in the holiness which abhors evil; in the rectitude which intensely loves the law; in the wisdom which must demonstrate that the Salvation of Sinners is no easy process; and in the boundless grace which resolves to endure all that sin and sinners can inflict, as a demonstration of the impossibility there is, even for Omnipotence, to save by an arbitrary act, without a 'ransom’ and a sacrifice

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10. There has been a violent stress in one direction, and it needs a counterweight

11. One side held the extra battery (stolen from what is now the trailer), while the other side was full of rocks as counterweight

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12. Plus she’d been feeling shut out of his life for so long—that large, public life so unlike her own compact existence—that whenever anything happened to her that did not involve him, she was inclined to keep it hidden, as a counterweight

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13. However, the market needs the small investor as a counterweight to the unimaginative short-termism of the major institutional holders

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14. On the first point, there is room for some difference of opinion whether or not the ability to control a private business affords a full counterweight (in value analysis) to the advantage of marketability enjoyed by a listed stock

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15. If you work at a bank or other financial company, a sharp rise in interest rates could limit your raise or even threaten your job security—so a junk fund, which tends to outper-forms most other bond funds when interest rates rise, might make sense as a counterweight in your 401(k)

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16. I squinted at the shut ceiling and saw a counterweight suspended in half light

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