He added a counterbalancing weight.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

So there are counterbalancing considerations that we have to look at.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2006] Reference

It was supposed to be balanced with each branch counterbalancing the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamie Lee Curtis: Thanksgiving...] Reference

There seems to be no counterbalancing group or groups in favor of the changes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facebook Users Revolt, Facebook Replies] Reference

The word “positive” itself was defined in mutually counterbalancing terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

But I think counterbalancing that is the fact that people are looking for a change.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2006] Reference

Plus, he said, even if his hunch is correct, there may be counterbalancing benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Front in Abortion Battle] Reference

However, counterbalancing the positive outlook in China is the dismal picture in Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Could Resources Become] Reference

But counterbalancing that trend are the youngsters, who also are being wooed to stay put.    From Wordnik.com.  [Got Bonus Envy?] Reference

But that rapid growth in demand is largely offset by a number of counterbalancing factors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worried about Price of Gas? End U.S. Wars] Reference

In the reprobate, also, the outward man perishes, but without any counterbalancing compensation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference

There will be a counterbalancing effect if he stays in as everyone tries to avoid a repeat of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nader: I'm Running Again] Reference

So the Dems can claim moral superiority, and their candidate gets slimed, with little counterbalancing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exclusive: MoveOn To Close Its 527 In Response To Obama's Candidacy] Reference

In most people, as they move towards maturity, those counterbalancing influences are supposed to develop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

But perhaps the person who most gave counterbalancing argument to the 9-11 truthers seems to have been banned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coming Soon-- Riots in America?] Reference

Well, like I say below, I could live with this if we saw so something counterbalancing all the rightward moves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports: Gates To Stay As Secretary Of Defense] Reference

Transvaal since the discovery of gold there may be regarded as counterbalancing the material advantages secured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and Her Queen] Reference

In theory, this is mitigated by government, which exercises a counterbalancing effect by providing public goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consider the Ant] Reference

They decided not to use nuclear weapons, but the socialist bloc existed then as a tremendous counterbalancing force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castro Gives News Conference 24 Feb] Reference

There are ways to generate text that would work better at counterbalancing the spamminess of the link and the image.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Far, So Good] Reference

Russia and a Franco-British combination until she had formed a counterbalancing alliance with America, Italy, and Turkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference

He had heard of the principle: a vertical post with a horizontal projection, counterbalancing the business end of the bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up In A Heaval]

But once again, the MSM, in its typical failure to report counterbalancing doubts and anomalies, casts no light on the issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [All the News that Fits the Bush Agenda] Reference

Ascent: The machine carried Roziers and the counterbalancing weight -- fire being in the grating -- to the height of 700 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference

So, take some of those campaign resources directed towards counterbalancing the McCain camp attacks and start mobilizing the base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Garibaldi-Frick: Get Out the Vote During the Home Stretch!] Reference

A new progressive era also requires that the labor movement be rebuilt and restored to its counterbalancing position in our society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynn R. Williams: Rebuilding the Labor Movement] Reference

This was seen either as a human satiric norm counter - balancing an inhuman one, or as a comic movement counterbalancing the tragic.    From Wordnik.com.  [IRONY] Reference

ENSOR: French President Chirac is said to see ending the embargo on China and boosting trade as a way of counterbalancing U.S. power in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2005] Reference

It is most convenient to take readings by counterbalancing the column of potash solution and reading off the volume of gas at atmospheric pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

K'Naan is admirably skillful and admirably shameless about counterbalancing the horrors of his childhood with celebratory, commercially ambitious music.    From Wordnik.com.  [K'Naan: Hip-Hop's New Pop 'Troubadour'] Reference

So, therefore, it is always through the blood that we must assist nature in the process of counterbalancing and rectifying or healing abnormal conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference

Of course, always restraint is counterbalancing it, but we will see people that are very serious, that hopefully we'll interrupt before they do something like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2007] Reference