This climate should produce an a important, long-term counterweight to the problems of our economy as a whole. From Wordnik.com. [Incubating Change to Immigration Law with the Startup Visa Movement] Reference
For me, playing the counterweight has been a dynamic experience.?. From Wordnik.com. [Up Close with “The Closer” Star Robert Gossett] Reference
Leopold is the supposed inventor of the elevator aka the counterweight pulley. From Wordnik.com. [dailycomic Diary Entry] Reference
Israel's official response to J Street, which though less than two years old has been described as a counterweight to AIPAC, has gone from chill to cold-shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Bradley Burston: Dovish Jews? They Love Israel? Excommunicate Them] Reference
Being a "counterweight" to the U.S. was folly on the part of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Welcomes the U.S. Back, Sort-Of] Reference
Not a new Warsaw Pact, but some kind of counterweight to the hegemony of the U. S.Why do you think NATO is bombing you?. From Wordnik.com. [A Milosevic In Moscow] Reference
His counterweight was the book’s narrator, here called “Greenhorn,” a young callow first-time sailor searching for his own identity. From Wordnik.com. [Moby-Dick premieres in Dallas] Reference
Remember it was only a generation ago that we helped create the Chinese hydra that we now face by trying to look at them a a 'counterweight' to Russia. From Wordnik.com. [Let's take a closer look at Ron Paul.] Reference
And I thought that we had to have a system where it will engage at the same time many countries to have a kind of counterweight to the might of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By President Clinton And Pm Chretien] Reference
One U.S. intelligence source who asked not to be named said that not only was Hamas being funded as a "counterweight" to the PLO. From Wordnik.com. [CANNONFIRE] Reference
"It is totally irresponsible for Manuel to suggest 'counterweight' when there is a glaring imbalance in favour of business," the NUM said. From Wordnik.com. [News24 Top Stories] Reference
"The Justice Department now acts as a kind of counterweight to corporate power," said Frank O. Bowman, a law professor at the University of Missouri. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
Offering a 'counterweight' to mainstream press coverage. (. From Wordnik.com. [Internet Foreign Coverage Superior to Mainstream Media] Reference
If NATO goes too far into expansion this union could be a counterweight. From Wordnik.com. [A Milosevic In Moscow] Reference
Occasionally, device manufacturers would provide a counterweight -- as in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Sometime in the 21st century, Tokyo could become the main counterweight to China. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Power Struggle] Reference
The specific gravity is then found as follows: First, counterpoise the counterweight. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
After Nixon's opening in 1972, China acted mostly as a cold-war counterweight to Moscow. From Wordnik.com. [A Goose Step Into The Future] Reference
TURKEY: A counterweight to Teheran, Ankara offers a secular Muslim model for modernization. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Game, Chapter Two] Reference
The collapse of Soviet communism reduces the need to use China as a counterweight to Moscow. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Gulag] Reference
Mexico could easily use its size and record to provide a counterweight to Havana and Caracas. From Wordnik.com. [Chávez Lives Castro's Dream] Reference
On Europe as a counterweight to American hyperpower: To be a counterweight in itself is nothing bad. From Wordnik.com. ['This Process Will Go On'] Reference
During the cold war, the U.S. nuclear capability served as a counterweight to Soviet conventional forces. From Wordnik.com. [Arms Control: The End Of The Beginning?] Reference
European leaders make no secret of the fact that China is their most effective counterweight to U.S. hegemony. From Wordnik.com. [BULLETS FOR BEIJING] Reference
Russia's rise as an energy exporter has been hailed as a crucial counterweight to global dependence on Middle Eastern oil. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico: Obrador Burns His Bridges] Reference
Countries that wish to resist it will inevitably be tempted to develop nuclear capacities as a similar kind of counterweight. From Wordnik.com. [Arms Control: The End Of The Beginning?] Reference
Nor will India want to play along as a counterweight to China, since its own relations with its powerful neighbor are crucial. From Wordnik.com. [India Rising] Reference
To such unfounded faith in automatic progress a valuable counterweight is acquaintance with the life of a man like St. Augustine. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
Now that counterweight is fast vanishing, and the small republics may discover that the new union treaty chafes more than it liberates. From Wordnik.com. [Falling Idols] Reference
Some members of Congress have stressed the availability of legitimately-offered films as a counterweight to the "take everything free" mantra. From Wordnik.com. [Opinion: Copyright And Creativity] Reference
Apart from appearing as a lifeline to flailing western economies, India is a counterweight, at least in the fantasies of western strategists, to China. From Wordnik.com. [Why silence over Kashmir speaks volumes] Reference
The empty wheelbarrows were lowered by hand, by means of a rope passing over a sheave and provided with a counterweight to check the descent of the barrow. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
New York's Charles Schumer pointed out that Democrats want Kagan to be a counterweight to decades of conservative hegemony when it comes to courtroom humor. From Wordnik.com. [Kagan's Wit Helps Her Court Favor] Reference
Smart and collegial, Chernin has been an effective counterweight to Murdoch's bold risk-taking, helping make News Corp. one of the industry's best-run outfits. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment: Who's Going To Disneyland Next?] Reference
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