Counterweights

Depleted uranium has peaceful applications, such as counterweights in aircraft, missiles and racing sailboat keels and as a material used in hospitals for shielding x-rays or gamma radiation from equipment used for radiation therapy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Exquisite brass gears, cogs and counterweights shifted. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are plenty of counterweights to the Huffington Post, said Harry Gural, a spokesman for Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The kits include a line button, counterweights, screws and directions. ❋ John Merwin (2009)

Given this reality, it's important to have institutions that can act as counterweights to the power of big money. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The most effective counterweights to large corporations are competitor corporations and informed consumers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

View from the western side of the bridge (to the northeast), showing the bridge's gigantic concrete counterweights. ❋ Sovay (2010)

Furthermore, any faith that a revolution would provide us with more justice rather than just reassert injustice is challenged by the evidence of the major socialist revolutions of the past century with Cuba and Vietnam offering possible counterweights to an otherwise devastating track record for revolutionary socialism. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Uranium is mainly used for nuclear fuel but also to harden missile tips, make counterweights for lifts and as a tool for medical diagnostics. ❋ John W. Miller (2011)

When you swing your arms, they become counterweights to stabilize the head. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Other analysts said that given Indonesia's transition toward democratic governance, it makes sense to reengage with powerful elements of its military, in part to build up counterweights to China's increasing power in the region. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Few administrations in Washington have had the political stomach for sustained feuding with Israel, and though Obama has shown more steel than many of his predecessors, his ambitious legislative agenda and the specter of losing the Democratic majority in Congress in midterm elections this November are both serious counterweights. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These assets pose plenty of risks, but consumers and planners are seeing them as sources of cash and potential counterweights to stocks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lead directors are gaining clout on U.S. boards, a development that gives the boards the potential to become more effective counterweights to powerful chief executives. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The counterweights on the progressive side are no match. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though one Jang rival, Ri Je Gang, died in a suspicious car crash just days before Jang's job promotion, Kim Jong Il is still counting on those like Kim Jong Gak (general of the Korean People's Army), O Kuk Ryol (another National Defense Commission vice chairman) and Kim Yong Chun (minister of the People's Armed Forces) as counterweights. ❋ Unknown (2010)