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Vasiliev's Spartacus is a leader you'd follow to hell and back, and his ardour and muscle are perfectly counter-weighted by the dewy tenderness of Nina Kaptsova's Phrygia.

Spartacus; Laurencia 2010

After retirement in 1982, he continued to work and publish, and in a 1987 article recommended that in the newest "super performance fighters" the pilot might have to be in a "prone position with counter-weighted head support plus omni-directional surveillance."

A Research Physician's Innovations Bore Fruit in Unexpected Ways 2009

The church had a small stone arch built on one end of its roof that acted as the belfry for the one counter-weighted bell.

Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

The church had a small stone arch built on one end of its roof that acted as the belfry for the one counter-weighted bell.

Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

They had put him into a kind of enclosed seat at the end of a long rotating arm, counter-weighted at the opposite side of the aircar proper, and the whole affair swung gently in an eccentric path, around and around, and up and down as the aircar moved very slowly forward through the village.

The Worshippers Damon Francis Knight 1962

_F_ is counter-weighted so that when the bell _G_ descends the tap is opened, and when the bell rises the tap is closed.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

The lever is fastened to a horizontal spindle which is turned through 180° by means of a counter-weighted lever handle.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

When the bell descends this weight rests on _K_ and so moves a counter-weighted lever, which opens the valve _Q_.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

_ -- The girders are longer than the span and the part overhanging the abutment is counter-weighted so that the centre of gravity is over the abutment when the bridge is rolled forward (fig. 33 b).

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

One end of the swivelled pipe is provided with a delivery nozzle, the other end is closed and counter-weighted, so that normally the open end of the pipe is raised above the level of the water in the tank.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield