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.

Depleted uranium 2008

The kits include a line button, counterweights, screws and directions.

Going Bail-less John Merwin 2009

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

This goes far beyond Wisconsin 2011

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

"...once we're out amongst the shadows." sovay 2010

Exquisite brass gears, cogs and counterweights shifted.

365 tomorrows » Savile Row Steel : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

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

Tea Party bloggers aim to monitor every member of Congress 2011

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.

Slavoj Zižek's animated ideas about charity are simplistic and soulless | Jonathan Glennie 2011

The most effective counterweights to large corporations are competitor corporations and informed consumers.

Technological Determinishm, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Uranium is mainly used for nuclear fuel but also to harden missile tips, make counterweights for lifts and as a tool for medical diagnostics.

Uranium's Price Rise Spurs Bid to Repeal a Mining Ban John W. Miller 2011

Exquisite brass gears, cogs and counterweights shifted.

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