counterweighted

• “As David Owen points out in his forthcoming Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability, in the office campus, people work in sprawling buildings and drive between them; in the high-rise, people work in a compact building, use elevators (which are inherently energy-efficient, since they are counterweighted), and walk to lunch.”

  The Green Case for Cities

• “Maybe the only way you could even imagine tackling your Grand Enterprise was with a confidence bordering on messianic delusion counterweighted by a criticality that damned it as the utmost folly — in short, with a psyche strung tighter than the tension between God and Lucifer if they met in a Harold Pinter play.”

  Genius in a Bottle

• “I just had to do it – I hope it didn't come across as misogynistic or gratuitous … I do think it's counterweighted by the fact that I'm in love now.”

  The Guardian: Carl Barât: The interview

• “They are counterweighted by moments of ache (Wayne's abuse, Margene's break-down at her old job), humor (Nicki's catty asides), and tenderness.”

  The Huffington Post: Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 1

• “Common sense is still marginalized as "the left," counterweighted in the media by the intensifying stridency of the highly organized and well-financed Republican right.”

  The Huffington Post: The Gitmo Distraction

• “In a suburban office campus, for example, people work in low, sprawling buildings and drive between them; in a city, people work in compact multistory buildings, use elevators which are inherently energy efficient since they are counterweighted, and walk to lunch.”

  Simon & Schuster: Makeshift Metropolis

• “The glass walls are visually counterweighted by sculptural, solid elements in the house rendered in stone, dark stained oak, tinted concrete and plaster.”

  The Openhouse by XTEN Architecture

• “But their "belief" is counterweighted by the beliefs of other scientific and health policy authorities, who beg to disagree.”

  David Kirby: Former UK Science Chief -- Vaccines Cause Autism: "What More Evidence is Needed?"

• “The Silent Master removed a counterweighted sheet of glass and iron.”

  The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection

• “Arkady coasted through and found a service road where Bela's van was parked at a gate, not a simple counterweighted pole but a steel gate that was rolled shut.”

  Wolves Eat Dogs

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