counterpoises

Interests in both hemispheres would be better served if Washington shined the public diplomacy lovelight on the Kremlin's new military cooperation agreement with Venezuela that counterpoises the US presence in Colombia.

Eric Ehrmann: How Sweet It Is... Brazil's Sugar Ethanol Fuels China's Recovery 2009

That side will force the other to follow suit; each will drive its opponent toward extremes, and the only limiting factors are the counterpoises inherent in war.

Is That Legal?: Is Bill Stuntz Right About Military Strategy In Iraq? 2006

The lower story of this tower consisted only of an archway or passage through the building, over either entrance to which hung a drawbridge with counterpoises, either of which, when dropped, connected the archway with the opposite abutment, where the farther end of the drawbridge rested.

The Monastery 2008

By rejecting the dynamic that counterpoises so-called western modernity to “Oriental” traditionalism, Dabashi creates a new historiography inspired by Edward Said's scholarship and Fanon's studies of colonialism.

Transcending the Colonizer's History: A Review of Hamid Dabashi's Iran, A People Interrupted 2008

Consequently, the weight of a shot will decrease, and will become reduced to zero at the instant that the attraction of the moon exactly counterpoises that of the earth; that is to say at

From the Earth to the Moon 2003

But in America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

But in America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

In other instances more complicated mechanism is used, and various movable counterpoises are usually required in order to balance the moving parts of the machine.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various

I found there were several other weights which were equally heavy, and exact counterpoises to one another; a few of them I tried, as avarice and poverty, riches and content, with some others.

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

The successive lighting of the two altars, the flow of milk and wine, and the noise of drums and cymbals were likewise obtained by the aid of cords moved by counterpoises, and the lengths of which were graduated in such a way as to open and close orifices, at the proper moment, by acting through traction on sliding valves which kept them closed.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various