1) His no-inflation bill serves as a useful counterweight to proposals less acceptable to the Committee.

2) The senate is the opposition's counterweight to the new president.

3) In foreign affairs, he leaned heavily in the late 1970s on the United States as a counterweight to Soviet military power.

4) Finally, a constitutional court would inpart replace the function of the Weimar President in acting as a counterweight to parliament.

5) And the mining communities, for decades the only real counterweight to a coup-prone army, are disappearing.

6) Some historians have argued that the Society was a welcome counterweight to the fiercely anticlerical and anti-intellectual climate fostered by the Puritans.

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8) Social networks can act as a counter-weight to arrogant bureaucracies.

9) But for the vertigo shot alone, a horizontal miniature was built to avoid counter-weighting the heavy VistaVision camera.

10) I welcome China's growing international influence and emerging economy as a counter-weight to the US and the EU.

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12) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she will push Iraq's Arab neighbors to boost diplomatic relations and other ties with Baghdad as a counter-weight to Iranian influence.

13) There has been a violent stress in one direction, and it needs a counter-weight.'