counterpoise

A counterpoise though, rarely works exactly as one would hope.

But there is also the counterpoise of all those tasks that need doing.

He lives in tense counterpoise with his mother, wife and daughter in the family home.

There is usually a counterpoise buried in the ground underneath the antenna.

It wished to be on good terms with the Greek empire, as a potential counterpoise.

In these cases, a counterpoise is used instead.

There was no longer the counterpoise between Caesar and Pompey.

A counterpoise is a type of electrical ground that is not connected to earth.

Look at the modifications David made to the catapults, changing them from the lever to the counterpoise system.

In fact, some historians argue, the commission as a whole was intended to act as a counterpoise to his power.

The short end carries a weight (clay, stone, or similar) which serves as the counterpoise of a lever.

Then ensued that vast intellectual development, which, in its progress, disturbed the counterpoise between his mind and heart.

Money is a good counterpoise to beauty.

The political use of right and left seems to date from the moment when a significant lay political force arose as counterpoise to the nobility.

This antenna uses a top-loaded design and a full, 120-wire ground radial counterpoise system.

The equilibrium so consummately achieved results from the counterpoise of a great number of directions.

"Fortunately God in his mercy has provided a counterpoise to our species' innate depravity.

Thus is observed in me the counterpoise."

Counterpoise operated as a collective, wherein all members participated in the process of creating and publishing the magazine.

The opposing concepts in the upper hands show the counterpoise of creation and destruction or the fire of life.

The size of the counterpoise used for radio work depends on the wavelength of the transmit frequency.

To perform adequately, the counterpoise should extend at least half a wavelength from the antenna tower in all directions.

An institution which upheld an international and timeless divine law was a necessary counterpoise to unbridled human assertion.

Lead is also of great service as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way.

They are academic figure drawings; nude models are drawn from the back and they display pronounced counterpoise.

Torn in two, counterpoised against himself, hardly breathing, he came and passed.

Rival filibuster threats were counterpoised and made a stalemate of the issue.

Lenin's vicious calculations are counterpoised with the suffering and death of men on the battlefield.

Everything they did lay counterpoised by the disaster awaiting them at the slightest misstep.

One group of five women enters and is counterpoised by a different unit of five others.

I had been using him simply as if he were the Indian half of Mexico counterpoised against the Spanish component.

It is counterpoised by a more delicate anacrustic second theme in G sharp minor.

Today, China's entrepreneurial (or material) spirit and enlightened expressiveness are not counterpoised in some sort of dialectical contradiction.

Ralph's refusal to resort to violence throughout the novel is counterpoised by Jack's inherent love of violence.

But their most important political act was to throw their lot definitely in with Russia, so as to counterpoise the influence of France.

"Counterpoised below on the wall is a massive piece of bedrock, displaying the millennia of geological history.

The DEA questioned this tactic, and counterpoised the need for emphasis on the support of social struggles.

We released a healing, transforming power, sheer joy and fun, counterpoised with working through deep, deep buried traumas from childhood.

Give him thy daughter: What you bestow, in him I'll counterpoise, And make him weigh with her.

The wry lift at the corners of his mouth counterpoised the dark heat of his orbs as he said, "Can you believe it?

But the romance and mystery is counterpoised by some of Scott's more down-to-earth characters, and grittily unromantic events.

His paintings can then be likened to a sort of fugue-like arrangement: each variation counterpoised against one another, yet all existing within one architectonic structure.

The drum is counterpoised to a lower office wing, clad in glass, that stretches out on the sloping land like a bridge from the present toward the past.

He was a hapless teen-age Everyman counterpoised to the hyperpotent Superman, who had made his debut just a few years earlier.

In an allegorical painting, the figure may be counterpoised to Prudence, representing a choice, or alone, representing the unwisdom of the actors in the painting.

Counterpoised to Guy Debord's political and polemic style, Vaneigem offered a more poetic and spirited prose.

Ostensibly the book is Barry's confession of his life's iniquities, counterpoised against the long-ago glories of a martyred friend and rival, Cager Lee.

This is true in the same way that our ideal of what God can do in our lives is counterpoised by the actual human condition we find ourselves in.

But that was not what held them counterpoised in this intensity of anger and hostility, so strange to both of them, and causing them both such indignant pain.

Citadel Bishop had had interlaced warrens of rock and mechmetal, shaped and counterpoised to accommodate stories and stories piled upon broad arches.