Of course his talk about the First Amendment is really a makeweight.

Beneath the disc was welded a box for the makeweight.

Wilmington, also part of the Beaufort lands, seems to have been included as a makeweight.

A high-level delegation, with one junior lieutenant thrown in as a makeweight.

For Harewood was no makeweight in the world of opera.

'The other man's a makeweight - an insurance for them in case I withdraw.

There is no makeweight in that load of blood-sausage.

It was a delightful makeweight for her prim, over-respectable past.

Parliament was neither a rubber-stamp nor a makeweight in the constitutional balance.

Oh, no, he's just a makeweight, he is.

Similarly, you could loan a big-name player worth millions and then use him as a makeweight in transfer deals.

But he was the makeweight.

Clough has waited a long time for a decent run to establish himself after more than two years as squad makeweight.

Fortunately there were some English Blofields he could throw in as makeweight.

Some makeweight!

Walsh was the makeweight in a "plus cash" player exchange for Darren Anderton.

I think he considered taking them both on, with Kallibios as makeweight; then he saw the crowd following, and smiled, and went quietly.

I still haven't worked out whether I was invited as a makeweight for the odd girl or whether she was brought to counterbalance me.

Harkness is contemptuous of Horton, regarding him as a makeweight on the committee and a loose cannon politically.

Johnson was used as the makeweight in a transfer deal for Clinton Morrison, valued at £750,000 for the purposes of the transaction.

And the emptiness is more artistic than any "art" that might be concocted in 80th-story lofts thrown in as cultural makeweight.

Ireland being a makeweight in the Milner deal isn't a depressing indictment of football's rejection of the unusual.

In the summer of 1929, he was the "makeweight" in a deal with Southampton for the transfer of Billy Murphy.

However in the close season he was sold to Bournemouth as a makeweight in the deal which took Ian Bishop to Maine Road.

During the first decade of the twentieth century it became apparent that Britain could no longer sustain its role as an independent makeweight in the European balance of power.