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Meanings of counterpoise in English
Spanish
contrapesar Usage of counterpoise in English
1
The specific gravity is then found as follows: First, counterpoise the counterweight.
2
It accounted for her having detractors; a heavy counterpoise to her enthusiastic friends.
3
Parliament looked to him as the only possible counterpoise to Lambert.
4
No effective counterpoise to his power was apparent within the Empire.
5
But God has given it a terrestrial body to serve for a counterpoise.
6
He knew that activity, and not despondency, is the true counterpoise to misfortune.
7
Parties were burning to measure their strength free from any counterpoise.
8
These monkeys raised in the scale were a counterpoise to men brutalized and bestialized.
9
On pulling this, the counterpoise falls and the shaft flies upwards drawing the sling.
10
But these found a powerful counterpoise in the political relations.
11
The plate chain which carries the large western counterpoise broke.
12
It entered the scale against royalty, and was its counterpoise.
13
And that is the perfect counterpoise to the ontological argument.
14
By way of counterpoise, there were admirable surprises in man.
15
Every power that has no counterpoise, no autocratic control, leads to abuses and folly.
16
Here was a counterpoise to my Romans, still more forcible than the little garden.
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