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Meanings of counterpoise in English
Spanish
contrapesar Synonyms
Examples for "balance"
Examples for "balance"
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Recent elections have given minority parties or individuals the balance of power.
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Order and safety always trump freedom when government needs to balance them.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's political future hangs in the balance today.
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It changed the balance of power and the course of human events.
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Therefore government borrowing would never be needed to balance inadequate private demand.
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Spain were on course for defeat until Aspas flicked in the equaliser.
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Late or not, the equaliser was the least the home team deserved.
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Sylvan Ebanks-Blake had given the hosts the lead before Peter Clarke's equaliser.
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Morocco exited the tournament after conceding a late equaliser against South Africa
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Ibrahimovic's late equaliser against Italy in 2004 unquestionably falls into that category.
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She's a counterbalance to Kesey's central question about the nature of sanity.
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It was thus a counterbalance to the idolatrous nature of Israelite religion.
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My point, though, is that there's normally nobody to counterbalance the president.
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The only counterbalance to depression, apart from pills of course, is compassion.
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She had to counterbalance Todd's fine-ground morality, his growing hatred of difference.
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At stake, then, is the idea that efficiency is the great equalizer.
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Colorado got the equalizer on its third power play of the game.
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Once you start fiddling with the equalizer settings it's hard to stop.
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The Flyers then made their third-period push as Simmonds scored the equalizer.
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But their inability to get the equalizer wasn't all because of Lehner.
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Enter what some might view as a counterintuitive counterweight: US military brass.
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But he hopes it will act as another sizable counterweight for change.
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The specific gravity is then found as follows: First, counterpoise the counterweight.
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A new political counterweight to the European Central Bank is under serious consideration.
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Despite flawed policies, the group is a useful counterweight in the global economy.
Usage of counterpoise in English
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The specific gravity is then found as follows: First, counterpoise the counterweight.
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It accounted for her having detractors; a heavy counterpoise to her enthusiastic friends.
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Parliament looked to him as the only possible counterpoise to Lambert.
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No effective counterpoise to his power was apparent within the Empire.
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But God has given it a terrestrial body to serve for a counterpoise.
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He knew that activity, and not despondency, is the true counterpoise to misfortune.
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Parties were burning to measure their strength free from any counterpoise.
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These monkeys raised in the scale were a counterpoise to men brutalized and bestialized.
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On pulling this, the counterpoise falls and the shaft flies upwards drawing the sling.
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But these found a powerful counterpoise in the political relations.
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The plate chain which carries the large western counterpoise broke.
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It entered the scale against royalty, and was its counterpoise.
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And that is the perfect counterpoise to the ontological argument.
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By way of counterpoise, there were admirable surprises in man.
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Every power that has no counterpoise, no autocratic control, leads to abuses and folly.
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Here was a counterpoise to my Romans, still more forcible than the little garden.
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