He also showed a "disappearing" gun in an earthwork, the gun recoiling below the level of the parapet and being run up to a firing position by a counterweight.
The counterweight being suitably adjusted, the lever falls when the thread has become fine enough to need another cocoon.
Their boats are very narrow, and have only a counterweight at the opposite end, where they carry their sail.
This overcame the atmospheric pressure on the piston from above and allowed the piston to rise by a counterweight on the rod over and connecting to the pump.
Yet Sir Gregory delivered it with an incisive gusto, desperately countersigning his own death warrant.
A broad and nonrestrictive mandate, combined with an all-encompassing jurisdiction, offers important counterweights to the ombudsman's lack of sanctioning power.
Lines, cords, pulleys, and counterweights "activated an elaborate system of screens, shutters and curtains positioned at both sources" of light (skylights and windows) (165).
In this context, the lack of direct benefit to the patient provides no counterweight to the loss of dignity incurred.
