Exempel på counterweight

• 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.

• The directly-elected three members of the executive were intended as a counterweight to what might turn out to be a volatile legislature.

• Abandoning classical disciplinary systems would endanger especially those radically universal perspectives that act as a counterweight to extreme specialization.

• The counterweight modification method can guarantee that the seesaw angle equals zero when the cart position is located at the center of the seesaw.

• For this reason they serve as unexpected counterweights to balance overly deterministic elements that are often encountered in the technological literature.

• The colourful sails now functioned visually and as counterweights air-resistant to motion.

• The wheel freely rotated in a vertical plane with a counterweight fixed at the opposite end of the slab.

• This variable, however, must be syntactically licensed independently of the counterweight.

• There are two main methods for balancing a robot manipulator:1 1) by spring mechanisms, and 2) by counterweights.

• But he needed a cultural counterweight, a secular institution of equal prestige as a fount of knowledge and values.

• Citizenship is also important as a counterweight to the instrumentalism of the market.

• Since the counterweight is connected to the slider, the velocity of the counterweight is negative of that of the slider.

• This wide-ranging discussion of individual social intuition is an important counterweight to sociological functionalism.