Putting Russian gas in Nabucco dilutes its importance as a counterweight to Russia's monopoly on east-west gas supplies.
Its postwar bargain with France provided the motor for European integration. Its instinctive Atlanticism served as a counterweight to French resentment of US power.
Early learning can be an important counterweight.
Speedingthrough Dacca, Bangladesh, on foot should keep this rickshaw driver'slungs in top shape, but pollution is a heavy counterweight.
The SCO "is an incipient counterweight" to the U.S. and NATO, Kupchan says. "If they spike it with Iran, you've got something ugly."
Between 2001 and 2008 it acted as a useful counterweight to the credit cycle.
How can people do such things if God were not at work in them to lend a counterweight to a natural disaster?
It could also bring Hanoi into conflict with Beijing, at a time when Vietnam's leaders have been improving defence co-operation with the US as a counterweight to China.
The European Commission is looking at the idea of creating a home-grown rating agency as a counterweight to the American trio.
France, once a counterweight to the economics of deflation, seems now to think it has no option but to acquiesce.
It promised a counterweight to a supine tendency to follow socially sanctioned practices and ideas.
My hunch is that PR is merely a counterweight to the media's strong, commercially driven appetite for bad news.
What's happening in Wisconsin is, instead, a power grab - an attempt to exploit the fiscal crisis to destroy the last major counterweight to the political power of corporations and the wealthy.
But that is mostly because Germany's current-account surplus, equivalent to 6% of GDP last year according to the OECD, has acted as a huge counterweight to deficits elsewhere.
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