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Перевод: counterpoise

[существительное]
противовес ; равновесие;
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Тезаурус:

1. As Westernizing tribes like the Kikuyu became more and more politically active, it was only natural to look to the Masai, who showed no interest in either taxation or representation, as a potential "counterpoise to the agitator class".
2. The equilibrium so consummately achieved results from the counterpoise of a great number of directions.
3. These stories usually counterpoise the young, inexperienced, or work-shy regular recruit with the wise and diligent old-timer on the reserves, although part-time reserve police quickly come to know the bounds within which they too can "slack off" or ease, which are much narrower.
4. Peter Lovesey, whose Victorian police procedural novels featuring Sergeant Cribb are fine examples of this branch of the art, has summed it up neatly in saying that he sees himself writing books that are a counterpoise of teacups and terror.
5. In The German Ideology (1974) Marx and Engels counterpoise ideology and science.
6. Dick had persuaded himself (and so had I) that a good solution would be a middle school for 9-;13-year-olds, and an informed choice of a variety of upper schools thereafter: this would open up a rigid system and preserve the best in the grammar-school tradition, as a counterpoise to the strengths of the Public Schools.
7. (British Steel, incidentally, a major backer, wisely contented itself with anchoring a rather elegant yacht outside, a nice counterpoise to Grimshaw's distinctly nautical architecture.)
8. By the rigorously modernist Sir Norman Foster, designer of the Sainsbury Centre near Norwich and the Sackler Gallery of the Royal Academy in London, not to mention Stansted airport, it now stands in icy glass counterpoise to the famous Roman temple, the Maison Carre, to which it also alludes in its name, the Carr d'Art.
9. Take an example from Diffugere nives, the line which signals a crucial moment of counterpoise in the poem: , literally losses however swift restore heavenly moons, meaning swift moons, however, restore heavenly losses.
10. In the latter case the test apparatus is called a torsion pendulum and is usually of inverted type, having a counterpoise to remove end loads from the specimen and to test the Biot correction.
11. So, well before the Gulf War, when he turned out to be a useful counterpoise to Saddam Hussein, Assad was serving our purpose by keeping Ayatollah Khomeini quiet.
12. It makes sense for this alternative establishment to be pro-European, not only because it is in tune with the music Jacques Delors is making, but because it sees Brussels as a counterpoise to London.This is why it has been pointless to question the sincerity of Kinnock's conversion to Europe.