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Перевод: counterweight

[существительное]
противовес ; контргруз

Тезаурус:

1. Russia and Cuba were expanding their activities in Africa at the time and the generals were demanding every man as a counterweight in Europe against the Warsaw Pact armies.
2. As a theory it is common enough: in the Italian Constitution the family is the only association among people which is designated "natural", and contemporary British conservatives tend to see the family as a possible counterweight to the power of the state.
3. It goes far towards helping to account not only for the high and growing degree of relative autonomy from non-Nazi lites enjoyed by Hitler and the Nazi leadership, but also - as the counterweight to terror, repression, and intimidation - for the weakness of resistance to the regime.
4. Attlee, an astute judge of men, banked on Mountbatten's ambition to provide an adequate counterweight to his proclivity for risk, and in this judgement he was proved to be correct.
5. It is impossible to recognize in the poet thus characterized - "precious", "insulate", "toylike" - the William Carlos Williams whom American opinon over the last thirty years has promoted as a respectable, and better than respectable, counterweight to Eliot.
6. I wanted a physical scale and mass which would act as counterweight to the columns and the weight of the stone.
7. Some governors saw the "native aristocracy" as a counterweight to upwardly-mobile Low Country families, many of them non-Goyigama, who had taken advantage of the commercial and educational opportunities of British rule.
8. Duman (1979) points out that the ideal of service served in the nineteenth century as a counterweight to the ascendant laissez-faire business ideology.
9. On balance the trading aspects of what came to be known as the Old Colonial System probably favoured England more than the colonies, though the colonial monopoly of English markets was a substantial counterweight to English monopoly of colonial trade.
10. Much as the CMEA emerged as a diplomatic counterweight to the Marshal Plan and OEEC, the Warsaw Pact arose principally in response to the entry of the Federal Republic of Germany into NATO.
11. Finally, as Astbury comments, libraries would claim to contribute the critical component in the market, to provide the counterweight to bestsellerdom, and to contribute substantially to sustaining a wide range of serious books.
12. In Boston, NAD came up with a sprung counterweight which the owner can adjust to cancel out the vertical resonance of the arm.
13. The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, comprising the USSR, Poland, the GDR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, was founded in 1949 as a diplomatic counterweight to the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) and as a multilateral forum for containing the effects of Titoism.