A vertical sliding counterweighted device used to provide entrance protection on freight elevators. |
This device uses a counterweighted plug and magnet rather than a steel ball. |
It may sound as an exaggeration, but the Vaxholm case counterweighted not only two systems of social security, but also two different visions on the future economic and social structure of the European Union. |
The comedy is, however, pusillanimously counterweighted with a solemn and Oprah-ish subtext that these are way important issues. |
To Ward, the site is a delicate, mutating mesh of counterweighted considerations — a high-stakes game of pickup sticks. |
By the 14th century counterweighted trebuchets with slings to multiply the force with which the projectile was hurled had reached a high degree of sophistication. |