Sentences with phrase «as a counterbalance»

Its genuine Carrara marble base acts as a counterbalance for the arched stainless steel stem, while the generous sweep of its neck creates a sculptural display.

This grooves stability and balance through a limited range of motion while the med - ball works as a counterbalance.

Full disclosure: I have a great admiration for Tenney Naumer, and if her phrasing is a bit stark at times, it is necessary as a counterbalance for the habit of understatement prevalent in the scientific community.

The reduction in the maximum length of a Parliament was seen as a counterbalance to the new powers granted to the Commons.

It will also act as a counterbalance when the bow is fully drawn.

During the sixties, arts funding was partially used as a counterbalance to the political consequences from the institute's complicated and financially fertile military industrial connections.

Many of us assume, looking back at what history tells us, that when the institutional church grows weak and ineffective the churches themselves have no power as a counterbalancing force.

If Mr. Trump takes office on January 20, 2017, it will be just as urgent to have a Congress as committed as possible to life, religious freedom, constitutional government, and colorblind equality as a counterbalance to who - knows - what will be coming out of the White House.

While Lionel Messi, Dani Alves and Xavi would form a high - intensity passing trio on the right, the left - side (or «weak side») functioned as a counterbalance, with a striker in left wing and Eric Abidal or Sylvinho playing off - the - ball.

In testimony before the U.S. Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality, Marsden Wagner MD, European Director of the World Health Organization, suggested the need in the U.S. for a «strong independent midwifery profession as a counterbalance to the obstetrical profession in preventing excessive interventions in the normal birth process.»

At the regional level, most analysts (e.g. Silla Vacia [in Spanish]-RRB- have reflected on the future of regional organisations such as UNASUR and ALBA that Chávez backed as a counterbalance to the influence of the United States.

In the nearby 22nd congressional district, the National Republican Congressional Committee has already aired an ad in which candidate Claudia Tenney is presented as a counterbalance to Clinton in the White House.

No, I've decided that the reverse is true; I absorb apocalyptic visions as counterbalance to a fundamentally optimistic personal / political faith in humanity's capacity to find a better way to live.

By dropping a large percentage of bodyweight behind the heels and using the weight of the Steel Club as a counterbalance, there is an opportunity to refine the spinal alignment of the squat.

But even if Toller considers a fiery outcome inevitable, he'll do everything in his power to defer it — to use his calling as a counterbalance to the all - consuming «despair» and «blackness,» as he defines it for a parishioner, that's mankind's lot to endure.

R provides eloquent voiceover as counterbalance to his slow - moving, groaning corpse.

As India, the fatherless young woman who comes to suspect her «Uncle Charlie» is a murderer, Wasikowska deftly uses her delicate features as a counterbalance to her character's darker and more perverse proclivities — for the film is less a mystery about who Uncle Charlie is and more so who India really is.

Source Code is not only a gripping thriller, but a cautionary tale about the dark side of scientific advances and human decency as a counterbalance.

Perhaps the greatest contribution of MI theory, I would argue, has been its role over the past decade as a counterbalance to an educational climate increasingly focused on high - stakes testing, such as the IQ test, the SAT, and the various state assessments that have emerged from the No Child Left Behind Act.

Banks will see two negative elements in its evaluation, with nothing positive as a counterbalance.

Julia: I really see Made in Space as a counterbalance to all of the blockbuster museum shows happening in New York right now featuring heavyweight LA artists by showcasing some younger talent, several with little to no exhibition history in New York.

She uses memory and forgetting as a counterbalance.

They are stipulated in some land use plans as a counterbalance to paved surfaces — and in some parts of Germany they even attract public subsidies.

Or the birds eye view that sees increasing rents as a counterbalance that overcomes the former strategy's returns over the long run.

The wooden frame and the blue box are meant as a counterbalance for the green and pink.

For example, «the tail acts as a counterbalance when the dog is leaping, walking along narrow structures, or climbing.»

In order to compensate that you will arch your backs to work as a counterbalance.

But such commissioners aren't by any means democratically accountable — nor can they be seen as a counterbalance to a system run by the centre.

I try to run and exercise regularly to keep myself generally fit — and to serve as a counterbalance to my love of hamburgers and tacos.

I added the long green necklace1) as counterbalance for the red and 2) to give the outfit a bit of a modern look.

To compensate you will arch your back to work as a counterbalance.

One reason why many people support devolution to English localities is as a counterbalance to «overweening» central control.

As a counterbalance, she elicited comments from Mr. Sung Soo Kim a 30 - year veteran in the fight to save small business and founder of the Korean American Small Business Service Center.

The security researchers who dissect computer programs for weaknesses are seen by some as the counterbalance to lax technology companies that sell vulnerable products and by others as opportunists who promote their work so they can sell products and services designed to fix the problems that they find.

Compared with the galaxy - laced, matter - filled regions where we've so far directed most of our study, voids should «feel» the enlarging effects of dark energy or modified gravity more, on account of having less gravity - generating matter acting as a counterbalance.

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain's proposal to offer a taxpayer - funded $ 300 - million prize to the developer of a battery package that could cost - effectively power cars may have a game show element about it, but his supporters view it as a counterbalance to his «drill baby drill» approach to energy and the environment.

The chair should be someone with sufficient weight to act as a counterbalance to your thesis adviser should any difference of opinion arise.

As biography, I found Genius unsatisfactory, focusing (perhaps intentionally, as a counterbalance to the public image) on the gloomier side to Feynman's life than the friendly image of a wisecracking practical joker and bongo - playing extrovert popularised by TV programmes and two books of reminiscences.

Squat down on one leg, keeping the ball out in front of you and parallel to the floor to act as a counterbalance.

It works as a counterbalance to sodium in your body; so while sodium increases your blood pressure, potassium lowers it.

I personally find that I'm better at my science when I have some form of artistic expression to act as a counterbalance.

Branagh doesn't overdo it either, as he counterbalances this depiction with a lot of humor, especially when Thor ends up on earth.

Meanwhile, his daughter's joyful innocence acts as a counterbalance to the hard life that they both have ahead of them.

As a counterbalance to his «natural» environment, Sam has dreams in which he is an armoured, winged hero.