Conservatives who see The New York Times as among the voices of a liberal city say The Post is a necessary ideological counterweight.

He also saw it, together with the crowns of Italy and Arles, as a necessary counterweight to the ambitions of the French king.

Citizen participation is a necessary counterweight to a pervasive police presence.

King Zog, who regarded them as a necessary counterweight to the army, steadfastly refused to replace them with Italian officers, to the chagrin of Mussolini.

She'd been brought up to believe in heaven and in its necessary counterweight, hell, the equal and opposite force that held things stable.

The President's lawyers provided the necessary counterweight to their opponents' assertions, said Akhil Reed Amar, a professor of constitutional law at Yale Law School.

Dugan's profane comedy is the necessary counterweight to that gravely classical moralizing.

They are the necessary counterweights to central governments, and without them, autocratic rule, and the neo-fundamentalism that it breeds, will remain the norm.

As noted in the report, the economic government of Europe constitutes a necessary counterweight.

How give up her ignorance and superstition, necessary counterweights to my miracle-laden omniscience?