At the same time, several analysts said on Friday that a combination of the two companies' online businesses would present a potentially powerful counterweight to Google's dominance of the online search and advertising market.

Taken at face value their evidence was a powerful counterweight to the tenuous defence of accident and the defence needed all the information it could get in order to decide how best to attack the Crown case.

France wants Britain to provide a powerful, activist counterweight to Germany's slow-growth monetary and economic policies.

The alliance of the three powers, supplemented by agreements with Portugal and Japan, constituted a powerful counterweight to the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.

There is no more powerful counterweight to Beijing than Hanoi, whose tiny army bludgeoned China's in their 1979 border war.

In essence, the law creates a parents' union, which advocates say will provide powerful and needed counterweight to teachers' unions and district bureaucracies.

Gasoline prices have become a powerful counterweight to regulatory benefits given the biggest gas guzzlers.

But a shrinking pool of blue-collar jobs in the New York metropolitan area has eroded the traditional structure of aspirations that served as a powerful counterweight to the temptations of crime and drugs.

Furthermore, to argue based on that victory that "there is no more powerful counterweight to Beijing than Hanoi" ignores the huge increase in Chinese power over the last 15 years.

However, the Ottoman Empire players are unusually united and thus potentially provide a powerful counterweight to Russia and the Austrian Hapsburgs.