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That changed in 1786, when the Sultan of Kedah granted company representative Francis Light rights to the island of Penang and the strip of mainland coast opposite Province Wellesley (now Seberang Perai) as a counterweight to the pressing demands of the neighboring Thais and Burmese.
She was a real counterweight to Tony and Silvio and Paulie Walnuts and Pussy and all the charm they hold for the likes of you, which in a mob context amounts to a giant feminist manifesto.
Halfway back along Kyushu’s west coast, Kumamoto is an old castle town that was of considerable importance to the Tokugawa shoguns as a counterweight to the presence of the annoyingly independent Shimazu clan down in Kagoshima.
George W. Bush's campaign theme represents a vision of government that balances compassion against self-interest, just as Bill Clinton evoked individual responsibility as a counterweight to government benevolence in 1992.
As counterweight, British legislation reserved parliamentary seats for religious minorities, but the Punjab and Bengal had such a complicated mixture of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs that it was not possible to avoid fights over how separate constituencies were to be formed.