Corbyn’s politics resonate as [...] social ballast to the current toxic tug towards the xenophobic far Right

the fetter is an unfortunate impediment rather than immovable ballast

Communities are not formed haphazardly, and if the development of a class culture or identity includes a degree of contingency, it is supplied with ballast by ‘objective’ socio-economic factors.

regimes figureheaded by the Clintons, Obama and Blair attempted to garner additional ideological ballast for violence, by assimilating sections of society that Thatcher and Reagan actively fought

The novel's bulk has already so properly ballasted Ray, has made his mind so present to us

Infinite Jest nevertheless has enough solid emotional ballast in it to keep it from sinking

his imagination has no ethical ballast at all