Balance

//ˈbæləns//

"Balance" in a Sentence (33 examples)

The French government has launched an online game that challenges taxpayers to balance the national budget.

The balance at the bank stands at two million yen.

It took me several days to balance the company books.

We should strike a balance between our expenditure and income.

The pommel horse requires more balance than strength.

The boat was off balance because it was overloaded.

I lost my balance on the muddy road.

The question threw him off his balance.

The issue is in the balance.

You can weigh your baggage in this balance.

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But civilized man is quite a different animal, and when he wipes out an entire city or levels a forest, he is no longer working within the natural balance of things.

These weights are used as a balance for the overhanging verandah.

Blair thought he could provide a useful balance to Bush's policies.

The balance of power finally lay with the Royalist forces.

I think the balance of opinion is that we should get out while we're ahead.

The shift in the balance of power online has allowed anyone to publish to the world, from dispirited teenagers in south London to an anonymous cyber-dissident in a Middle East autocracy.

I just need to nip to a bank and check my balance.

The balance of the agreement remains in effect.

The invoice said he had only paid $50. The balance was $220.

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the Proteus Principle helps to qualify and balance the concepts of narrators and of narrative situations as previously developed in classical studies by G erard Genette and Franz Stanzel.

I balanced my mug of coffee on my knee.

The circus performer balances a plate on the end of a baton.

Ballance the Good and Evil of Things.

Mr. Morrison's ruling to reopen the station as a shelter was given after he had balanced the relative dangers of flooding and bombing.

to balance partners

to balance the boom mainsail

to balance a set of books

This final payment, or credit, balances the account.

I am very well satisfied that it is not in my power to balance accounts with my Maker.

Libra, or the Balance holdeth in the Navel, the Reins, and the lower parts of the Womb.

The Balance shows redemption’s need; The Scorpion wounds He must endure; The Archer tells His coming sure; The Goat, His death in sacrifice[.]

The Balance, we have been told, "marks the equality of the days and nights at the equinoxes." Possibly; but the Balance is just the one sign not truly archaic, and I think we shall find that quite another class of reasons operated in the selection of objects.

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