Balances

America has an elaborate system of constitutional checks and balances.

They falsified the account balances to evade the tax.

To a large degree, human activity has contributed to upsetting nature's balances.

Sometimes the system of checks and balances gets out of balance.

Bruno's dog balances on a bodyboard to retrieve his ball in a pool.

There should be some type of checks and balances.

Economics play a large rôle in human affairs. Sometimes, money controls people's behaviour. An interesting speculative fiction movie is THX 1138. It is about the future in which credit flow and balances are carefully checked by a centralized computer. Everybody has a shaven head. Most wear white. The religion seems like a Buddhist-Catholic hybrid. The city is hygienic white and is subterranean. The huge city is like a clean hospital and a shopping mall. George Lucas, the filmmaker of THX 1138, also later made the more famous Star Wars. He has proclaimed his religion as Buddhist Methodist, according to Wikipedia.

The result is an absence of checks and balances and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq... I mean, of Ukraine.

The bicameral design of the legislature reflects the principle of checks and balances.

‘Lead me to the Sign of the Balances.’