I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a balanced approach (= considering everything in a sensible way )
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The President spoke in favour of a calm and balanced approach.
a balanced diet (= including all the types of food that people need )
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A balanced diet is important for a child’s development.
a balanced meal (= with some of each type of food, to keep you healthy )
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We make healthy, balanced meals for our children.
balance beam
balance of payments
balance of power
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The election of so many Republicans to Congress has changed the balance of power in Washington.
balance of trade
balance sheet
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a healthy balance sheet
balance the budget (= spend only the money that is available )
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the importance of balancing the budget and cutting taxes
balanced on a knife-edge
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His future in the job is balanced on a knife-edge .
balanced precariously
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a cup of tea balanced precariously on her knee
balanced (= with a mix of academic and practical subjects )
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We want to ensure a balanced curriculum for all pupils.
balancing act
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Gilmore had to perform the difficult balancing act of attracting moderate voters without losing his Conservative base.
bank balance
evenly balanced
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The prospects for the country are fairly evenly balanced between peaceful reform and revolution.
holds the balance of power (= is able to make either side more powerful than the other by supporting them )
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A small centre party holds the balance of power in the Assembly.
lose your sight/hearing/voice/balance etc
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Mr Eyer may lose the sight in one eye.
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The tour was postponed when the lead singer lost his voice.
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Julian lost his balance and fell.
on the balance of probabilities (= considering the probability of two or more events )
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A decision about removing a child from its parents is made on the balance of probabilities.
recovered...balance
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Once she stumbled, but somehow she recovered her balance and carried on running.
redress the balance (= make the situation fair )
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Affirmative action was meant to redress the balance for minorities.
regain your balance (= become steady again, so that you do not fall over )
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She staggered a little before regaining her balance.
strike the right balance
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It isn’t always easy to strike the right balance .
the balance of power
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There has been a shift in the balance of power between the two countries.
tilt the balance
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Crisis situations tend to tilt the balance of power in favour of the president.
tip the balance in favour of
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Three factors helped to tip the balance in favour of the Labour leadership.
trade balance
upset the balance of
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The chemicals upset the balance of the environment.
work-life balance
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You can’t have a proper work-life balance if you’re in the office for 12 hours a day.
your bank balance (= the actual amount that you have in your bank account )
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I'm just going to check my bank balance online.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
delicate
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Research has suggested that for blood cells, this lipid asymmetry may help to maintain the delicate balance between haemostasis and thrombosis.
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For these folks, temperature control is a delicate balance .
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It demands considerable skills to achieve the delicate balance required between the painted finish and the natural grain of the timber.
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Good proposal writing is a delicate balance of presenting your intentions in dealing with your research problem.
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Bush's choice was of particular importance because of the Court's current delicate political balance .
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Adenosine helps regulate the delicate balance between blood flow and urine output.
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They upset the delicate balance of interests on which high organizational performance is so often based.
overall
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Whatever the overall balance sheet, Althusser's impact has been undeniable.
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When the accountants finish their calculations, all countries have an overall balance of payments equal to zero.
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Obviously, Mr Lamont accepts this view and the overall balance he has struck would seem to be right.
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Rather it is the quality of representation resulting from the overall balance of interests.
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It became even more pronounced during the period under consideration as the overall balance between manufacturing and services altered.
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Substantial balances have come from new customers while the overall average balances are higher than Gold 90 balances which are themselves significant.
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Specially, appointment to the bench should achieve some overall balance as between the nominees of the main political parties in the area.
perfect
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In such leaders, competence, vision, and virtue exist in nearly perfect balance .
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But a simple squat can exercise most of the muscles in the body and yet keep it in perfect balance .
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The perfect balance of arrogance and vulnerability.
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Even the stables were in perfect balance .
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Patrick went on to build irregular, non-symmetrical shapes with the connector rods that maintained perfect balance .
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The lack of perfect balance and coil symmetry also allows some of the fundamental switching frequency to leak through.
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Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance , teeth bared, knife poised over his head.
proper
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A form is a predetermined pattern of techniques that ties together proper posture, balance , coordination and timing.
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The other part of my proposal will probably prove annoying to radicals, thereby ensuring a proper balance .
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The Amendment, itself, strikes the proper balance between federal and state authority.
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There was also an environmental objective - to maintain a proper balance between human needs and the natural environment.
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You scratch your heads in selection, and can't find a proper balance with less than 12.
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The future for the advanced industrial countries lies increasingly in a proper balance between manufacturing and the service sector.
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In order to maintain a proper balance in your life, you must be prepared to allocate some time to yourself each day.
right
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Find the right balance between enough exercise and enough rest.
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The right balance of detail should help the reader quickly grasp the nature of the problem and your approach to it.
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The problem is to know how to strike the right balance .
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As two opposite kinds of people, when they became partners, their very differences provided the right balance for success.
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Does the school have the right balance of ages, abilities and genders?
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And so you can pick and choose and try to get the right mixture or balance .
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It is also important to get the right balance between over concern and lack of care.
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You must find the right balance of specificity and practicality between the two extremes.
■ NOUN
account
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Therefore it can either be seen as Susan's capital or as a current account balance due to Susan.
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The only difficult figure in the balance sheet, apart from the profit and loss account balance, is the minority interest.
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Question 5 Should the reporting accountant visit twice a year to check client account balances ?
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Our gold and dollar reserves are around P£400: a rather ordinary current account balance at NatWest.
bank
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Your bank balance might be given a pleasant surprise.
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Until Helen discovered what appeared to be a mistake in their bank balance , that is.
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The clever ones soon discovered that while banknotes could be seized a bank balance could not.
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Certain things, such as electric charge, bank balances , or dates are quantified by numbers of this kind.
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It's the psychological equivalent of having a flashy red sports car plus the bank balance and looks to match.
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The bank balance assured him of continued calm.
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He had a bank balance that a senior merchant banker would not be ashamed of.
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Citicorp first installed ATMs to serve customers with low bank balances .
power
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There is a particularly important chapter dealing with ethics and values, fairness and power balance .
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Through constitutional safeguards and precedents, the hybrid in every country must establish an effective power balance between its two executives.
sheet
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Mr Portillo has constantly stressed the grim state of the government's balance sheet .
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However, many consolidated balance sheets exclude some fund balance sheets.
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The changes have been entirely on the asset side of the balance sheet .
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No value is attributed to the playing squad in the group balance sheet .
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We now have two fund balance sheets in this authority's accounts.
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Pensions. 0704.14 Title warranties Assets other than those in the last audited balance sheet .
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This will lead to a strengthening of the balance sheet .
trade
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The trade balance in that year showed a deficit of US$805,000,000.
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The numbers are preliminary until the government unveils its official trade balance results for December on Feb. 8.
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The integration induced effects upon the trade balance can not be confined to the standard Vinerian concepts.
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The trade balance figures exclude sales of ships and oil rigs.
■ VERB
achieve
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At the wider level each of the units has to be sequenced to achieve a balance through the entire key stage.
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It demands considerable skills to achieve the delicate balance required between the painted finish and the natural grain of the timber.
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The management have achieved an excellent balance between service and relaxed atmosphere which is felt throughout the hotel.
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To achieve a balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide, one human needed 8 square metres of exposed Chlorella.
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She had achieved a balance between her vulnerable, nurturing, feeling side and the rational, assertive, analytical side.
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You talk about achieving a balance between idealism and realism as if we already have a perfect one.
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In drawing up their lists they take great care to achieve a balance that reflects the diversity of the electorate's concerns.
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Maybe some other race of intelligent beings elsewhere in the galaxy will achieve a better balance between responsibility and aggression.
alter
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This not only altered the strategic military balance in favour of the rebels, it also gave them an important psychological boost.
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Did they unwittingly do the worst possible thing in response, thus altering a fragile balance for ever?
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Such strange patterns of relatedness may alter the economic balance , but do not themselves cause sterility.
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An organization typically needs only to alter the balance of fears and beliefs that lay at the core of its decision-making processes.
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Reaction to speech Commentators claimed that Hussein's speech did nothing less than alter the strategic balance in the Middle East.
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Circumstances could clearly alter the balance in favour of one group rather than another and emphasise some considerations more than others.
change
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The purpose of the referendum was to change the balance of power between the executive and the legislature.
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The crisis changed the balance of power among the participants in the transformation process.
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As well as growing overall, we are also changing the balance of our activities, getting out of certain businesses and into others.
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More flexible schedules will not immediately change the balance of work done by men and women within their households.
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The new appointments did not change the party balance within the Cabinet.
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The recent legislation has changed considerably the balance of power and responsibility for public education.
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They may wish, for instance, to change the balance between teaching and non-teaching staff.
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Development has changed the balance of the world.
hang
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The future of the refuge still hangs in the balance .
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The possibility of a nuclear exchange continued to hang in the balance .
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Which Minister is the pits with the miners whose livelihoods now hang in the balance ?
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Meanwhile, with its future hanging in the balance , Fokker is starting to feel the pinch.
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His career, much more than mine, hangs in the balance .
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That prohibition still persists, and legislation to open the nation's woodlands up to its people hangs in the balance .
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But because public health hangs in the balance , experts are already seeking changes in food policy.
keep
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Because they were walking downhill her limp was making her awkward and she linked arms with him to keep her balance .
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A pitcher throws to different parts of the plate, trying to keep the hitter off balance .
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As the bridge sways, people's feet exert sideways forces on it to keep their balance .
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To keep a balance of atmosphere, excess carbon dioxide needed to be removed by chemical filters.
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The lights changed and the truck pulled off with Chase trying to keep his balance and looking thoroughly bemused.
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I could psych out the captors, and I could put out orders that would frustrate them and keep them off balance .
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You sit on the saddle and try and keep your balance and hold on to the handlebars.
lose
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She nearly lost her balance , and cried out in terror.
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He put his arms around her waist and pulled her so hard she lost her balance .
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If all banks sell securities, they will all lose deposits and balances as their own customers buy securities.
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As Diana closed the door behind her, the plane plunged again, and she almost lost her balance .
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He lost his balance and he and the teapot clattered downstairs.
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Finally I tried from the east, lost my balance , and fell in.
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Dropping the wing, Mungo swung round, losing his balance .
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His mind slipped into some thought of his son, and he lost his balance .
maintain
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Research has suggested that for blood cells, this lipid asymmetry may help to maintain the delicate balance between haemostasis and thrombosis.
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In the years that followed, achievements by one side or the other alternated, maintaining a precarious balance of power.
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Normally it's job is to maintain fluid balance .
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Languages seem to maintain a balance in expressiveness and grammatical complexity over time.
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There was also an environmental objective - to maintain a proper balance between human needs and the natural environment.
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Workers in fishnet organizations must figure out how to maintain this kind of balance .
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It is surely a question of maintaining an appropriate balance , and is not something that can be taken for granted.
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A Dole presidency would probably maintain the current balance or add to the Congress-limiting majority.
pay
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But pay off the balance right away.
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Tell the office that a way must be found to pay the balance of slightly less than £10,000.
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If you pay the balance in full you come out ahead.
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The original mortgage was paid off and the balance invested in the business.
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If the guests take the room, they pay only the balance .
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They will usually ask you to pay off the balance seven days after the statement date.
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You must pay the balance at least 8 weeks before departure.
provide
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BankTrak is included to provide daily balance reporting, together with transaction details direct to a compatible computer on the customer's premises.
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As two opposite kinds of people, when they became partners, their very differences provided the right balance for success.
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This would provide the balance of the figure in cell 6/33.
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Each reader contains two pages of activities which provide a balance of structural and communicative activities.
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You can buy a proprietary mix that will provide end residues that balance reasonably well - eventually.
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Each one provides the balance at the year end for the defined area.
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On the other side of the terrace a raised bed provides visual balance and accommodates a specimen juniper and winter flowering heathers.
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Maud attributes some 15% of this increase to organic growth, with acquisitions providing the balance .
recover
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He stumbled near the exit from the tower, recovered his balance .
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It is assisted by conscious intention on our part to recover balance and vibrant health.
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With commendable promptitude, he caught Harrison by the collar and held him firmly, while Agnes and Dotty recovered their balance .
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Once she stumbled and nearly fell headlong, but somehow she recovered her balance and tore on.
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Yussuf tried to recover his balance , tried to jump, but the wall collapsed too fast.
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Aldaniti recovered his balance and sped on towards the second.
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But he recovered his balance in a stride and made off for the water jump.
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But she recovered her balance and carried on.
redress
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By establishing formal links with the universities, and international specialists, they hope to redress the balance .
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If there is any point at all to democratic government it is, surely, to redress the balance in our favour.
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These groupings within the general community of women need special attention to redress the balance of lack of opportunity.
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A tax on films helps redress the balance .
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In the future, many salty foods will use mixtures of potassium chloride to redress the balance .
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However, our recent spate of hot summers and mild winters seems to be redressing the balance somewhat.
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He sees the new blood scheme as one way to redress the balance against over-represented subjects like particle physics.
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Danger lies only where too much zeal is applied to redressing the cultural balance .
regain
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Zulei hopped backwards, trying to regain her balance , her mouth a rictus of hate.
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Then investors regained their balance , and the market resumed its upward climb.
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Evelyn just managed to regain her balance and prevent herself from falling out.
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The emerging organizational territory has neither guidebooks nor guideposts to help employees acquire or regain a sense of balance with their environment.
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He rocked for a moment on the edge, his arms circling wildly, desperately trying to regain his balance .
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When she regained her balance and looked around he - if indeed it had been he - had vanished.
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As he straightened up and regained his balance a spasm of pain shot through his left thigh.
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In the second her father took to regain his balance she smashed the glass and grabbed one of them.
restore
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Night Cream a rich blend to restore moisture balance while you sleep.
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In fact, the capacity of forests to increase in order to restore carbon balances has been called into question.
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Retributive punishment restores the balance by cancelling out this advantage with a commensurate disadvantage.
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Definite and energetic steps must be taken in other directions to restore the balance of our national economic life ....
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When a surgeon destroys overactive cells in the globus pallidum, he restores balance to the system, said Grossman.
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It is quite another thing to assess how out of balance the individual is and how to set about restoring the balance.
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We are beginning to see significant signs of restoring a balance to this overemphasis on left-brain skills.
shift
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Clearly the review might shift this balance making pensions the obvious target.
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A series of cases in 1988 shifted the balance .
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That decision shifted the balance of power away from Wall Street specialists.
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The reason was that none of these reforms shifted the balance of power within the social structure of the village.
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Conversely, an electricity tax that makes robots more expensive would shift the balance in the other direction, back toward labor.
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This shifts the balance of power towards leasing companies and vehicle hire groups.
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Finally, the reforms aimed to shift the balance of power in determining use of resources from hospital doctors to general practitioners.
strike
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Melvyn Tan strikes an admirable balance between the classical and romantic in the young composer's make-up.
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Barnett, however, has been able to strike a rare balance as a broadcaster.
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The courts have to try to strike a balance between the two.
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The problem of the Volunteer is to strike a balance .
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The problem is to know how to strike the right balance .
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The Amendment, itself, strikes the proper balance between federal and state authority.
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He decided to strike a balance .
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My favorite here was the Redcat Amber, which struck a nice balance between the pale and the swarthy.
throw
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And despite what he'd said, less a token of affection than a means of throwing her off balance .
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But before Adamowski could get his campaign under way, Daley threw him off balance by going on the offensive.
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It offered no resistance and Urquhart was almost thrown off balance when it slipped free.
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Waking up to that penetrating ice-blue gaze was enough to throw anyone off balance for the rest of the day.
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But the trucks are unwieldy, easily thrown off balance .
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She has a problem with some little gland or other, which can throw her right off balance .
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The movement threw him off balance .
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Each time the driver braked or accelerated violently she was thrown off balance , barking her shins on various pieces of luggage.
tilt
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The government clearly wished to tilt the balance in favour of opting out.
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The latter will always heavily tilt the balance towards finally meeting one's obligations to the employer.
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It is surely time to re-cast the law on employee inventions to tilt the balance away from the employer.
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Alongside his Foxley Wood decision he published new planning guidance which tilted the general balance against giving permission for house-building.
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Suppose I decide because of this to tilt the balance in all those cases in favour of its solution.
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All these chores, if efficiently organized, can tilt the balance in a close-run contest.
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Crisis situations invariably tend to tilt the balance of power in favour of the president at the expense of congress.
tip
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The nature of his choice or the terms in which it is expressed may then tip the balance .
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Perhaps remorse at having joined it had tipped the balance of Fred's mind.
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Teachers may try to tip the balance about this Englishness.
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What tipped the balance against that was my continuing dreadful performance in the classroom.
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The thought or feeling tipped the balance , made the difference.
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Vigorous efforts were made to tip the balance more in favour of those with greater needs.
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Chernobyl had further tipped the balance .
upset
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The proposed law would upset that balance in favor of property owners.
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The finish is also more permanent and does not upset the float's balance .
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She has upset the natural balance of the world, including the ecology of Earth and Heaven.
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In general landowners were expected to work the land and to increase productivity, but not to upset the ecological balance .
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Critics say the law upsets the balance of power by delegating legislative authority to the executive branch.
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The chemicals upset the balance of the environment and killed not only the whitefly but also other wildlife including the bumble bee.
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They upset the delicate balance of interests on which high organizational performance is so often based.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
balanced budget
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And this probably explains why the balanced budget amendment to the Constitution seemed to be in trouble last week.
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Any balanced budget amendment has to have some exceptions and some implementation provisions.
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His proposals disappeared in the fight over a balanced budget.
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In his speech, Dole specifically endorsed only one of them, an amendment mandating a balanced budget.
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One of the earliest votes of the Congress is expected to be on a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget.
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Previous efforts to mandate term limits and balanced budgets and to outlaw flag-burning failed in Congress.
checks and balances
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Checks and balances required an alert and informed populace.
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A triangle is an efficient system of emotional checks and balances, allowing chil-dren to work out complicated feelings without volatile outbursts.
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If the new telecommunications age brings unmediated democracy, what will happen to our carefully contrived constitutional system of checks and balances?
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Rugby has evolved as a game of checks and balances.
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Swings and roundabouts, checks and balances: who'd be a research engineer?
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The exchange's rules are subject to the general statutory checks and balances associated with commercial contracts.
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The presidential system offers checks and balances but does not ensure consistency between legislation and execution.
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They saw their first glimpse of the earth as a complex system with checks and balances, inputs and outputs.
hang in the balance
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World leaders are meeting to discuss the situation, with peace in the region hanging in the balance.
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But because public health hangs in the balance, experts are already seeking changes in food policy.
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His career, much more than mine, hangs in the balance.
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Meanwhile, with its future hanging in the balance, Fokker is starting to feel the pinch.
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That prohibition still persists, and legislation to open the nation's woodlands up to its people hangs in the balance.
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The future of the refuge still hangs in the balance.
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The possibility of a nuclear exchange continued to hang in the balance.
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Which Minister is the pits with the miners whose livelihoods now hang in the balance?
strike a balance (between sth)
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Eastin is trying to strike a balance between family life and her work.
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Accounts receivable management requires striking a balance between the cost of extending credit and the benefit received from extending credit.
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Effective organizations will strike a balance that allows them not only to accept uncertainty but to take advantage of it.
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He decided to strike a balance.
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How they strike a balance between the two is at the heart of corporate strategy.
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In the staffroom, they talk of trying to strike a balance between children seeing teachers as friends, and being over-familiar.
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No one can insure against all eventualities and so you strike a balance between the re- and pro- active aspects of your work.
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The courts have to try to strike a balance between the two.
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The problem of the Volunteer is to strike a balance.
tip the balance/scales
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Your support tipped the balance in our favor.
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I went to see Hoppy for a checkup and I tip the scales at exactly eighty-six pounds.
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Mr Bates thinks the disappearance of November's protest vote could tip the scales his way.
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Perhaps remorse at having joined it had tipped the balance of Fred's mind.
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Second, the Constitution tips the scales in favor of the individual over the state in highly personal matters.
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Tall and stately, fairly bursting from her corset, she sometimes tipped the scales at over 200 pounds.
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They viewed the Soviet moves as an effort to tip the scales against the West.
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Thus can a minuscule particle tip the scales one way or another.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A walking stick is good for balance on rough trails.
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Her practicality acts as a balance to this wild inventiveness.
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Migration plays a crucial role in maintaining the balance between population and resources.
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Riding a bike helps develop a child's sense of balance .
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Take care to achieve a balance between career and home life.
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The biological balance is upset by over-intensive farming.
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When dealing with his staff, Mr Allen somehow managed to strike the right balance between being sympathetic and businesslike.
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You need a great sense of balance to be an acrobat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Does the school have the right balance of ages, abilities and genders?
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Finding the right balance between cooperation and competition has been the goal and bane of Western politics for centuries.
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Meanwhile, with its future hanging in the balance , Fokker is starting to feel the pinch.
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On balance , however, Gramm should still win.
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The sense of balance is put at peril.
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The show hinges on this excruciating balance , hanging on Pennington's earnest performance.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
delicately
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The issue is so delicately balanced that goal difference could even decide who goes up.
evenly
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The live recording shows few signs of an audience present and is evenly balanced between voices and orchestra.
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Ipswich scored 2/5, with one game, which is evenly balanced , to be adjudicated.
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The scales can be fairly evenly balanced .
finely
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Ferndown consolidated as the game progressed and the game was very finely balanced .
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Please try not to upset or destroy this finely balanced mechanism or the building blocks will collapse like a row of dominoes.
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Arguments over toxicity and cost-benefit are finely balanced .
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The issues are finely balanced and there is no simple answer to the question.
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But in practice the prognosis is finely balanced .
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There is concern about the law in this area and I believe that the arguments on it are finely balanced .
perfectly
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Natasha gazed at her with an expression in which caution and disdain were perfectly balanced .
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You rarely see that people are perfectly balanced on these.
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A rudderless boat must be perfectly balanced if it is to follow a straight course.
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It is perfectly balanced to satisfy a growing appetite.
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Balancing basic food ingredients Grass is not perfectly balanced for all types of horses all year round either.
precariously
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A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
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Furthermore, he was precariously balanced and might fall.
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Ice Cube is precariously balanced between entertainment and polemic.
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The guys tapped on their heels, balanced precariously and even attempted a few body flips.
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She balanced precariously with one foot on each.
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This leaves him precariously balancing his highbrow and lowbrow selves.
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The first carries the dual carriageway A4041 with a street light balanced precariously above the centre of the canal.
well
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Heredity, in Rose's case, had never been well balanced by environment.
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Make sure they are well balanced and will not slip off.
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The board should balance well in this position.
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Pommery wines are well balanced and of high quality.
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Print quality was very good, with crisp, sharp text and well balanced colour graphics.
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The yacht tracked accurately and was well balanced on all points.
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Each part of the production system is now well balanced and the new computer controlled lines have improved quality.
■ NOUN
account
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But during the strike, owners and executives saw little reason to balance accounts .
books
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Mr Lamont declared the Tories stuck to their election pledges but he faces immense pressure to balance the books .
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Nature always balances her books , and Jupiter had lost exactly as much momentum as Discovery had gained.
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Jobs threat: Five teachers at York's Lowfield School could face redundancy unless the opted-out school can balance its books .
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All supply people dreamed of a way to balance the books once and for all-without all that trading and shuffling.
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Voice over Derby had one more chance to balance the books but Paul Kitson wasted a glorious opportunity by blasting wide.
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How has it balanced its books with the rest of the world?
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But the council had to balance its books , he said.
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As treasurer of the R.A.D.D., he once balanced the books , which had a serious deficit, with a handsome donation.
budget
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The Gladstonian principle that public sector budgets should be balanced - increased expenditure met by increased taxes - was the accepted rule.
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The budget was never balanced during the depression.
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The Labour Cabinet was, it is clear, united in its view that the budget had to be balanced .
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Negotiations on a seven-year budget balancing plan broke off temporarily on Tuesday.
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If the budget is actually balanced because of Clinton, his comparative stature in the annals of history will grow only modestly.
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The bipartisan Concord Coalition, a Washington-based interest group on budget balancing issues, has run newspaper ads against the Dole plan.
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If government budgets are balanced , then the G term is zero and X-M must equal S-I.
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Taking the long view of things, Clinton insists his budget plan would assure balanced budgets well into the next century.
demand
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For such organizations it is a matter of balancing the demands for their services against the limited resources available.
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Steering requires people who see the entire universe of issues and possibilities and can balance competing demands for resources.
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Planning can balance demand and supply ex ante rather than ex post, so avoiding substantial waste of resources. 4.
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For others, it may be more difficult to balance the often competing demands of work and home.
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To balance demand against available resources is a continuing function of health service management intra-contractually and extra-contractually.
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This was a highly effective marriage of convenience, helping to balance the demand for electricity.
diet
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Bob's idea of a balanced diet left something to be desired.
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The women featured in the article are reducing their risk of chronic disease by exercising and by eating a balanced diet .
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A balanced read-aloud diet gives our children an appreciation for the sounds and shapes and purposes of many different kinds of texts.
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In fact, for some people, caffeine may actually make it harder to eat a balanced , healthy diet .
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The first slide showed a normal-size mouse eating a balanced diet of lab food pellets.
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A balanced diet and daily physical exercise are the keys to a healthy lifestyle.
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Fried bologna for Dooley with double mustard, and no sermons about a balanced diet , please.
need
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Any decisions must balance the needs and abilities of users with the type and quality of information to held in the database.
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Congress tried to write federal law by balancing needs of privacy advocates and the medical industry.
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I wanted to confess to her once but balanced that against the need to be loved by her.
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Hope is about the unknown and prospects, about balancing our needs for security with the dangers of freedom.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
balanced budget
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And this probably explains why the balanced budget amendment to the Constitution seemed to be in trouble last week.
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Any balanced budget amendment has to have some exceptions and some implementation provisions.
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His proposals disappeared in the fight over a balanced budget.
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In his speech, Dole specifically endorsed only one of them, an amendment mandating a balanced budget.
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One of the earliest votes of the Congress is expected to be on a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget.
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Previous efforts to mandate term limits and balanced budgets and to outlaw flag-burning failed in Congress.
balancing/juggling act
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For today's time-stressed parents, each day becomes a juggling act .
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But all face an awkward balancing act .
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But it's a crucial balancing act where you have to prioritise on a daily basis.
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Neither half of that balancing act has yet met with success.
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Now that balancing act has become more precarious than ever.
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Such a balancing act could keep his government in being only by increasing his own reputation for lack of principle.
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The question humankind must ask is whether the balancing act the president suggests is enough to stave off global devastation.
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The question now facing voters is which approach is likely to achieve the best balancing act .
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Using political power to reduce market inequalities requires a high-wire balancing act .
checks and balances
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Checks and balances required an alert and informed populace.
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A triangle is an efficient system of emotional checks and balances, allowing chil-dren to work out complicated feelings without volatile outbursts.
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If the new telecommunications age brings unmediated democracy, what will happen to our carefully contrived constitutional system of checks and balances?
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Rugby has evolved as a game of checks and balances.
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Swings and roundabouts, checks and balances: who'd be a research engineer?
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The exchange's rules are subject to the general statutory checks and balances associated with commercial contracts.
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The presidential system offers checks and balances but does not ensure consistency between legislation and execution.
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They saw their first glimpse of the earth as a complex system with checks and balances, inputs and outputs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Balancing awkwardly on one leg, he lowered himself into his wheelchair.
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Balancing my cup of coffee in one hand, I managed to open the door.
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An angel was balancing precariously on top of the Christmas tree.
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As a parent trying to balance home and career, it's very difficult to find time for a social life.
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His favourite party trick is balancing tin cans on his head.
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Its cranberry tartness is balanced with just a hint of sweetness.
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No government so far has been able to balance the number of jobs available with the number of people out of work.
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The beam is very narrow - you may find it difficult to balance .
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They asked state officials to balance giving jobs to men and women.
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We tried to balance the aerial on top of the TV set, but it kept falling over.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He has, in addition, hatched his own solution to the challenge of balancing love and work.
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Now, at twenty-two, I was well aware that stewardess work balanced on the edge of social respectability.
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With flash, burning is still required to balance a print.