16 example sentences using balance.
Balance used in a sentence
Balance in a sentence as a noun
If the balance proves wrong, nothing will stop Congress from pulling back.
Such losses cause tectonic shifts in the balance of power.
Fluffy, nice balance of tasty fillings, not overdone?
The best you can do is balance the harms from pollution with the underlying beneficial activity.
Maybe they prefer not to have debt on their balance sheet, with the legal obligation to pay it back in case they can't do a qualified funding round.
"In appendTo, we’ve constructed our business model to encourage our staff to keep an effective and balanced schedule.
I may not be extravagant, but I don't want to miss any wonderful opportunity because I was too worried about my bank balance.
However, a key point is that the bank holds collateral against the loan, and that collateral has a fair-market value, so the balance sheet is still positive.
Balance in a sentence as a verb
On balance, it is aimed at promoting more effective capital formation by loosening otherwise strict SEC rules when new conditions warrant.
It strikes a classic balance between formal investor protections and real-world practicalities.
Even with the expensive $1 billion warranty extension their balance sheet on pure hardware alone is far, far better than Sony's, which means that MS actually needs to sell fewer games per console to come out ahead in total profit.
The definition of work-life balance is unique for each person, but we’ve built our organization with the features and tools that empowers our employees to customize their interaction with appendTo to their needs.
Things like making sure we have adequate entropy collection on all platforms, especially embedded ones, and adding some conservatism just in case SHA isn't a perfect random function are some of the other things which I am trying to balance as we make changes to /dev/random.
There is a delicate balance between the power of the executive and the power of the courts and trying to chill the telecom's access to the court system by claiming that the company was interfering with an investigation by challenging the NSL is a deeply troubling action.
If she's too tough she's marked as an "angry *****" and will get rejected, if she's not perfectly competent in areas far outside of her job function, she'll be marked as "stupid" and get rejected, etc. etc. Cultivating authority, for a woman, requires a degree of careful presentation and balance that is very hard to do and most men don't have to deal with.
I've worked for some very good women bosses and a women CEO and I admired their ability to find that balance and presentation style that gave them command without them appearing as an "angry *****" or "stupid".I've also worked with some women that couldn't find that balance, they weren't really doing anything a reasonably competent man wouldn't do, but were marked with gendered epithets and eventually driven from their job.
Balance definitions
a state of equilibrium
equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin
See also: proportion proportionality
equality of distribution
See also: equilibrium equipoise counterbalance
something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"
the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22
(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
See also: symmetry symmetricalness correspondence
a weight that balances another weight
See also: counterweight counterbalance counterpoise equalizer equaliser
a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights"
See also: equilibrate equilibrize equilibrise
compute credits and debits of an account
hold or carry in equilibrium
See also: poise
be in equilibrium; "He was balancing on one foot"