Or, this year, the ways in which religious liberty (both real and imagined) is balanced against civil rights.
The Great Invisible is something of a marvel—a balanced, unabridged portrait of life before and after the BP disaster.
She now chronicles her recovery in her re-branded site called The balanced Blonde.
That finding is a direct reflection of the original premise behind Roger Ailes pitching Fox News as “far and balanced.”
In the interest of balanced journalism, I move up one car to experience a fresh landscape.
The Road-Runner balanced on his slender legs and cocked his head trailwise.
There were other and still other banners, in velvet or in satin, balanced at the end of gilded batons.
I had balanced a little hitherto between the epicier and the Vicomte.
She took out two little hats, and balanced them on either hand.
He screamed and kicked over the chair his foot was balanced on.
early 13c., "apparatus for weighing," from Old French balance (12c.) "balance, scales for weighing," also in the figurative sense; from Medieval Latin bilancia, from Late Latin bilanx, from Latin (libra) bilanx "(scale) having two pans," possibly from Latin bis "twice" + lanx "dish, plate, scale of a balance." The accounting sense is from 1580s; the meaning "general harmony between parts" is from 1732; sense of "physical equipoise" is from 1660s. Balance of power in the geopolitical sense is from 1701. Many figurative uses are from Middle English image of the scales in the hands of personified Justice, Fortune, Fate, etc.; e.g. hang in the balance (late 14c.).
1570s, "be equal with," from balance (n.). Meaning "bring or keep in equilibrium" is from 1630s; that of "keep oneself in equilibrium" is from 1833. Of accounts, from 1580s. Related: Balanced; balancing. Balanced meal, diet, etc. is from 1908.
balance bal·ance (bāl'əns)
n.
A weighing device, especially one consisting of a rigid beam horizontally suspended by a low-friction support at its center, with identical weighing pans hung at either end, one of which holds an unknown weight while the effective weight in the other is increased by known amounts until the beam is level and motionless.
A state of bodily equilibrium.
The difference in magnitude between opposing forces or influences, such as for bodily parts or organs.
Equality of mass and net electric charge of reacting species on each side of a chemical equation.
