redress the balance
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The government is due to introduce a Renters' Reform Bill before the summer, which it has said will redress the balance in the market and provide more security for tenants.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2023
However, in a post-pandemic cutthroat job market, some young men feel that attempts to redress the balance have gone too far.
From Reuters • Mar. 18, 2022
Time to redress the balance, reject the norm and celebrate the different.
From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2019
They have said the law needs to be changed to redress the balance of power between regulator and manufacturer.
From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019
He says, waving his fork, that if we continue to overbreed as a species, a new epidemic will arise to redress the balance.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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