Example sentences of "the balance of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exhibition introduces both Hindu and Buddhist art and explains the balance of goddesses and gods , with an emphasis on Shiva and Vishnu , gods of special importance to the Khmer kings . |
| 2 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 3 | On the basis of their needs assessment , which includes consultation with consumer groups and GPs , purchasing authorities adjust their priorities in terms of the balance of resources which should be devoted to particular care groups , and the balance between health promotion , prevention , treatment and care . |
| 4 | The maximalist interpretation claims that the subjects accept that they should obey even if their personal belief is that the balance of reasons on the merits is against performing the required act . |
| 5 | For an authority is legitimate only if there are sufficient reasons to accept it , i.e. sufficient reasons to follow its directives regardless of the balance of reasons on the merits of such action . |
| 6 | Inasmuch as that additional reason may tip the balance one can perhaps over-dramatize the situation by saying that an authoritative requirement is a reason to act against the balance of reasons on the merits of the case . |
| 7 | The fact that it will rain tomorrow , for example , may mean that I should not go to London , even though the balance of reasons on the merits of my going ( i.e. all the reasons pro and con but the rain ) suggest that I should go . |
| 8 | Notice that a dependent reason is not one which does in fact reflect the balance of reasons on which it depends : it is one which is meant to do so . |
| 9 | In agreeing to obey his decision they agreed to follow his judgment of the balance of reasons rather than their own . |
| 10 | The pre-emption thesis will be readily accepted inasmuch as it concerns successful authoritative directives , i.e. those which correctly reflect the balance of reasons on which they depend . |
| 11 | In a somewhat different sense , involving to some extent the balance of rights between generations , the natural environment of human life and more generally the ‘ quality of life ’ , has become a more prominent issue in relation both to economic development and to population growth , through the rapidly expanding activities of ecology movements . |
| 12 | Remember that economists mean two things by efficiency : first , that firms are on the lowest possible cost curve ( absence of slack and waste ) ; and , second , that the balance of activities in the economy is Pareto-efficient : resource reallocation would not increase social welfare . |
| 13 | These weight the balance of responses in each class group in a particular direction , while the actual experience of doing housework is a dimension on which the classes are not divided . |
| 14 | ( Figures for R&D on new processes showed a smaller increase , from a balance of 15 to 18 per cent ; among non-manufacturing companies , the balance of companies spending more on product R&D increased from 10 to 23 per cent . |
| 15 | To go back and see it now might just upset the balance of things at a crucial time , when I am trying to make a very difficult adjustment to my life . |
| 16 | Living is never an exact science and we invariably over reach ourselves and destroy the balance of things . |
| 17 | If one of these groups were to go over to the other side — as the army did in Romania — the balance of forces would be altered . |
| 18 | The balance of forces is between implosive gravitation and explosive nuclear reaction . |
| 19 | And as the opening arguments unfolded in the agricultural college at Cannington ( five miles from Hinkley Point ) , the balance of forces looked distinctly like the traditional contest of David and Goliath . |
| 20 | The ability of Philip Augustus and his immediate successors to translate what had for long been no more than theoretical claims into judicial , and sometimes geographical , reality changed the balance of forces . |
| 21 | Yet , even when this has been allowed for , the balance of forces between the continuing general oral culture and the selective technically transmitted culture has been in at least some respects altered , and with it the nature of the asymmetry between the institutions of cultural production and the broader institutions of general social and cultural reproduction . |
| 22 | Britain , the self-assured Palmerston included , reacted too slowly to shifts in the balance of forces in Europe after 1848 and found her power to influence Continental affairs substantially reduced . |
| 23 | The growing hegemony of state medicine written into the new regulations bore witness to a substantial shift in the balance of forces within the sanitary movement . |
| 24 | The Contagious Diseases Acts not only involved a subtle shift in the balance of forces within moral environmentalism , they also marked a new and more particular specification of sexuality within sanitary discourse . |
| 25 | The balance of forces around sexuality had definitely shifted . |
| 26 | A neutralisation would act to perpetuate the balance of forces that formalised the agreement to neutralise , which would not be in the interest of those parties to the agreement who expect to upgrade their relative involvement in the region over their current level . |
| 27 | In its turn this superiority posed problems of collaboration with the allies — and indeed of the balance of forces between Romans and allies — which occasionally emerge from our sources ( for instance , Livy , 25.33.6 ) , but which no ancient writer analysed , not even Polybius . |
| 28 | We first write the equation for the balance of forces on the Earth itself : where M is the Sun 's mass , m(e) is the mass of the Earth , v is its orbital speed and R is the Earth-Sun separation . |
| 29 | The equation for the balance of forces acting on the gold mass is similar : where the additional term F is the pull from the arm of the balance . |
| 30 | Because of the complexity of the balance of forces represented in the new parliament , the formation of a government was expected to take a number of weeks . |