Example sentences of "that on balance " in BNC.
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| 1 | The burden of many studies , subject to such qualifications , is that on balance political factors like party or ideology or electoral competitiveness do not matter much , compared to a country 's level of economic development . |
| 2 | The House of Commons Select Committee which examined the operation of the legislation concluded that on balance the definitions should remain as they are , although better guidance for LEAs would be desirable . |
| 3 | The Company , from its very first voyage , exported bullion rather than English products and , when economists complained that this would lead to a loss of bullion which would cause deflation and depression in England , the Company replied that it exported between 50 and 90 per cent of its pepper to countries in northern Europe which paid four or five times as much silver as the Company paid in India , so that on balance its activities substantially increased the amount of bullion in the country . |
| 4 | Opinion in Washington therefore moved to the conclusion that on balance it would be best to reduce American involvement in Korea and to request the UN to assist in achieving an acceptable solution . |
| 5 | In all the circumstances of this case I have come to the conclusion that on balance the children 's interests are better served by their being allowed to remain in England pending a determination by the High Court , in the exercise of its wardship jurisdiction , as to their future and whether it be in England or Australia . |
| 6 | The implication of this , however , is that directors should be the sole arbiters of the appropriateness of their working methods ; the suggestion that ‘ rational shareholders would not have it otherwise … for their welfare is maximised by decisions that yield the highest profits net of the costs of gathering information and making the decision ’ , adds nothing beyond the empirically unsupported assertion that on balance , if left alone , managements will make decisions in the most cost-effective way . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , while Reece and Cool feel that on balance they are not , Anthony , Dearden and Bedford ( 1984 , p. 362 ) continue to insist that their experience tells them that they are , and Hayes and Garvin ( 1982 ) obviously agree . |
| 8 | Some investigations conclude that on balance the existence of a large firm is actually in the public interest . |
| 9 | The Secretary of State has argued today that at least part of the money saved has been spent on other benefits and he has implied that on balance , people are no worse off — a familiar argument . |
| 10 | I 'm sure you know that the Bank of England the Bank of England have made a very strong point that on balance there should be more non-executive directors than executive directors in the company and , er it is felt very strongly that to get a good mix of non-executive directors really does protect the shareholders ' interests and , er I think we 're very much following the lead , er , of the Bank of , of England , erm , in this particular respect . |
| 11 | But at the end of the day er my view is that on balance there is a case for this application to go forward . |
| 12 | We think that on balance we have er the majority of the support of the public at large within Greater York , that this is the strategic er approach that is necessary for Greater York , it 's necessary to protect the greenbelt and it 's necessary to protect communities and villages er in and around erm Greater York . |
| 13 | McFarlane argued that on balance England did not lose from the war , and if one thinks in strict cash terms , the evidence supports him . |
| 14 | It says , The report concludes that on balance , the most appropriate area of research for a new settlement Greater York is the corridor along the A sixty four T on the North East of York . |
| 15 | there and perhaps coming on to the Residents ' Association point that made in their proof , that our forecasts actually show that on balance , er er there would be an increase in flow in fact on the on that route as it approaches the A sixty one . |
| 16 | The figures that we 've produced show that on balance er it it 's about a neutral effect on Road er through the residential area because of this er reductions due to traffic going out to join the relief road rather than joining the A sixty one . |
| 17 | A convention exists when people follow certain rules or maxims for reasons that essentially include their expectation that others will follow the same rules or maxims , and they will follow rules for that reason when they believe that on balance having some settled rule is more important than having any particular rule . |