Collocations withbalance
These are words often used in combination withbalance.
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affect balance
The groups understood that some medications may cause dizziness or affect balance.
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appropriate balance
The solidification of such a nationalist elite required the maintenance of an appropriate balance among the social orders.
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balance of payment
Globalization enables the fast movement of money between countries, resulting in frequent balance of payment crises and unstable domestic economic performance.
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balance shaft
The 60 degree vee-angle eliminates the need for a balance shaft, improving refinement while reducing mechanical complexity.
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better balance
There needs to be a better balance between technology push and application-demand pull.
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careful balance
Each individual chapter offers, however, a generously informative and insightful analysis, making a careful balance between close reading and sociohistorical contextualization.
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consolidated balance
It could not happen because they all worked with consolidated balance sheets.
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conventional balance
If it is, logically we should be working towards a conventional balance to prevent a limited conventional war.
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delicate balance
We suggest that normal neural and cognitive development requires a delicate balance between specialization and integration.
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dynamic balance
Circulating soluble transferrin receptors can be measured by radioimmunoassay and are in a dynamic balance with the bound receptors.
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ecological balance
The phrase ' ' ecological balance ' ' is certainly pertinent.
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electrolyte balance
The commonest urgent problems were related to problems with fluid and electrolyte balance and with medication.
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energy balance
The turbulence energy balance is examined, including the separate effects of vertical diffusion of pressure and local kinetic energy.
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equitable balance
I believe that we have struck an equitable balance.
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external balance
Disinflation remained the major goal, but external balance and the level of foreign exchange reserves increased their importance as policy constraints.
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fiscal balance
Noticeably, improving the fiscal balance by cutting public expenditures or by means of a sales tax reform both enhance economic growth and conservation of forests.
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fluid balance
In older patients with disturbed fluid balance homeostasis, this can be problematic as, often, intravascular volume is low.
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fragile balance
This is compatible with how interviewees explained the fragile balance between drawing conclusions about the strength of the evidence and defining what should be done with findings.
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gender balance
A better gender balance was achieved in the second survey, although the particularly high number of single-male households continued to skew this figure substantially.
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global balance
Only in this way can we begin to get the marine ecology in some sort of global balance.
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healthy balance
All market managers are concerned with managing vendor and customer expectations to maintain a healthy balance.
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hormonal balance
Possibly there is less mucorrhea in women whose hormonal balance tends towards androgens or progesterone.
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ideal balance
The notion of flow defines the so-called 'optimal experience' as a situation in which people obtain an ideal balance between skills and challenges.
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improved balance
Trials that focused on intermediate outcomes such as improved balance or strength rather than reduction in falls rate or numbers of fallers, were not included.
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improving balance
If patients can rise from their chairs and walk a little, then useful work for maintaining locomotor function and improving balance can be done safely.
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minimum balance
The amendment would make the minimum balance £3,000, whether for a single person or a married couple.
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net balance
Yet, the net balance of contributions made and benefit entitlements accrued is no longer unambiguously positive.
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optimal balance
So it is not sufficient to have a single set of realisations which represent an optimal balance between distinctiveness, effort and number of contrasts.
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outstanding balance
Our assumptions for both regular repayments and repayments of the whole outstanding balance were £311 million for 1982–83 and are £430 million for 1983–84.
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overall balance
Educators and teachers should be flexible enough to adjust the proportions accordingly to different situations but without damaging the overall balance.
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perfect balance
If the three actors are equally influential, policy will express a perfect balance among their goals.
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precarious balance
This extra freedom upsets the precarious balance that can exist in two dimensions.
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principal balance
The unpaid accrued interest is then capitalized monthly into the outstanding principal balance.
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proper balance
Apart from the convergence requirement, the key to efficiency is a proper balance of global and local search.
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reasonable balance
Like everything else in life, it is a balance - and determining a reasonable balance takes constant effort and attention.
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regional balance
We are talking about quality, regional balance and access for old and disabled people.
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relative balance
However, the purpose of the testing must be considered when determining the relative balance of sensitivity and specificity.
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remaining balance
She made this her number one priority for the remaining balance of her life.
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right balance
This might require us to strike a right balance between the agent and someone else.
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sense of balance
This sense of balance is what makes his contrapuntal realisation rhetorically elegant.
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strategic balance
The most significant fault was the failure to appreciate the cosmic alteration in the strategic balance at sea.
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sustainable balance
The aim is to bring the commissioners' assets and liabilities into a more sustainable balance.
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unpaid balance
If the debtor had paid £79, the unpaid balance of the total price would be £36 (£115 minus £79).
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