appropriate balance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofappropriateandbalance
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appropriate
adjective
uk/əˈprəʊ.pri.ət/us/əˈproʊ.pri.ət/
suitable or right for a particular situation ...
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balance
noun
uk/ˈbæl.əns/us/ˈbæl.əns/
a state where things are of equal weight ...
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(Definition ofappropriateandbalancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofappropriate balance
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The solidification of such a nationalist elite required the maintenance of anappropriatebalanceamong the social orders.
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The challenge is to determine theappropriatebalancebetween the health of resources and ecosystems and the health and quality of human life.
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The issue is not therefore about responsibility versus irresponsibility but about the mostappropriatebalancebetween individual responsibility and collective responsibility.
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Depending on how a model is to be used, the modeller has to decide on the mostappropriatebalancebetween these characteristics.
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Anappropriatebalanceneeds to be developed between policies aiming at inter-fuel substitution and policies seeking to ameliorate the negative consequences of woodfuel.
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Rather, it is a matter of striking anappropriatebalance, based on the expertise of the domain experts and the development team.
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If anappropriatebalancecan be found, this will result in a net gain in utility.
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This article provides arguments and evidence with which to continue the debate about the mostappropriatebalancebetween collective and individual planning.
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A good theory is one that achieves theappropriatebalancebetween comprehensiveness and parsimony while stimulating theoretical exploration.
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Twenty-two subjects were selected to provide anappropriatebalanceof gender, age, and target language.
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In all the cases studied we have verified that there is anappropriatebalanceof injected and dissipated power.
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Theappropriatebalancebetween both pathways resulted in normally conducted movements.
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Based on this assumption, the paper develops wellknown conservation principles for ensuring anappropriatebalancebetween ecosystems health and quality of human life.
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Webb's discussion of abstraction provides some helpful guidelines for arriving at anappropriatebalance.
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Increasingly too, the focus has been on what theappropriatebalancebetween the state and the individual might be in terms of financing care in old age.
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The design policy agreed was to reduce the annual energy consumption for environmental control to the minimum, by anappropriatebalanceof passive solar energy, daylight, and insulation.
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The programmes should have anappropriatebalancebetween clinical service and academic endeavours, and should encourage the trainees to become dedicated to continuous education and teaching.
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I have argued elsewhere that the common law's use of the reasonable person tests is an attractive way of striking theappropriatebalancebetween liberty and security.
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Within these recommendations, an overarching theme was their desire for communications that found anappropriatebalancebetween "hope" and "honesty" through individualizing information, guiding interpretation, and facilitating uncertainty management.
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One of the main issues in our discussion was to find anappropriatebalancebetween the flexible and effective implementation of our goals.
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