delicate balance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdelicateandbalance
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delicate
adjective
uk/ˈdel.ɪ.kət/us/ˈdel.ə.kət/
needing careful treatment, especially because ...
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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 ofdelicateandbalancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We suggest that normal neural and cognitive development requires adelicatebalancebetween specialization and integration.
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The text thus manifests adelicatebalancebetween conflicting concerns.
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As a matter of public policy, adelicatebalancewas sought between security and liability as these alternately freed and constrained behavior.
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Nearly 250 years ago, the physiocrats' tableau economique portrayed an economy indelicatebalanceas expenditures and products coursed through the system.
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Thus, we can strike adelicatebalancebetween nonlinearity and dispersion for a certain range of parameters to obtain a soliton solution given by (23).
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Finite time blow-up involves adelicatebalancebetween the spatial and temporal derivatives and the reaction terms driving the blow-up.
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However, it is in adjudicating adelicatebalancebetween seemingly opposed individual rights and social welfare, that the philosophical challenge is at its greatest.
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This seems to involve a verydelicatebalancebetween too much and too little resource demand.
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Clearly, suchdelicatebalanceof interactions (ion-peptide versus peptide-peptide) is imperfectly represented by current non-polarizable force fields.
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The potential subject's capacity to give consent to participate in research is key to thedelicatebalancebetween these two competing concerns.
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These leukocytes are thought to sustain thedelicatebalancebetween protecting the developing embryo/fetus and tolerating its hemiallogeneic tissues.
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Adelicatebalanceis required among various parameters in order to satisfy these conflicting requirements simultaneously.
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This process of bone resorption followed by formation is adelicatebalancebetween two cell types, the osteoclast and the osteoblast.
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However, there is adelicatebalancebetween reducing computational complexity and preserving meaningful variance in the data.
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Their previous calculations were shown to have worked, and simple self-interest means they should continue to operate on the basis of the samedelicatebalance.
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The popular writings on vision were directed to several different audiences, and, as such, manifest adelicatebalancebetween conflicting agendas.
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It is a complex, multilayered piece of writing, directed to several audiences, manifesting adelicatebalancebetween conflicting agendas.
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To fashion a new persona requires adelicatebalancebetween old and new cultural forms.
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In this way thedelicatebalancebetween humanistic and scientific care, a complex good at best, is thrown away.
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Increase in ellipticity results in large oscillatory self-focusing0 defocusing behavior which emanates disturbeddelicatebalancebetween nonlinear term and diffraction term.
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