overall balance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoverallandbalance
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overall
adverb[before noun]
adjective
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈrɔːl/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈɑːl/
in general rather than in particular, or including all the people or things in a particular group ...
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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 ofoverallandbalancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Educators and teachers should be flexible enough to adjust the proportions accordingly to different situations but without damaging theoverallbalance.
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He was obviously keen to ensure his upper hand in theoverallbalanceof military operations.
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One could then, if one so wished, characterize theoverallbalanceof these local norms as a state of 'complex equality'.
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Reforms within social insurance may well affect theoverallbalancebetween these two institutional realms.
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Their expectations concerning theoverallbalanceof a call-and-response increased as the lesson progressed, and they listened carefully to their work as it developed.
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Since then, the allocation of posts has been based on the factional bosses' recommendations, as well as theoverallbalanceof factional sizes.
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Perhaps the theist can suggest that theoverallbalanceof good and evil is in favour of the former when measured across all worlds.
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Hannah developed the connection between feet andoverallbalancethrough the idea of being grounded.
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It also comes out clearly that the various political groups might have different views on thisoverallbalance.
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We will need to strike anoverallbalancein order to reach agreement.
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We will only make such a gesture, should this prove necessary, in the context of anoverallbalance, which has not yet been fully achieved.
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Clearly, the budget for external actions has yet to find a reasonableoverallbalance.
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Theoverallbalancemust be right for the protection of our judiciary as well as the protection of democracy.
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There has been a considerable improvement so far this year in theoverallbalance.
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The achievement of anoverallbalancein the concluding months, meant many achievements of lasing value to this country and those with whom we trade.
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The pleasure which our people would derive from being inoverallbalance, would be severely tempered if that occurred.
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At the same time, we must at least eliminate the deficit in ouroverallbalanceof payments.
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We linked into that currency which represents less than half ouroverallbalanceof trade.
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What is clear is that, as things stand, theoverallbalanceis unfavourable, and more harm than good is being done.
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