A more balanced definition of a cynic, courtesy of the trusty Oxford English Dictionary, is someone who is "distrustful or incredulous of human goodness and sincerity", sceptical of human merit, often mocking or sarcastic.
This led to a fairly balanced definition between different types of activities, policy instruments and technological innovations, without emphasizing any in particular, to enable use of FSSIM for different study objectives.
One was his definition of a balanced meal: "An Italian hero cut in half".
"What we've offered meets the definition of a balanced approach, but the president is not there yet," Mr. Boehner said last December.
"What we've offered meets the definition of a balanced approach, but the president is not there yet," Mr. Boehner said Tuesday.
The White House has maintained that its definition of achieving a "balanced" budget is through a combination of spending cuts and revenues raisers.
Equilibrium apparently has no creative energies or powers, and so entropy could do little or nothing but come to a balanced or settled condition (as, by definition, energy is not available to do work by entropy).
Even though 49 states mandate a balanced budget, either constitutionally or statutorily, there is no uniform definition of a balanced budget, and accounting trickery has allowed states to avoid paying for their future obligations.
The "balance" definition proposed in this paper includes a provision that the presentation of the "do nothing" option may be necessary for a balanced PtDA.
As for why Vermont has never passed a law or amended its Constitution to require a balanced budget — something every other state has done, though some are looser than others in their definition of "balanced" — even the state archivist, Gregory Sanford, said he had no clue.
