The phrase "a difficult balance between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the challenge of finding a middle ground or compromise between two opposing ideas, factors, or interests.
Example: "The company is trying to maintain a difficult balance between profitability and employee satisfaction."
Alternatives: "a challenging equilibrium between" or "a tough compromise between".
"It's a difficult balance between melodrama and reality," he said.
"This requires a difficult balance between growth and reform.
Management of responsive research is a difficult balance between order and chaos.
I missed my parents very much when they were away on tour; it's a difficult balance between work and family.
The paper concludes with the assessment of the approach, pointing to a difficult balance between emergent and collective dimensions of strategy process with its formal, structured facets.
Indian students maintain a difficult balance between young, forward-thinking individualism and observing the more traditional social normsof strict family and generational structures.
Still, with nonliteral communication doing most of the work, it's a difficult balance to strike between keeping an audience on narrative track and burdening it with redundance, which is to say that the element of the show that doesn't work is the script.
London's Deputy Mayor Kit Malthouse said officers had a "difficult balance" to strike between policing the main demonstration and unrelated incidents of violence including attacks by anarchist groups.
But London's deputy mayor Kit Malthouse said officers had a "difficult balance" to strike between policing the main demonstration and unrelated incidents of violence including attacks by anarchist groups.
There was a difficult balance to strike between increasingly invasive technologies (including CRT and International Classification of Diseases (ICD)) and palliative care planning underpinned by quality of life considerations.
He said: "There is a difficult balance to be struck between meeting that objective and taking appropriate account of shareholder and public concern in the UK about the level of executive pay.
