Sentence examples for appearance of balance from inspiring English sources

That appearance of balance conceals huge fluctuations of fortune during a series that has seen at least two significant shifts in momentum.

The word "excuse" may have been careless rather than deliberate, but it was characteristic of a tone that undercut any appearance of balance.

The next time the administration insists that chocolate is vanilla, much of the media -- fearing accusations of liberal bias, trying to create the appearance of "balance" -- won't report that the stuff is actually brown; at best they'll report that some Democrats claim that it's brown.

This disdain was perhaps best captured in the Barclays bank scandal in which this venerable institution was found to have manipulated interest rates over a period of time to avoid the appearance of balance sheet weakness.

In the most diplomatic tones possible, I raised the issue of the appearance of balance.

The latter method can lead to the appearance of balance when in fact the preintervention probability of admission differs between groups.

The technique allowed the investment bank to temporarily improve the appearance of its balance sheet.

So brandish the threat from Syria.Some armchair strategists discern a ray of comfort in the exchange of non-conventional threats between Israel and Syria: it creates, they say, an appearance of deterrent balance.

Because the investment bank was saddled with billions of dollars of hard-to-sell soured mortgages and real estate assets on its books, Repo 105 gave Lehman a way to improve the appearance of its balance sheet.

The healthy appearance of major bank balance sheets vanishes when future write-downs and partial defaults are factored in.

The transactions, often valued in the hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, can improve the appearance of the insurers' balance sheets and free up money for other projects, or to pay shareholder dividends.