Sadly, the balance of assertion and protection with tolerance and inclusion can easily go askew.
While Ms. Twain has few of the hip-hop or rhythm-and-blues roots of the other women here, she and her songwriting partner (and husband), Robert John (Mutt) Lange, are also looking for a marketable balance of self-assertion and flirtation.
Many Leos are working on discovering the appropriate balance between self-assertion and surrender in their relationships these days.
In 1869, Rankine published an article in The Engineer repeating von Drais's assertion that balance is maintained by steering in the direction of a lean.
After listening to Dr. Mark Emmert's press conference this morning, his assertion that a balance between academics and athletics (specifically Penn State Football) did not exist previously is baseless and intellectually dishonest.
He agreed with Bolt's assertions that on balance journalists from all media organisations were more liberal than conservative.
Mrs. Clinton's staff disputed the assertion that the Balanced Budget Act of 1995, which President Clinton vetoed, would have allocated more federal Medicaid money for New York.
However, and here is the rub, this still "leaves scope for interpretation clauses," Grieve has said, "to provide for the better balancing of rights where the assertion of a right undermines the rights of others".
Perhaps the authors' most contentious assertion is that the balance of power in global soccer is about to change because of three factors -- population, wealth and experience.
The overall effect is of a lively mind teasing out some big questions for our amusement, and doing so with a balance between intelligence and silliness, meaningful assertion and self-deprecation that's just about perfect.
And the balancing of opposites, the rhythm of assertion and counter-assertion, the sudden questioning turns, all of it seems irresistibly like Florio's Montaigne, notably in the springy, self-surprised beat: How often do we pester our spirits with anger or sadness by such shadows and entangle ourselves into fantastical passions which alter both our mind and body?
