In Europe, this design-and-construction balancing act has an established manufacturing base to feed it; in the United States, not so much.
Its name derives from the Latin word Libra for weight or balance, via the construction Libra Pondo, meaning a pound weight.
This is despite a near £300m pension deficit, £70m of annual deficit recovery, a construction like balance sheet (provisions, pre-payments etc) and some aggressive accounting (e.g. fair value accounting / depreciation sales of only 1.2%).
Studies from countries in the West have noted that high-speed rail construction can balance the population distribution in metropolitan areas.
This paper aims to describe the process adopted by Network Rail for track bed investigation and design which offers Network Rail optimum design solutions and value for money from an investigation and construction perspective, balancing design with possession availability to maximise construction output.
This latter comparison is useful because of the uncertainty surrounding how tree construction might affect balance: to the extent that both are constructed from similar data, differences between the balance of gene trees and species trees will be due to differences in the branching processes of duplication and speciation.
State lawmakers have made $350 million in cuts to the judicial branch this year and have repurposed $310 million from the courts' construction fund to balance the state budget.
Contribute with Guardian Witness Whether you work in retail, in an office or on a construction site the balance between work and one's personal life can be difficult to achieve.
And so it is I join a group of astrophysicists, post-docs and PhDs from Oxford university, who are attempting to balance construction blocks using hooks attached to their heads with string.
The use of "for" after "expected" in the second element is unnecessary and seems somewhat colloquial; in any case, it throws the construction out of balance to say "expected the trial to last …" but then say "[expected] FOR 80 to 100 witnesses to be called".
