How can we seriously consider confirming his nomination to serve as a commission?" The commission is made up of six members, three Democrats and three Republicans, a delicate and deliberate balance that is intended to avoid giving any one party an electoral advantage.
Many wedding traditions have a deliberate balance between the time spent as a couple and the time spent apart.
Community Roots is one of eight charter schools or charter school networks that has a deliberate balance of students from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, according to a February report from The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank.
The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, hailed the large number of female Lib Dem peers, in part a deliberate balancing act to counter the predominantly male Lib Dem profile in the Commons.
For big policies, this includes the deliberate balancing act between social, economic and environmental well-being.
Inappropriate prescriptions may thus sometimes be a result of a deliberate balancing of various interests and concerns.
This has been done through, for instance, priority-setting exercises, where multiple stakeholders convene and use tested methods to deliberate, weigh, balance and rank competing priorities in health research.
"As a result of lessons learned in Chile, Central America and elsewhere, the C.I.A. now carefully reviews all contacts for potential involvement in human rights abuses and makes a deliberate decision balancing the nature and severity of the human rights abuse against the potential intelligence value of continuing the relationship," the report said.
Instead of feeding the fire, I do my best to maintain a deliberate nonchalance, to balance reverence with a heavy dose of reality.
The editors of this book, by contrast, argue that engaging extremists is an indispensable part of a broad policy that is complex in its tactics and deliberate in its balance.
When setting up The Downing Street Project to advance women's leadership -- the spontaneous offspring of The White House Project, founded by Marie Wilson 10 years ago -- we made a deliberate commitment to balance and partnership.
