Sentence examples for hold a balance from inspiring English sources

The bet for Mr Clegg is that he does not need mass appeal: he just has to earn (or win back) the respect of enough voters to hold a balance of power in the next parliament.

But Mr Starr's comment could be disingenuous: Burnley's new politics may give them a chance to hold a balance of power which the national party leader, Nick Griffin, will be sure to exploit.

However, following the application for civil rehabilitation (a Japanese legal procedure analogous to bankruptcy), "these wallets were rescanned and their balance researched," says Karpeles, and one wallet was found to hold a balance of 199,999.99 bitcoins.

The aftermath has seen Daimler and French media conglomerate Lagardere sell down their stakes in a streamlining of EADS's complex shareholding structure, which is designed to hold a balance of power between the French and German governments.

Chhau, as the lithe and authoritative Mr. Sai Babu showed it, is a highly complex form, vigorous for the upper and lower body, sometimes asking dancers to hold a balance when they must be most tired.

We do not know why this mattered so much, but it has become a talisman of liberal radicalism, to be implemented in that split second opportunity when the party might hold a balance of power in the Commons and "name its price".

Holding a balance, she flashes us a look of justified triumph.

Yet their role is important in holding a balance between human and animal uses of land.

A woman, holding a balance on one leg, tests alternate hands on her companion's proffered arm.

It is represented by a woman (sometimes identified with Astraea, the Roman goddess of justice), holding a balance scale or by the balance alone.

They did not drop to knee simultaneously after she held a balance and he executed a double turn in the air.