There's plenty of imbalance to be offset elsewhere, too.
But I can't see any easy way for the trade imbalance to be equalised.
A free-kick corrects that imbalance to some extent at least.
"Anything that creates an imbalance to the degree that this does in the parties is not real reform," he said.
But there is, nonetheless, a scrappiness and imbalance to the work, a spiritual discord that makes it difficult to emulate.
Scott M. Stanzel, a White House spokesman, likened Mr. Bush's episodes of imbalance to the feeling that can occur in someone who has just gotten off a boat.
And at the Donmar, Kelly Reilly, playing Miss Julie as a trembling debutante teetering perilously on her high heels, captured that imbalance to self-loathing perfection.
They cited recent results as unacceptable, pointing to the defensive frailties and imbalance to the team that had shown little sign of being rectified.
This is sitcom at its most elemental: story is nothing, character and lines everything, and the production by Repertorio Español exploits this imbalance to great advantage.
Steven Hevey's "In My Name," a ticking, short-fused bomb of a drama at Trafalgar Studio 2, takes a similar equation of imbalance to even more insidious extremes.
It is one thing for someone with a hormonal imbalance to take an anabolic steroid to restore muscle function; quite another for an athlete to secretly take a performance-enhancing drug.
