New Zealand's Prime Minister balances trilateral meetings and nursing her three-month-old daughter.
Overtly pious, yet pro-Western and a free-marketeer, Mr Gul symbolises the new global ambitions of his country.To most of the world Mr Gul is a moderate, who in five years as foreign minister balanced the excesses of his mercurial prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Between them the two parties will be just one seat short of a majority (or two, if they provide the speaker).The leftward tilt is a challenge for Mr Martin, a businessman who as finance minister balanced Canada's books, cutting both taxes and spending.
Oil ministers in Saudi Arabia and Mexico, balancing their own profits against a desire to keep Western economies strong and defend oil's share of energy production worldwide, have both said that they consider a price range of $20 to $25 a barrel more appropriate than $30 a barrel.
The Cabinet Office has confirmed there is good evidence aircraft noise significantly and measurably increases anxiety around Heathrow, but ministers will be balancing this against the strong association between life satisfaction and employment.
GVK said in a statement: "In a timely and considered decision, the minister finely balanced the protection of environment with the need for economic investment and job creation".
As Renzi said yesterday, in a public appearance: "Let's see if Renzi can do it or whether he fails, as the Prime Minister were balanced on a tightrope and everyone else watching.
In practice, Iraq's government consists of a Sunni speaker of parliament, a Kurdish president and a Shiite prime minister, to balance the country's ethnic and religious diversity.
Stephen Harper, the prime minister, has made balancing the budget a priority in advance of elections in 2015.
The Supreme Court recently rejected a tax case against the company.But at least the finance minister talks of balancing books and reforms.
