Sentence examples for were balanced against from inspiring English sources

He explored the tendency to build portfolios in which risks were balanced against more secure assets.

UK government ministers argued the changes meant the public's rights were balanced against those of trade unionists but workers, opposition politicians and union leaders have called them draconian.

Here Mr. Appleman accomplished some impressive technical feats, but these were balanced against shortfalls in his intonation, a problem that did not occur in the more substantial works.

G.M.'s net prices also declined in the quarter after the cost of rebates and zero percent financing were balanced against sticker prices and other factors.

In the other experiment, performed in Cambridge, Eng., by Y.T. Chen and associates, the attractions of two solid cylinders of different mass were balanced against a third cylinder so that only the separations of the cylinders had to be known; it was not necessary to know the distances of any from a test mass.

Charles Dickens is known to have visited Whitby and in a letter of 1861 to his friend Wilkie Collins, who was at the time in Whitby, Dickens says: In my time that curious railroad by the Whitby Moor was so much the more curious, that you were balanced against a counter-weight of water, and that you did it like Blondin.

These two can be balanced against each other.

Those risks, he said, have to be balanced against reward.

It has to be balanced against the cost," Nusbaum says.

The purpose of the use may be balanced against the amount and substantiality of the use.

While an additional direct measure could improve accuracy, cost must be balanced against incremental accuracy.