Sentence examples for were on balance from inspiring English sources

Details aside, the firm's results were, on balance, reassuring.

Reviews were on balance hostile, with a 47/100 rating at Metacritic and a 28% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes.

As it turns out, critical appraisals were on balance positive, with a 56/100 score at Metacritic.

Until recently most opinion polls were on balance favourable to the notion of further unifying the European continent by admitting the western Balkan countries, at least.

To take one example, his criticism of Roosevelt's "100-proof soak-the-rich" tax politics is oblivious of work arguing that Roosevelt was actually employing opportunistic rhetoric to obscure tax policies that were on balance regressive.

The disadvantages of such a thing are numerous enough, and in the past the "constitution of the people" and the traditions of British political life were on balance preferable.

Evans said on Wednesday that it was "on balance right and proper" that the BBC made the disclosure.

Roll: It's one where we're on balance more skeptical of the market's enthusiasm.

On the brighter side, the message of "Why America Slept" is on balance a hopeful one.

But the tradeoff presented by Proposition 52 is, on balance, a fair one.

Unfortunately, a 50cl bottle costing £15 is, on balance, "less likely to have problems" than one costing £2.