1.   All these chores, if efficiently organized, can tilt the balance in a close-run contest.

2.   Any bank which loses deposits loses balances in equal measure and so its ratio deteriorates.

3.   But he recovered his balance in a stride and made off for the water jump.

4.   By this time, the political balance in the Cabinet had altered.

5.   Conversely, an electricity tax that makes robots more expensive would shift the balance in the other direction, back toward labor.

6.   Getting the right balance in life is important to Pearce.

7.   Her friends ridiculed her, seeing for the first time how the balance in their relationship had shifted in favour of adorable Diana.

8.   If there is any point at all to democratic government it is, surely, to redress the balance in our favour.

9.   If you pay the balance in full you come out ahead.

10.   Languages seem to maintain a balance in expressiveness and grammatical complexity over time.