Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.
The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy and cause Syria to turn into a second Afghanistan, a base for anti-Israel terrorism.
The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
Skateboarding has taught me two things - that symbolise a meaning of life. How to keep a balance and how to fall properly.
The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.
Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule.
When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.
It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.
Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.
As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.
Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.
It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.
One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.
There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.
I look for the hotels that have figured out the comfortable balance - a modern room that is well designed, and really clean sheets.
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.
If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.
Sometimes you have to let go in order to receive; after all the universe naturally acquires balance.
Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance.
