How to Use balance of power in a Sentence

balance of power

noun phrase
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  • The new space race has the potential to shape the global balance of power.
    — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • But some Oromo bishops felt the return of the exiles — many of whom were from the Amhara ethnic group — upset the synod’s balance of power.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • And there are a few states that could see seats shift towards Democrats, such as New York and Wisconsin, scrambling the final balance of power.
    — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 3 May 2023
  • In assessing the overall balance of power, the U.S. has at least five long-term advantages.
    — TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
  • At the top, that starts with the Israel-Hamas war potentially tilting the global balance of power.
    — WSJ, 17 Oct. 2023
  • For decades, these rival factions maintained a balance of power: The right has led Israel for most of the past four decades, but always in coalition with parts of the center or left.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • With passage of the new Illinois law, that balance of power will for the first time tip toward tribal nations whose ancestral lands became the state of Illinois.
    — Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 5 Aug. 2023
  • During the Cold War, each superpower feared that if all of Germany fell to the other, the global balance of power would shift decisively.
    — Stephen G. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • An elderly Senate can make a fragile balance of power even more fragile.
    — Graham Underwood, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Of a balance of power that favored the person behind the camera over the person in front of it, authoring a story for Europeans, by Europeans.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The war might not have come to pass had Germany’s leaders after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck not been so brazen about altering the naval balance of power.
    — Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2024
  • The result has not been the happy formation of a new balance of power but rather a vacuum that regional players have aggressively sought to fill.
    — Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • In this view, the country again finds itself in an era in which powerful companies run roughshod over their workers, their suppliers and the politicians who are supposed to maintain a balance of power.
    — H. Claire Brown, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Part of this changing balance of power is related to uncertainty in the economy.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 14 June 2023
  • Some observers suggest China's growing prominence in peace efforts reflects a larger shift in the worldwide balance of power.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 28 Apr. 2023
  • In Brussels, there is a growing sense that Ukrainian membership would shift the E.U.’s balance of power, impact its agricultural market and upend its budget.
    — Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • On paper, this means all of this provides a healthy balance of power, performance, and battery-saving efficiency—all of which are important for a gaming handheld.
    — PCMAG, 10 May 2024
  • Changes in the region’s balance of power could also upset neighboring Eritrea’s fragile alliances.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Though overall spending this election cycle has not surpassed the record-setting levels seen in 2022, a small number of repeat donors are buoying a slate of right-leaning candidates running to change the Assembly’s current balance of power.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • This assertion of state sovereignty, however, threatens to overturn the constitutional balance of power set by the Civil War and Reconstruction.
    — TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Foreign Affairs has recently published a number of articles on the global balance of power, the future of U.S. hegemony, and how great-power competition is playing out in the developing world.
    — Foreign Affairs, 23 May 2023
  • Such responsibilities, analysts warn, give the military the ability to raise money on its own and could undermine Mexico’s balance of power.
    — Galia García Palafox Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Zhao presents a robust and empirically rich rebuttal of the realist theory that China’s foreign policy is the straightforward product of its geostrategic position and the broader balance of power.
    — Suisheng Zhao, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • An effective city government structure should strive to achieve a balance of power that allows for efficient decision-making, representation of diverse interests, transparency, and accountability.
    — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024

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