How to Use balance of power in a Sentence

balance of power

noun phrase

• The new space race has the potential to shape the global balance of power.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Beware of those who promise a new dawn, the birth of a new Middle East, a new balance of power in the region.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 29 Sep. 2024
• 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
• This shift was in part to alter the dramatic balance of power between Stanley and Blanche.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
• But the current balance of power in Tehran will prevent Pezeshkian from making deeper changes.
  — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2024
• 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
• That will shift the domestic balance of power away from proponents of the green transition.
  — Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
• The Hill: Wisconsin is bracing for a high-stakes state Supreme Court election that will determine its balance of power.
  — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 25 Nov. 2024
• Obama’s rapprochement with Iran edged the regional balance of power away from the Persian Gulf states and Israel.
  — Trita Parsi, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
• But as the war’s dust settles, Israel has wrought fundamental change in the Middle Eastern balance of power.
  — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024
• 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
• The biggest question of all is whether the United States can ride the coattails of history moving through Ukraine and achieve a stable balance of power in Europe and beyond.
  — Anatol Lieven, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• But Hezbollah’s rise in the last three decades has fundamentally altered this balance of power.
  — Maryclare Roche, Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2024
• 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
• Most documentary films instead deal with topics such as the creation of art, balances of power, and social justice.
  — PCMAG, 13 Jan. 2025
• 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
• For years, officials in Jerusalem had banked on a relatively predictable balance of power with the neighboring regime of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.
  — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
• Post-primary balance of power:Scottsdale mayor, council elections will go to runoffs.
  — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 11 Sep. 2024
• Beyond a source of national prestige, who leads on AI will likely have ramifications for the global balance of power.
  — Harry Booth, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
• However, the foundation of the decision’s rationale was the same issue Williams identified — a proper balance of power among the three branches.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2024
• The 6 drive modes are: Comfort / Normal – a good balance of power, fuel economy, steering, and throttle response for daily driving.
  — Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2025