How to Use balance of power in a Sentence

balance of power

noun phrase

• 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
• While there are exceptions, sheriffs have a long history of using their power to maintain a particular, unequal balance of power in society, often along racial and class lines.
  — Emily Farris, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Post-primary balance of power:Scottsdale mayor, council elections will go to runoffs.
  — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 11 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• That balance of power cannot be sustained by Israel’s military capacity alone.
  — Trita Parsi, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
• These geo-economic effects are working to change the geopolitical landscape and the global balance of power of the 21st century, something many Western policymakers may not be aware of.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024