Balances Quotations

There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other's domain.

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by the ruling class in Washington.

I feel like it does get busier professionally, but personally, I think I choose how I spend my time more carefully, so it balances it out in that sense.

We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.

As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires.

I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.

Unless employers are putting a bunch of money in, I really don't see how these balances are going to get much bigger.

working on finalizing an agreement that balances the needs of the CAW, our employees and the company.

We have a spectacular brand in Dunhill, and a very fast-growing brand in Pall Mall, and that balances our portfolio so that we can take real price increases.

There are multiple checks and balances to make sure what we're doing is targeting ... international phone calls of terrorists, not the conversations between two families coordinating a family vacation. We have very strict laws, very strict oversight. This is a targeted program, and I think most of the American people would be very angry if they thought we weren't doing just this.

The fact is, there are not the checks and balances to make sure the money is spent well.

The process is such that if an official's performance starts to wane because of age, there's some natural checks and balances in the system - coaches, partners, local officials associations. Those things will take care of themselves in a natural way.

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

Maybe the person we apprehended assumed someone else's identity -- identity theft -- or it's an incredible coincidence that these men both had the exact same name and date of birth. If it's not him and he's released, that's showing that the system's checks and balances are in place and they do work. ... If it's not him, it's important that he be allowed to go free.

Obviously I've tried my best within a small cabinet to try to represent all these different balances while at the same time obviously taking into account the skills and experience of individuals.

Positive economic indicators have invigorated individual investors' interest and confidence in the markets, causing trading activity to exceed our expectations. This, along with increased client balances and their resulting yields, has helped us achieve what we expect to be a record quarter.

I work mostly during the week, and on the weekend I get to hang out with friends, so it balances out pretty well.

Certainly, banks make mistakes as do customers and that's why it's important for consumers to make sure no unauthorized charges have been made and all deposits are credited. Consumers should review their account balances as soon as they get the statement and contact the bank as soon as they discover any errors or discrepancies,

Basically, it's a huge message to send out to women who are worried about hormone balances to make sure they stay fit. It's going to give women pause to reflect.

I have a feeling that any catastrophic increases are being blended in throughout the country. There are all kinds of risks everywhere -- hurricanes here, earthquakes in California, and some places where nothing happens. It eventually all balances out.

From the start of her career, Miss Stella had been allowed to race with the wrong name and pedigree, and even her lip tattoo was incorrectly consistent with the foal papers. It was a close call as to whether or not this horse should have run at all. But it was dedicated follow-up work and this department's system of checks and balances that has corrected this ongoing mistake and prevented its perpetuation.

For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them... I kind of realized on '50/ 50' why I liked these blending of tones, because I think it's kind of what life is like: funny one minute, sad the next, scary the next.

We've been up and down like a yo-yo. We're in the same boat we were last year. We let some games get away that we felt we could have won. Maybe we got some that could have been given away, too. It balances out. We've struggled here of late.

Journalists would build in more checks and balances and welcome more independent ombudsmen,

It balances the overall impact, ... Quite frankly, you've got to satisfy the people who are paying the bill.

I think that he did a very professional job in a very, very precarious time. I don't know if we have another board member that can rise to the occasion. It takes a little bit of skill to do that job. But we all have to work together and hopefully we'll have more checks and balances than we did before.

I think we're all saying the same thing, ... We want effective checks and balances in the use of data.

It gives a nod toward checks and balances without fixing the most fundamental flaws in the Patriot Act.

It is monitored and audited to the dime. There are all kinds of checks and balances and procedures to make sure there is no abuse of the system.

Lawmakers must not forget their oaths and disregard the administration's infringement of average Americans' constitutional rights. The White House has repeatedly admitted to the use of warrant-less wiretaps and has yet to be held accountable. Checks and balances on presidential power are essential to protect the rights of Americans.

It is a remarkable honor to win these two national awards because they represent a new measure for the value of architecture architecture that balances beauty with performance and productivity.

Overall, we expect supply/demand balances to remain tight in 2006 with prices continuing to track above the long-term trend.

Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.

That balances our talent and our class size, and down the road that could really be the hidden blessing for the entire program.

We needed checks and balances in the system. Andy has held his hand up to some mistakes. The director will do no coaching. He will be a sounding board.

My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

You kind of take the good with the bad and hope it balances itself out.

We were very fortunate to get that run, but I thought we wasted a big scoring opportunity later. It just all balances out. We were one better tonight.

We'll be the checks and balances on this out-of-control, criminal government.

We believe the settlement agreement balances the interests of all the parties involved.

We're willing to work with the United States to take effective measures to increase China's imports from the United States and work hard to gradually address the trading balances in the two-way trade in the further expansion of our trading ties and economic cooperation,

We're well aware of all the questions surrounding the plan. But we felt there was a system of checks and balances in place to maintain the quality and integrity of the numbers.

U.S. gasoline inventories have fallen further below their five-year average, while U.S. oil demand remains strong. Our estimates of current market balances indicate a significant tightening relative to a year ago.

We needed Simon Jones's type of bowling which balances our bowling attack.

We are optimistic with the technology sector, ... Most of the large technology companies have strong balances and they are likely to increase capital expenditure, which in turn, tends to generate better results.

The polls are pretty clear that voters want limits on the government's power. This is really an argument not about fighting terrorism but about checks and balances and unbridled government authority.

WAN optimization is still a relatively small market, but it's poised for tremendous growth because it balances the desire to consolidate data centers with the need to deliver applications to an ever more distributed workforce. There was a lot of activity in the WAN optimization market last year: acquisitions, new companies entering the market, and significant growth.

The decline may also be the first sign of companies using their cash balances to grow their businesses, which is consistent with the small business loan growth we continued to experience.

The real profit in the credit card business is the revolving balances. Commerce has calibrated what balances they need to be able to make this product profitable without charging the fees that some of the other credit cards charge.

The real profit in the credit card business is the revolving balances, ... Commerce has calibrated what balances they need to be able to make this product profitable without charging the fees that some of the other credit cards charge.

We believe our re-entry plan properly balances safety concerns and the needs of our citizens to begin rebuilding their lives,

The program was probably ill-conceived from the outset. The necessary checks and balances weren't implemented, ... There was political interference. Some of the bureaucrats were either dishonest or incompetent, and the ad agency took advantage of it. But again, to his credit, Prime Minister Martin called the Public Inquiry, and I think he did the right thing.

While it is a difficult decision to eliminate positions in our talented and dedicated work force, this move is necessary to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy, ... This is a decisive, yet disciplined, cost-reduction action that balances the need to be fiscally prudent with the need to continually seek growth opportunities and generate long-term profitability in a highly competitive marketplace.

We need to be working on this to identify what are good balances while at the same time, maintaining a reasonable standard of parking and other types of design that would support those businesses through the long haul.

We see some upside risk to the third quarter and further out balances on the back of energy (particularly natural gas) prices, which continue to sustain themselves at elevated levels.

Toshiba's new Satellite A105 platform balances state-of-the-art features with affordability in an attractive notebook design with Toshiba quality, reliability and innovation throughout. It is designed for people who desire all the advantages of mobile computing but don't want to give up the screen size and features of a desktop PC.

We firmly believe that dialogue about diversity, about representation, about accountability and about checks and balances needs further airing in this parliament.

You have to have tough, physical guys to get away with that. That's what Villanova has. The advantage is you get a big advantage on offense but a disadvantage on defense. But I think it balances out. But you have to have tough kids to do that. They have tough kids and veterans so they can get away with it.

We are calling for responsible eminent domain reform that balances the needs of individual property owners with the livability of our communities.

We are trying to put checks and balances in the process but at the end of the day the coach will have the final say because it is his head that is on the block.

Concentration and other risks in holding dollar balances seem to have become a consideration at least for some investors,

They already have film of us from last year. They know what we do, and we didn't know what they did until (Monday). So it probably balances out.

The running balances us out a little more. We wanted to come in and throw the ball with Andrew, and having a freshman running back on the varsity that can produce.

the series of checks and balances that exemplify the genius of our founding fathers.

The shift in growth sentiment supports a trend that has been developing over the past six months: namely, countries with strong external balances are beginning to look more attractive relative to countries with growing external deficits.

The steady fall in the critical confidence balances this year, for both manufacturing and services, is extremely worrying and requires an urgent policy response.

The technology is moving far faster than the checks and balances across the nation, but this is one check we should have in place. People could be hurt, killed or have their reputations ruined for no reason.

People say it balances out. I guess this is one that the basketball gods smiled down on a group of kids that needed somebody to smile on them.

People hate paying taxes, and the 10 percent penalty has been a huge incentive for many to not disturb the balances in their tax-deferred accounts.

On completion of the refinancing, liquidity will remain at an adequate level, with total cash balances estimated to remain relatively unchanged from the year-end 2005 balance of US$3.0 billion.

decisive, yet disciplined, cost reduction action that balances the need to be fiscally prudent with the need to continually seek growth opportunities and generate long-term profitability in a highly competitive marketplace.

a series of ad hoc special-interest provisions put in that messed with the checks and balances of existing bankruptcy code in a negative way, in favor of a number of special-interest groups.

Bank of America has now become a scale player in credit cards. The more accounts and balances you can spread over your essentially fixed-cost process system, the better the economics get.

That was a big turning point. With turnovers, that kind of tips the balances a little bit.

That's what (the conference) is all about, to come up with a joint statement that balances the need for adequate vitamin D with the kind of sun protection you need to minimize skin cancer.

This is really good news for every American. Checks and balances have been protected.

this is something that can be resolved. We live in a government of checks and balances and there are natural and not unhealthy tensions that have to be addressed ... I don't think it creates a fundamental dilemma that cannot be addressed. ... We think we can resolve it with reasonable people sitting down to clarify these things whether it be the order or the ordinance we're not in any confrontational way with the city.

This decision balances my legal obligation to provide access (to private land within a national forest) with my responsibility to minimize environmental impacts.

This department's system of checks and balances has corrected this ongoing mistake and prevented its perpetuation.

A lot of people will transfer their balances (to a lower-rate card), but then fail to send more than the minimum due.

This is the worst time to miss a bill. Pay down any large credit card or other large revolving accounts if you can, because high balances will hurt your credit rating. And avoid opening any other accounts before the loan you're pursuing is closed.

It seems persuasive that, given the size of the U.S. current account deficit, a diminished appetite for adding to dollar balances must occur at some point,

It's the emotional vs. the rational or logical. In many instances, people view these balances as found money, but there are few instances when cashing out makes sense.

It?s the practice of the county to allow fund balances to grow for one-time expenditures.

It's always an issue at election time and an interesting one that balances rights versus aesthetics. The courts see campaign signs as being political speech and do not look favorably on restrictions.

It's unreasonable to expect currency movements to affect trade balances when you have all these other disequilibria like wages.

Congress must assert its proper role in our government and through its oversight powers, seek the truth. The system of checks and balances must be restored. The administration's illegal actions fail the American people and our Constitution.

Congress has got to hold the administration accountable. The founders set up the checks and balances for that purpose.

The best thing about Eric is he balances up our offense. He throws it to everyone. He runs the offense the way it should be run.

The attorney general's repeated refrain was, 'Trust us' - we have all the necessary checks and balances within NSA and the Justice Department.

The alarming manufacturing figures, the decline in confidence balances across all sectors, and the fall in all the export balances are the most disturbing features of the Q3 results,

It's a mandate. Those decisions are made at the local level involving a local school board. Many districts made decisions based on making sure certain balances are kept within the district.

servants of the people and should be held to the same standards as those we represent. This is evidence that our system of checks and balances is working in the best interests of the people. No one is above the law.

I love masculine cuts with suits and chunky jewellery. My hair is so glam, it balances it out, and it's comfy!

I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.

In 1974, people either paid by cash or a revolving credit card where the balances were paid off every month.

In Liberia there has always been a very strong executive branch that has not had effective checks and balances from other branches of the government. That needs to change.