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Mike, off balance, managed to bat the muzzle away a moment before it exploded.
She finally regained her balance and got up in the saddle.
But Kruger's men keep them off balance, and they don't trust me.
In spite of her attempt to preserve her balance, she fell, bruising her arm on a naked stone.
It took a long time before the British tipped the balance.
The people everywhere had grown meanwhile in devotion to basic democratic principles, in understanding of and belief in the federal balance, and in love of their Union.
This right of the State, its upholders contended, was essential to maintain the federal balance and protect the liberty of the people from the danger of centralizing power in the Union government.
If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.
Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.
It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.
They differed in the balance they believed essential to the sovereignty of the citizen -- but the supreme sacrifice each made served to maintain a still more fundamental truth: That individual life, liberty and happiness depend on a right balance between the two -- and on the limitation of sovereignty, in all its aspects, which this involves.
This problem of the optimum balance in the relative numbers of generalists and specialists can be investigated on a communicative network basis.
The immediate need for this kind of co-operation is underscored by the strain in this nation's international balance of payments.
In 1959 our deficit in balance of payments approached four billion dollars.
The Fourth Corps assaulted and carried a small portion of the enemy works but could not hold possession of the gain for want of cooperation from the balance of the line.
It was, of course, in this drawing of the balance sheet of judgment that he most clearly displayed his desire to do full justice to an author.
The charges caught Pike off balance, coming as they did from an unexpected quarter.
the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.
DeKalb's budget for 1961 is a record one and carries with it the promise of no tax increase to make it balance.
The statement was also made that undoubtedly the railroad had received some compensating benefit from the telegraphers, but that it was difficult to imagine what could balance a job for life.
The balance is being budgeted for the coming year.
On net balance, in spite of Controller Gerosa's opposition to the new Charter as an invasion of his office, the Controller will have the opportunity for greater usefulness to good government than he has now.
There are eight states in which the largest urban vote can be the balance of power in any close election.
What we are attempting to do is achieve and maintain a balance between medium density and low density residential areas and industrial and commercial development.

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