There is a sad zero sum game between Palestinian suffering and Israeli sovereignty, security, and normal life.

The Special Rapporteur was convinced that on balance the facts were against Israel.

On balance, however, the advantages far outweigh the risks.

It also has a pneumatic cuff that holds it on, so the more they put themselves under load, the more it attaches.

It probably would not tip the balance if the situation in Libya deteriorates into a full scale civil war.

In 2011 in Côte d Ivoire, French forces alongside UN forces tip the balance in favor of Ouattara during the civil war.

The decision will remain unfair and unpredictable and consequently the rule of law will not prevail.

Independently of the development of satellite guided munitions, research and development under way in France is currently focusing in two major areas

And I had every intention of taking this tribe from being outliers in the Middle East and pushing them over the tipping point towards success.

Cancer cells mutate and they gain the ability to release lots of those angiogenic factors, natural fertilizer, that tip the balance in favor of blood vessels invading the cancer.

As the sanctions imposed on Iran outside the Security Council clearly show, effective action can be taken to tilt the balance and end the deadly stalemate in Syria.

The US surpassed the UK in terms of industrial production as early as the end of the nineteenth century, but that was not enough to tip the balance.

This situation often makes it difficult to convince the decision makers to engage in reform, even though benefits are likely to outweigh costs.

Furthermore, the risk of torture must be assessed on grounds that go beyond mere theory or suspicion but it does not have to meet the test of being highly probable.

The Immigration Service concluded that, in the light of the nature of the offences committed by, and the severity of the prison sentence imposed on, the author, his personal circumstances did not outweigh the arguments for his expulsion.

No one points out the huge opportunity cost of what could have been and what could still be albeit barely if the US took decisive action to save tens of thousands of Syrian lives and possibly tip the balance of the conflict.

Fear that expanded trade will destroy jobs and disrupt the American economy needs to be balanced by fear that reduced trade will destroy jobs and disrupt the American economy.

Far from being a purely technical, value neutral process, the act of shaking a public administration system to its roots disturbs not only the officials whose careers are at stake but also other external stakeholders.