0 a situation in which a person tries to give care and attention to two or more activities at the same time:
This "balancing act" is the focus of the analysis to follow.
This everyday phrase neatly encapsulates the moral balancing act that many grandparents face when confronted with the divorce of their children.
Given the number of potentially important variables in bilingual production, issues of design will always be a balancing act.
For example, it was vulnerable to attack from either side and had to perform a particular balancing act.
This hybrid identity is therefore presented as something of a balancing act.
This is why some analysts believe that "the 'balancing act' is just that: an act" (p. 128).
To recognize these processes at all requires a difficult balancing act.
Architecture is both a tightrope walk and a balancing act.