0 a position in which both or all of the groups or people involved, usually in a political situation, have equal power: --
1 a situation in which no country is powerful enough to control the others --
He acknowledges the need for restrictions for the former on the basis of concerns over balance of power within the polity.
Yet states refrain from initiating war if a balance of power exists in which no single state or alliance of states has overwhelming preponderant power.
Corporations chartered under general law could gain a balance of power advantage by extracting concessions from lawmakers.
We are aware that our assertions on policy effectiveness and balance of power thus remain debatable.
Rather, broad-based opposition coalitions have formed to contest international policies and the domestic balance of power between the executive and legislative branches.
Such choices can be a reflection of the household's internal dynamics (for example, the balance of power and responsibility among its members).
Cultural change, in this perspective, is always to be contextualised in shirts in the balance of power that structure contingent social orders.
It may well be, however, that the balance of power in this unstable equilibrium is about to change.
