While improvement in capital flows has certainly been a supportive factor since September 2012, the deterioration in the trade balance is likely to weigh on the external balance nonetheless.
Judging by the experience of other rich countries that have suffered financial crises spawned by housing busts, such as Sweden and Norway in the early 1990s, weak balance sheets will weigh on consumers' spending for years rather than months.
With judges, the Senate must weigh and balance its concern for the independence of the judiciary against the recognition that because a judge is appointed for life, impeachment is the only available method for removing from office those who are corrupt.
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We also closely weigh the overall balance between risk and reward in the market.
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That will weigh on corporate balance sheets, many of which were never set in order after the region's financial crisis of 1997-98.
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They're different because before deciding whether to impose the ultimate sanction of removal, the Senate must weigh in the balance dramatically different considerations.
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Moreover, critical US national security interests, such as the stability of the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement, Egypt's 35-year strategic alignment with America following Sadat's pivot away from the Soviet Union, and the fate of the Arabian Peninsula's oil-and gas-producing regimes, justifiably weigh in the balance for Washington's decision-makers, and the West as a whole.
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By contrast, in the short term it reckons that the votes of a few conservationists and well-to-do owners of second homes weigh lightly in the balance against those who have to make a living out in constituencies such as Stroud and the Forest of Dean.
They then weigh all this in the balance and inform it with their own experience - if only all those who influence the use of scientists' output did the same.
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