Mr. Assad has an interest in shifting the strategic balance in his war-torn country, and can produce the appearance of big victories by pushing rebels out of long-held areas.
But he defended the administration, saying it is "trying to strike the right balance" between ending the war and maintaining stability in Iraq.
Women pre-World War I had balance by working, nurturing, growing, and caring their families from the home with the help of others in the community.
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Mr Blair believes, as does this newspaper, that on balance it is worth fighting a war to rid the world of one of its most dangerous tyrants.
As World War II approached, the balance of forces heavily favored the Allied powers.
If the eurozone does turn the current jaw-jaw into a war-war against the weakness of banks' balance sheets, how much capital would European banks be forced to raise - and which big banks would be forced to raise the most?
War remained the essential means for maintaining the balance of power.
Army leaders have warned the war has left the service "out of balance, " with troops strained by extended deployments and equipment worn by exposure to harsh desert conditions.
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Rather, the war was being fought to restore or upset the balance of power between European empires in Europe and beyond.
Light and darkness are always at war, and the outcome is always hanging in the balance, hanging on small things, unnoticed at the time.
How long would it take for that balance to be regained is probably the subject of furious planning and war-gaming behind the closed doors of everyone involved.
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Now I think if we can do that, show you can win the peace as well as winning the war and then you need to have them in proper balance.
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Just as the Humphrey-Hawkins legislation in the 1970s put a new burden on the U.S. Federal Reserve, that of seeking full employment, so did Madame Lagarde appear to add a mission for the IMF, which was founded after World War II to help manage international capital flows to ward off balance-of-payment crises.
An effort to balance the budget deficit caused a further contraction in 1938, and then World War II came along, and the rest is history.
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We have a war to win, a region to rebuild, a budget to balance, taxes to cut, a government to reform, and a nation to lead.
On the war in Kosovo, Mr Allen has struggled to strike an awkward balance between the conservative Republican orthodoxy that the United States should stay out of the Balkans and Virginia's strong military tradition.
But, by focusing on the balance of power created by the threat of nuclear holocaust, McConnell leaves out how the Cold War was won.
What teetered in the balance that week was not only the whole fabric of Russian-American relations since the cold war, but the principle of democratic control over Russia's army.
In the future, Mr Letwin wants the budget to balance across the cycle, a demanding goal, rarely, if ever, achieved in the post-war period.
At its last regular meeting, just two days before the war started, the Fed announced that the outlook was so unclear that it could not decide where the balance of economic risks lay.
Absent a game changer that will tip the balance in favor of one side or the other, the crisis in Syria will become a full-blown sectarian war pitting Sunnis against Alawites, which will likely spill over into the neighboring countries of Iraq and Lebanon.
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