Conflicts between partners, members, or shareholders arise for a variety of reasons: personality differences, payment of dividends, allegations that a co-owner has converted business assets to personal use, marital divorce, shift in the balance of power and control between younger and older partners, employment discrimination claims and disagreements over the future of the business among others.

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As things stand, unlike Belfast City Council, the Alliance Party does not control the balance of power on the commission.

BBC: David Ford questions assembly flag meeting

The new Senate elected in October, in which the Democrats will control the balance of power, will not assemble until July.

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And can we shift the balance of power, so that people don't feel that their community is out of control, that they have no sense of power over the things that matter to them, and I think that's what the government is determined to address, but not by imposing a solution, but by trying to make something, develop something that actually works locally.

BBC: Politics Show, Sunday 23 October 2005