The government has sought to keep the balance-of-payments deficit within reasonable bounds by slowing the economy.
China's appetite for foodstuffs and iron ore has boosted Brazil's exports, helping growth and eliminating the balance-of-payments troubles that so often dogged the country in the past.
Of course, five months ago very few people made the claim that export numbers were going to be so strong or that the balance-of-payments would be expanding.
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This would be the biggest pro-union shift in the balance of labor-management power since the Wagner Act of 1935.
The bipolar international structure of the Cold War is often warmly remembered as a time when the balance of power - aided by the commonly understood inevitability of mutual assured destruction - ensured a relatively peaceful world where a war between the superpowers was largely unfeasible.
In the mid-1990s, they looked at the balance-sheets of their debt-laden subsidiaries, and at the feeble earnings from them, and decided, one after the other, that they had had enough, either merging their interests or pulling out altogether.
Senior bankers warned that the pay curbs -- which were not part of the Basel accord -- will reset the balance of arguments for operating in Europe, with potentially far reaching implications.
As the Commons Treasury Committee put questions to Sir Mervyn on 28 November 2011, the governor said that deleveraging - the consolidation of balance sheets - was more marked among European banks than their British counterparts.
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The net balance of -5% was a slight improvement on the previous quarter.
There will be no respite for Hoggard and Harmison in Chittagong unless England re-think the balance of their side - back-to-back Test matches are not most fast-bowlers' idea of a good thing.
An unprecedented growth spurt at the end of the 1980s led to a balance-of-payments crisis, Mr Singh's reforms and the subsequent boom culminating in annual growth rates in the past three years of 9% or more.
As the concerns of investors increased, money center banks and other large financial institutions have come under significant pressure to take onto their own balance sheets the assets of some of the off-balance-sheet investment vehicles that they had sponsored.
The first sign of the disease was simple clumsiness and lack of balance - classic early signs of the prions that cause vCJD damaging the brain.
The result is that what the Chinese took to be a solid, mutually beneficial relationship with the Burmese has exploded in their faces with long-term consequences for Myanmar, the balance of power in South-East Asia and the whole way that China does business with poorer countries.
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The Director-General outlined the main points of the Recommendation concerning the "development of public domain content" and "reaffirming the equitable balance between the interests of rights-holders and the public interest", issues which are expected to be central to the World Summit on the Information Society.
The experience of playing music together, or simply listening to it in solitude, can attune human psychology to the experience of balance and co-operation, increasing the depth of our capacity for emotional engagement with others.
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On the other side of the balance-sheet is a tendency for people to over-complain.
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The coalition has pledged to restrict the level of annual net migration - the balance between the number of people who come to live in the UK for the long-term and the number who are leaving - to "tens of thousands".
It should be noted that even if the December lows were broken, the long-term positive action of the on-balance volume (OBV) indicator would still keep my long-term trend analysis positive.
For example between 1985 and 1988, about 80 percent of all Western commercial bank credits to the former Soviet Union took the form of untied, balance-of-payments loans with no effort made to identify where the money was going or how it would be used.
England were dumped out of the World Cup by - of all teams - the West Germans and freak balance of trade figures drove a coach and horses through Wilson's claims that Labour could run the economy.
At home, the Defence Department's post-Gulf-war prestige is also in the balance, along with the doctrines of high-tech dominance that the Gulf war encouraged people to believe.
Thanks to the reforms in the judicial system and the deployment of the army to combat the narco-traffickers, the balance of power of the Mexican cartels has shifted and their leadership has been relentlessly pursued and diminished.
The purpose of the CJS reforms is to re-balance the system radically in favour of the victim, protecting the innocent but ensuring the guilty know the odds have changed.
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What appears to be equity on the balance-sheet of one set of government-controlled entities is really just debt on another.
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They also stand a greater chance of losing money if the ESM takes on the risk of bank investing, not least because they know even less about the balance-sheets of individual lenders than those of national governments.
Ms May said the government would also "untangle the knot" of restrictive health and safety rules and re-balance the law in favour of those who stood up to anti-social behaviour.
At the end of June 2001, the on-balance volume (OBV) moved above its 21-period WMA for the first time since October of 1996.
Rights are a matter of balance - the exercise of one person's rights can undermine those of another.
As with the cases of the other children, the inquiry is paying special attention to the management of Raychel's fluid balance - in particular, whether she should have received the particular type of fluid and at the rate it was administered.
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