We are being weighed in the balance.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The past, and the present

When deciding to join (and stay with) my employer, I weighed each in the balance.

ECONOMIST: Spinning the web

What results most of the time is a sense of freedom, an airy lyricism that's never weighed down by the notion that careers or record sales hang in the balance.

NPR: Fiction Family Debut Is Delicate And Industrious

In any case, the time when whatever is on one side of the balance is weighed against whatever is on the other side -- whether it's your heart, your soul or your debts -- and the final reckoning is made.

CNN: Our romance with debt -- we'll pay later