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balance of powerThe leverage a small party in the legislature possesses, in being able to give, or hold back, voting support to a large, albeit still minority party, to allow it to have a majority on a vote.
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balance of powerdifference in economic and military strengths of nations.
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balance of powerThe distribution of power in a system such that no one state may overwhelm others.
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balance of powerThe theory that military conflict can be avoided if both sides have roughly equivalent military power.
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balance of power A political situation in which power is shared (“balanced”) between different branches of government.
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balance of power a condition in which the distribution of military and political forces among nations means no one state is sufficiently strong to dominate all the others. It may be global, regional or local in scope
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balance of powerBalance of power refers to the counterbalance of power between nations. It is the distribution of power in which no single nation is able to dominate or interfere with.
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balance of powerA strategic term wherein all strengths and weaknesses equal out between opposing players, regardless of narrow independent vantage points. While the term typically applies to military/national strateg [..]
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balance of power*date=October 23, 2011
|author=Phil McNulty
|title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City
|work=BBC Sport
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15325536.stm
|page=
|passage=United's stature is such that o [..]
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balance of power
(politics,government) A situation of equilibrium in which no country is powerful enough to control, or threaten the interests of, the others.
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