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In a sense, though this will be misleading, the limiting case of a multipolar system is a bipolar one -- as was characteristic of the Cold War, where the U.S. and U.S.S.R. were engaged in parallel policies of balancing which presupposed that each considered the other to be engaged in a policy of 'imbalancing'.
Balance of Power 101 Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005
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If characters giving each other huge gifts is imbalancing to the game, then fix the game so that they can't unbalance the game by doing it, or make it an across-the-board soft rule against the IN GAME BEHAVIOR only... not the out-of-game relationship.
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If they determine that the game grants imbalancing rewards to people that play hours on end AND that they have to compete with that person, they don't bother trying.
Casual Dress 2005
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And any kind of line - drawing, imbalancing of the equities, along the lines that plaintiffs are suggesting should be done, would clearly be the court's substituting its judgment for the person that the executive branch official that was committed that discretion.
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Balance is automatic -- we each have a metabolic set point that regulates how many calories are burned every day -- but it can be overridden by imbalancing factors, including the following:
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Deepak Chopra 2011
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The G20 is expected to come to an arrangement to stop China and other major trading nations from devaluing their currency and imbalancing the global economy.
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I need pills, nice hormone-imbalancing sleeping pills.
Hidden Haven divio_moonshine 2010
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The G20 is expected to come to an arrangement to stop China and other major trading nations from devaluing their currency and imbalancing the global economy.
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The G20 is expected to come to an arrangement to stop China and other major trading nations from devaluing their currency and imbalancing the global economy.
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And there's nothing stopping you from wildly imbalancing your encounters, of course.
Wax Banks 2009
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