EQUILIBRIUM in a Sentence

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In effect, they involve a comparison of the general equilibrium of the economy with and without the government budget.

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 Meanings and Examples of EQUILIBRIUM
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equilibrium
 n.  mental or emotional balance; state of balance of any causes, powers, or motives
Classic Sentence:
1  Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of equilibrium; that is to say, to equity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
2  It was social elements entering into strife, while awaiting the day when they should enter into equilibrium.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
3  I tottered, and on regaining my equilibrium retired back a step or two from his chair.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Selden knew, however, that he could not long keep such violences in equilibrium; and he promised to meet Dorset, the next morning, at an hotel in Monte Carlo.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
5  Dr. Seward is loved not only by his household and his friends, but even by his patients, who, being some of them hardly in mental equilibrium, are apt to distort causes and effects.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  And were it possible to maintain things in this equilibrium, I veritably believe that herein would be found the true form of political life, and the true tranquility of a republic.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI.
Example Sentence:
1  The disease destroys much of the inner-ear, disturbing the animal's equilibrium.
2  The government is anxious not to upset the economic equilibrium.
3  In effect, they involve a comparison of the general equilibrium of the economy with and without the government budget.
4  Stocks seesawed ever lower until prices found some new level of equilibrium.
5  A society which remains in equilibrium is termed static, that which is changing is called dynamic.
6  As I already mentioned, ocean is not in thermal equilibrium with atmosphere, it is 13 degrees cooler.
7  In its simplest form, vibration can be considered to be the oscillation or repetitive motion of an object around an equilibrium position.