Fearfulness used to be part of Jackson's appeal; the vulnerability of his singing voice and his shy offstage demeanor somehow balanced his mastery of music, dance and hype.

If they still cannot somehow balance the books on cosmic mass, theorists may have to turn the page to a revised theory.

"And I'm a little skeptical that the Republicans are going to be able to cut taxes, increasing spending for the military and somehow balance the budget."

Neither did Nylan, but his scarcely more than infant son was somehow instinctively balancing order and chaos.

But that was only one of the unlikely treats at Wednesday's concert by Sting, who somehow balances musicianly experiments and melancholy, high-minded songs with the charisma and showmanship of a pop star.

Entreri saw the problem, too, and knew that they had to somehow balance the odds.

That means, above all, somehow balancing the city's budget without new taxes.

He drives and exhorts, setting an example of furious activity; he works on fifty things at once, somehow balancing them all, keeping them all filed within his capacious mind.

Vok had risen from his knees and was standing, even as Ban and Tuvok were, standing and balancing somehow atop the stone altar.

He somehow balanced both, but was always on the edge of disaster.