The fair was part of an effort to try to balance the budget for the first time in four years.

At the same time, defense commanders tried to balance the military's needs.

I was, in short, back to trying to balance my work and life.

He was trying to balance another on one of the pans.

And, having done that, we try to balance the art itself against other arts.

He looked away again for a while, and seemed to be trying to balance the question in the general scale of things.

We try to balance that fact against our interest in the art itself.

"We're going to go crazy trying to balance these things all the time."

For years, the company tried to balance its books by cutting service.

He changed the tax code to try to balance the national budget.