Three times he was premier, and he was always the most formidable debater and fighter in the ranks of the Conservative opponents of the growing Radical party which Sir George Grey, Sir Robert Stout and John Ballance led in succession.
He repealed the Ballance land-tax in 1879, and substituted a property-tax.
A false Ballance is not good; a false Ballance is an abomination to the Lord.
His father was a cowper in Ballance Street; his mother, whom I well remember, was a midwife in the city.
During the fighting with the Maori chief Titokowaru, in 1867, Ballance was concerned in the raising of a troop of volunteer horse, in which he received a commission.
To undervalue him whose least fam'd service Scornes to be put in ballance with the best Of all your Counsailes.
Observations continued upon the Barometer, or rather Ballance of the Air.
Observations continued upon the Barometer, or Ballance of the Air.
I placed both the Ballance and the Frame by a good Baroscope, from whence I might learn the present weight of the Atmosphere.
Mr. Ballance also reformed the system of direct taxation and gave an impetus to legislation dealing with the settlement of the land and the protection of workmen in industrial pursuits.
It is not in demonstrations as in probabilities, that difficulties can take place, and one argument counter-ballance another, and diminish its authority.
The consequences of every breach of equity seem to lie very remote, and are not able to counter-ballance any immediate advantage, that may be reaped from it.
Philosophers never ballance betwixt profit and honesty, because their decisions are general, and neither their passions nor imaginations are interested in the objects.
And though such interests and pleasures touch us more faintly than our own, yet being more constant and universal, they counter-ballance the latter even in practice, and are alone admitted in speculation as the standard of virtue and morality.
In this opposition the passion in the end prevails over the imagination; but it is commonly by complying with it, and by seeking another quality, which may counter-ballance that principle, from whence the opposition arises.
Now though I am very well satisfied that it is not in my power to ballance Accounts with my Maker, I am resolved however to turn all my future Endeavours that way.
I do not advise this method to be gone rapidly about, as she may make use both of stirrup and reins at first, and when she has acquired a firmness and ballance in some degree, may first quit the stirrup, and in a lesson or two, the reins.
I hope you have by this time examined our private Accounts as you promised, and satisfyd yourself that I did, as I certainly did, pay you that Ballance of about 389L in my own wrong.
My Wish only was, that you would inspect the Account and satisfy yourself that I had paid you when here that large supposed Ballance in my own wrong.
If you are now satisfied about it and transmit me the Account you promise with the Ballance stated I shall be easy and you will pay it when convenient.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ballance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
