More importantly, they may well hold the balance of power in the next Parliament.
But it also means that narrow interest groups hold the balance of power.
They want to keep on good terms with a party which, even in its diminished state, could yet hold the balance of power in 2015.
Populist regional parties hold the balance of power in parliament.
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Her party plans to field candidates in marginal federal constituencies, and she claims to have enough support to hold the balance of power in Canberra after the general election.
However, Mr Paisley has predicted that the DUP will hold the balance of unionist power in the assembly and that his party will therefore have the power to block any such move.
True, he was helped by Mr Brown's often surreal efforts to ingratiate himself with the Lib Dem leader (his party could, after all, hold the balance of power in a hung parliament).
Labour councillors are few in number on Somerset council, but their deputy leader, Andrew Govier, hopes that might mean he and his colleagues will hold the balance of power after the election.
By forging a united front, the Kurds will bolster their strength in the national assembly in Baghdad (where they may even hold the balance) and secure a key spot in Iraq's post-election constitutional debate.
Whoever wins will lack a majority in Congress, in which the grip of the two traditional parties has been challenged not just by Mr Solis (who will hold the balance of power) but also by a free-market party (which captured six of the 57 seats).
In the upper house of the New South Wales parliament, for instance, he claims to hold what he calls "the balance of prayer".
It's a similar dynamic to what is happening with Wall Street banks that committed to fund leveraged buyouts, only to have trouble selling those loans in the syndicated loan market--they have to hold them on balance sheet until the credit markets come back to life.
The banks arranging the Chrysler and Alliance loan packages have decided to hold them on balance sheet and wait until the fall to see if investors are willing to jump back into the loan market.
Of course, investment banks have a lot to lose in the credit crunch, not only in lost income from loans they are forced to hold on balance sheets, but from the fees they make to arrange new debt financings.
Taxpayers can better hold recipients accountable and balance the burdens against benefits of handouts at the state or local level.
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As I pointed out in the post, Apple, Microsoft and Cisco all have huge cash positions outside the country: each of them, in fact, hold the vast majority of their balance sheet cash in foreign accounts.
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His hold on the job was in the balance at the start of 2007, after some poor results, but his stock has soared recently and several media sources have named him as a potential candidate for the post of Australia coach.
Banks are trying to shrink the loans and investments on their balance sheets, relative to the capital they hold as protection against losses.
Regulators say holding back a small amount of customer cash would decrease the amount of capital that firms would have to hold in reserve and compare the idea to a minimum account balance required by banks.
It even has great balance so you can hold the phone steady when you're takin pictures with the camera, which is one of those rotating jobbies at the top left of the face.
Their improvement, on the back of improved private sector balance sheets, suggests a broader recovery is taking hold, according to the report, co-authored by Hatzius and Zach Pandel.
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For now then, grandkids and parents would do well to take advantage of something the baby boomers still seem to hold dear -- balance.
When you aggregate all this it yields the prediction that the eurozone is - on balance - likely to hold together (just), but at an enormous social and economic cost for Spain, Greece and a few others.
They can remain on the balance sheet with a footnote explaining the intent to hold to maturity.
Lacking any Wall Street buyers for their mortgage loans, commercial banks are left to hold any mortgages they've made in the last few weeks on balance sheet, requiring funds and reserves against them.
As states work to balance budgets and Midwestern states host political battles that hold the fates of union benefits for manufacturing and state employees, labor is seeing a troubled push and pull between workers who are struggling to match their wages with what the economy needs from them in terms of consumption.
Also of concern to regulators is the potential for banks and brokerage firms to use those trades to move bonds off their balance sheets by asking a third-party investor to hold the debt temporarily.
And when we learn that a major bank has serious problems, we will hold accountable those responsible, force the necessary adjustments, provide the support to clean up their balance sheets, and assure the continuity of a strong, viable institution that can serve our people and our economy.
The idea seems harmless: Financial institutions should adjust their balance sheets and their capital accounts when the market value of the financial assets they hold goes up or down.
While many validly fear that the downgrade may impact borrowing costs for our country, the larger potential risk, in my opinion, could be related to the types of assets that certain institutions (i.e. banks) can hold on their respective balance sheets.
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