I cannot see how the unequal representation which is given to masses on account of wealth becomes the means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquility of the common wealth.    From LearnThat.org. 

Clute's concept of "equipoise" is important to those types of stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Fiction 8] Reference

Or would it be more powerful to leave the truth unknown, leave the play in equipoise, an exemplar of Todorov's fantastique?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modality and Hamlet] Reference

I am not a "follower" or "joiner," but the one thing I received that day was exactly what the word equipoise defines: a state of balance and poise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Hope Rothstein: What's Your Word Of The Year For 2011?] Reference

"follower" or "joiner," but the one thing I received that day was exactly what the word equipoise defines: a state of balance and poise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

The definition of "equipoise" according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Hope Rothstein: What's Your Word Of The Year For 2011?] Reference

The first time I heard the word "equipoise" was in an all-day Siddha Yoga Intensive with the Siddha Guru, Gurumayi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Hope Rothstein: What's Your Word Of The Year For 2011?] Reference

His equipoise under pressure is powerfully reassuring.    From Wordnik.com.  [John O'Neil: Why Voters Must Favor a Healer as Leader] Reference

In retrospect, I was mistaking equipoise for blandness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tennis Genius] Reference

And her person had the equipoise and symmetry of her mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference

To restore the equipoise must be the object of all treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

While as sentient beings, equipoise and the post equipoise states are sequential.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shantideva's Compendium of Precepts (Laptu) and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Chod-jug] Reference

When news emerged of the missing manuscript, every side discarded any remaining equipoise.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Ilustrado'] Reference

I discern in you certain qualities of mind that may serve to regulate the equipoise of mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference

The country seems to have reached an uneasy equipoise on abortion rights: some, but not too much.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abortion’s New Battleground] Reference

As a result, then, of their being evenly matched, their hopes and consequent zeal were in perfect equipoise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference

French had taken a saner view of the situation, for the coffee was just what was needed to restore her equipoise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

Inward and outward are in equipoise; he does not make frequent prayers atone for equally frequent lapses in duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference

Both are intelligent natures endued with the power of self - motion, and the same equipoise is maintained in both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timaeus] Reference

They experience nirvana without residue only during total absorption (mnyam-bzhag, meditative equipoise) on voidness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twelve Links of Dependent Arising ��� Day Three: The Last Five Links and the Mechanism of Samsara] Reference

Would "fairness and balance" require hiring identifiable left-of-center figures as hosts to assure ideological equipoise?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: GOP Frontrunners Still Edging Out Top Dems] Reference

Not at my time of life does the constitution, pushed from its equipoise by long enduring disease, regain it amid the struggles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"] Reference

The war requires a more unified command structure: a chieftan Hughes, is about to leave, disturbing the equipoise of the old arrangement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Politics: Why Card's Star Is On The Rise] Reference

They see the foam-crest on the wave, and picture an Atlantic Ocean of froth, and not the solemn sea that stands below in eternal equipoise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference

These were days when the parallel ideas of a balance of trade and the equipoise of the English constitution had already been gaining currency.    From Wordnik.com.  [BALANCE OF POWER] Reference

They are the two truths about such a mental continuum, however, only during total absorption cognition of voidness (mnyam-bzhag, meditative equipoise).    From Wordnik.com.  [Relationships between Two Objects in Anuttarayoga Tantra] Reference

The men stared, even our hero for just one instant lost his equipoise, but he recovered when like a wink he asked, as though no one had entered the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar the Detective Or, Dudie Dunne, The Exquisite Detective] Reference