I hardly think that cancelling Yorkshire's HS2 line counts as levelling up, but must admit that the South has its troubles too - particularly in London, where Transport for London is facing the prospect of cutting services to balance its books, as the pandemic continues to deter passengers and government appears unwilling to help.

Let us not balance the books of oppression of the deaf on the backs and minds of other oppressed linguistic ethnic and cultural minorities.

If you want to make a negatively charged particle, such as an electron, out of energy, you also have to make a positively charged particle to balance the books.

When you broke one of his rules, you had to sacrifice something to earn forgiveness or to balance the books.

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