Recursive patterns several layers deep are used for example in balancing red-black trees, which involve cases that require looking at colors several layers deep.
While balancing between free and pay television, if the rights do not sell within sales windows, the rights may be sold on an individual basis to pay-per-view television broadcasters.
Product engineers improve the product quality and secure the product reliability by balancing cost of test and test coverage that could impact the production fall-off.
Finally, a number of forms of balancing selection exist, which do not result in fixation, but maintain an allele at intermediate frequencies in a population.