So why the top-heavy presence of foreign corporations?. From Wordnik.com. [The $87 Billion Money Pit] Reference
His knees were shaky, his pulse feeble, his head top-heavy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference
But it made it top-heavy, and the first rough sea capsized it. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
This year's edition of Rock the Bells is top-heavy with nostalgia. From Wordnik.com. [Taking sides: The hip-hop classic we're most looking forward to at Rock the Bells] Reference
For states that have been top-heavy since colonial days, this is radical. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
His long, thin frame top-heavy in his mail, de Gobignon fell over backward. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Despite the tidy finish, the stock market is still top-heavy and overvalued. From Wordnik.com. [Bottom Fishing] Reference
It presents the appearance of a very top-heavy head on a very spindling stem. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911] Reference
"I should think his craft would be top-heavy, and over he would go," says some reader. From Wordnik.com. [Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories] Reference
The accident was caused by the Netherlands carriages being poorly built and top-heavy. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Part in a Revolution] Reference
And the worst of it is, that he has a kind of top-heavy and overwhelming good-nature about him. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891] Reference
By almost any measure, the military is more top-heavy an institution than it has been for decades. From Wordnik.com. [Pentagon push to phase out top brass causing much consternation] Reference
It floated pretty buoyantly on the water, though its high back seemed to make it a little top-heavy. From Wordnik.com. [The Island House A Tale for the Young Folks] Reference
For those men who stand on dignity are top-heavy things, pigmies upon stilts, triangles upside down. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
The truth was that already the weight of the top-heavy household had fallen upon the girl's shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
And over the years, he believes, philanthropy, like the U.S. economy itself, has become more top-heavy. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Charity Crisis] Reference
So tall a vent-pipe, however, seriously raises the centre of gravity of the bell and may make it top-heavy. From Wordnik.com. [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference
Perhaps, however, it was less liable to overturn, for its load ballasted it, and rendered it less top-heavy. From Wordnik.com. [The Island House A Tale for the Young Folks] Reference
We were headed roughly in the direction of the Rebel's fourth sector, the one top-heavy with metals industries. From Wordnik.com. [A Question of Courage] Reference
This keeps the room from seeming top-heavy and gives the necessary feeling of support for the wall and ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
The whole plant has a somewhat top-heavy appearance (see Fig. 16), but I never saw it broken down by the weather. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
The London Association, having completed its top-heavy organization, was content with that act and showed no life. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
Since the dip was the result of cooled accretions, it was always top-heavy -- much bigger at the nose than the base. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
A viral email buzzed around the nets and blogs for a time that pounded her for her high-salaried and top-heavy staff. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Hatin' on Michelle] Reference
The shift to more-open corporate leadership has not, however, changed the top-heavy shape of the South Korean economy. From Wordnik.com. [Rolling in the Dough] Reference
It seemed, indeed, to Becky, as if he were too shining and splendid, as if he bulked too big, like a giant, top-heavy. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
Narval's massive body, pear-shaped and tapering into short legs and diminutive feet, shuffled forward in top-heavy gait. From Wordnik.com. [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference
This program is top-heavy with bureaucracy in the federal Health Care Financing Administration, the agency that runs Medicare. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bush Unveils Health Care Plan - September 5, 2000] Reference
The sun will be at work on it; it will get undermined by the wash of the breakers, until, being top-heavy, it will speedily capsize. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral] Reference
The guys greenlighting projects are looking for sure-fire international fare, top-heavy with thrills, that will play in any language. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood: We Stink] Reference
They matched the top-shelf and perhaps top-heavy Kerry campaign stride for stride in rushing printed rebuttals into the press room during the event. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Why Dean Is Still The Democrat To Watch] Reference
Indeed, they searched the animal kingdoms for unkind comparisons: "a clumsy top-heavy red lobster," wrote one; "an uncoordinated ostrich," said another. From Wordnik.com. [Good Enough For The Majors] Reference
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