She caught sight of the old tyre-swing hanging lopsided from an outstretched branch. |
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In the second half, though, the lopsided nature of proceedings threatened to become an embarrassment. |
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He was about seventy, with suspenders over a short-sleeved shirt and a lopsided bow tie. |
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The conical shape of a volcano became visible at first, its top slightly lopsided from the last time it erupted. |
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Mitch turned up the collar of his black polo shirt, giving her a lopsided smile. |
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He kept them there just a second too long before dropping them to his sides with a lopsided grin. |
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The lopsided star was a little bigger than my palm and silver-ish in color. |
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The Sultans delivered a decisive blow in the second inning with seven runs and cruised to a lopsided victory. |
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He leaned back, folded his arms across his broad chest, and gave his sister a lopsided grin. |
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Yet the damage done by his grotesquely lopsided report vastly outweighs the gravity of the offence. |
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He had the same lopsided grin he sported to make people laugh at his antics. |
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The lopsided vote for Libya, including all those cowardly European abstentions, speaks volumes about the UN's character. |
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He extended his winning streak to six rounds with a lopsided win over Scotty Cannon before being bushwhacked by Capps in round two. |
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The Nepali cap, with its peak offset from the center, giving it a slightly lopsided look, completes the outfit. |
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She is tomboyish, flat chested, skinny, with lopsided lips and a smile that opens like a Venus flytrap. |
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Architects known as Blobmeisters create buildings that look like enormous lopsided candy apples. |
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They showed up for a home date with Miami on December 12 and sleepwalked through a lopsided loss. |
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He gave me his famous lopsided smile and I suddenly knew what it felt like to be one of those girls who swooned at the sight of him. |
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He would, I think, have justified his lopsided perspective on the grounds that he was a biologist, not a historian. |
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The resulting lopsided casualty counts have a great deal to do with this skill imbalance. |
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In the most recent operation surgeons had to pull her leg down by an inch because her pelvis had moved, which gave her a lopsided walk. |
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He waited for what seemed to be hours before the priest came up the creaking, lopsided ladder. |
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I watch as he tilted his head to one side giving me that same infuriating lopsided grin of his. |
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She quickly brings her arms stiffly to her sides and flashes a lopsided smile, her heavy jaw clenched. |
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Simon adjusted his lopsided top hat, tilting it even more than it had been in the first place. |
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He gave me a lopsided grin, and walked into his room, shutting the door after him. |
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Such a lopsided result defies the laws of probability and suggests something sinister at work. |
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She imagines his brown hair spiky and lopsided, like the last time she saw him. |
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A lopsided car would be a car with a higher load on one side than on the other. |
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Some fine forward play and lax marking contributed to this lopsided score line. |
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His face wore a lopsided grin, and he crouched down near the fire and set to work upon the other shoe. |
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Even so, the ratio of native to non-native speakers of English is a lopsided one to three. |
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A lopsided basketball goal was a good ten yards away from the person who Lazarus recognized as Sam. |
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He was a bit taller than me, with dark brown spiked hair, freckles, a lopsided smile and strange amber eyes. |
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Be it Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad or any of the state capitals, development is lopsided and unplanned. |
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Now one thing that might work in his advantage in California is there's an even more lopsided margin on the Democratic side. |
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His weak, thin, arms, and lopsided shoulders would have presented exactly the sort of impression that the Tudor writers gave him. |
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So the entire world pretty much doesn't care if they fight every day, just as long as the frag count for each side doesn't become too lopsided or uneven. |
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The business end of the rugby league season starts tonight, and, if the market framers and punters are right, then get ready for a couple of lopsided matches. |
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Casey glanced at me now and shot me a lopsided, sheepish grin. |
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Glentoran and Port Talbot are each left with mountains to climb after lopsided first-leg defeats in their UEFA Europa league qualifiers. |
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The combined eleven were fairly and squarely whacked, but the game never looked half as lopsided as the score-sheet. |
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Riding down the moving sidewalk, I got a better look at Ryan, walking lopsided, laptop case dragging down one shoulder. |
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Tristan Bauer's cinematic drama puts the reality of war, the lopsided battles and warmonger brutality, in front of our eyes. |
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Even the smallest lopsidedness affects the horse and easily makes his back lopsided, too. |
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The lopsided emphasis on material goods is bound to have a detrimental effect on our society. |
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Then the following night I noticed the phase had very slightly shifted to make a lopsided lilt. |
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Our representative ignored our opposition to accepting the lopsided deal that eliminated all our bargaining power. |
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When you master both lopsided versions, try to figure out how to switch back and forth between them without stopping. |
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Progress in the area of human rights in Sierra Leone has been lopsided in favour of civil and political rights. |
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It also seriously distorts the allocation of funds, and thus leads to lopsided development in the economy as a whole. |
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This lopsided distribution of projects reflects the very high number of high-speed rail projects undertaken during the period. |
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A concern raised during the plenary session was that China's relationship with Africa might be lopsided. |
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Despite such a lopsided vote in the House, the measure will die in the Senate. |
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The weapons rarely hit their targets, and the death toll has been lopsided against them. |
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Back in Far Rockaway, some locals are frustrated with what they say is a lopsided set of rebuilding priorities. |
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The animal threw up its forelegs and plunged ahead in a frantic lopsided gallop, kicking like a donkey, dragging the carriage from one side of the highway to the other. |
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Using his rapier-like jab and speed afoot, Ali earned a lopsided decision in a bout that was physically much tougher than the final outcome indicates. |
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In return I flashed the lopsided grin of a fool in an amusement park. |
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Such a lopsided assertion that you shouldn't rest players can be contradicted by considering any of the many times United rested players and still won. |
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Such a lopsided half-time score for St Johnstone was difficult to fathom. |
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Forget the university, here comes the lopsided multiversity. |
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While the lopsided score may look discouraging to Warrior fans, it is important to consider the bevy of national calibre talent that McMaster has when passing final judgment. |
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Theirs is a nonrivalry of sorts, considering the many lopsided outcomes of past encounters between them, but it always proves to be intriguing. |
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Vladimir Novak, the Vice President of the Union of Small and Medium Size Business of the Sverdlovsk Oblast, claims that a cluster, although a lopsided one, already exists in the sector but there is little use of it so far. |
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But when a smaller player tangles with a much larger opponent you do everything you can, as soon as you can, to stop the lopsided skirmish before it gets much worse. |
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Civilization is lopsided in its development. |
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When a double-handed person turned, the ropes would hit against each other, spiraling in lopsided arcs. |
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The result was a lopsided victory with 4000 Spanish casualties to only 1000 dead and 700 wounded on the Dutch side. |
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Enrolment is also lopsided in favour of boys. |
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Every country needs to establish its own balanced approach in order to avoid a lopsided development focus when using aid to achieve the internationally agreed development goals. |
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The result would look sort of like a lopsided ice-cream cone. |
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A lopsided contest in which the challenger, by reason of impecuniosity, had to abandon his defence in the midstream of the trial would not lay the issue to rest. |
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The concept of internationalization, while it has its positive aspects, relies on the notion of economic flows, and we can say that the flows between North and South are either oneway or highly lopsided. |
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By extension, collaboration on a bilateral or multilateral basis may put an emerging donor in a lopsided relationship with a more powerful traditional donor. |
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It has, in fact, gained recognition, however belatedly, in the domestic sphere, where it had long seemed virtually incompatible with the lopsided relationship between the State and its subjects. |
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Nevertheless, the facility is a step forward, but I must re-emphasise that it is still a lopsided mechanism, because it only funds action after the event. |
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Unfortunately, the book is rather too lopsided towards the former. |
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Having footslogged through the desert she has a disorienting night in a hotel room, where her rather lopsided upbringing starts to make life difficult. |
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It is the first time a player has signed a contract extension before appearing in his first major-league game, and it is probably the deal most lopsided in an employer's favour since the dawn of free agency. |
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He successfully defended his EBU title against Ismail Abdoul in a lopsided 12 round decision. |
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Wind-wounded, lopsided now Our mighty beech has lost an arm. |
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The usual lopsided Bedford trucks, bullock carts, auto rickshaws, slaloming hatchbacks and scooter swarms that infest every highway I have ever travelled on in India were conspicuous by their absence. |
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Word of the Knights' lopsided victories spread around Chicago. |
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Khan is a lopsided favourite – the oddsmakers have made Algieri an 8-1 underdog – but cannot afford a lapse when so tantalisingly close to boxing's topmost tier. |
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Only about one out of every 80 sturgeons caught in the Sacramento River is a Green Sturgeon, and that lopsided ratio is reversed for sturgeons taken in the Klamath River. |
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Although Hopkins did not give them a toe-to-toe classic, he was nevertheless brilliant in winning a lopsided decision over Eastman to retain his four championship belts. |
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It is the only building where the lights shine from windows at night, not far from the lopsided pup tents and dented cardboard boxes that sprout on sidewalks like mushrooms. |
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Mayweather, who won his first world title in the super-featherweight division, comprehensively outboxed the come-forward Baldomir to earn lopsided 120-108, 118-110 verdicts. |
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Other cross-species mutualisms have turned out to have a lopsided power balance in which one partner, often a plant, can kill a misbehaving helper. |
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