Eventually that dense tangle will get worse, causing a top-heavy tree that can break under heavy snow or in high wind. |
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It is part of a restructuring of staff, which for the number of children at the school, was felt to be too top-heavy at senior level. |
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We wanted a roomy interior and the benefits of a high driving position, but we did not want to make the car look top-heavy. |
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Pension obligations were ballooning, while management clung to a top-heavy bureaucracy and its sprawling mills gobbled up cash for repairs. |
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Stake and support dahlias, gladioli, chrysanthemums and other top-heavy border plants. |
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Many have suffered for being perceived as part of big, top-heavy conglomerates instead of nimble, young start-ups. |
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She's a top-heavy temptress whose well-enhanced front end gets the lion's share of the amorous attention. |
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This has grown into tall stemmy shrubs, but not yet into mature top-heavy trees. |
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They say that Carroll sees the firm as top-heavy with lawyers and accountants. |
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It handles brilliantly thanks to the high, wide handlebars, though it is top-heavy at lower speed. |
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The record player is an old Victrola, with the railway-spike needle and a big top-heavy sound-horn, or whatever they're called. |
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They became top-heavy and turned over in the water, unable to right themselves. |
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The trucks looked top-heavy, and on any journey one was sure to see at least one fallen on its side, its cargo spilling onto the road. |
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The history of the decline of civilizations is not one of inadequate powers to tax, but of top-heavy parasitic bureaucracies. |
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Other buildings lurched under top-heavy weight as key supports on the first floors had been torn out. |
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Imagine then, the situation of the Ranger's crew, with a top-heavy and crank ship under their feet. |
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The Director-General remarked that it would take some time to correct the top-heavy staffing table in the Secretariat. |
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The Committee noted that this would result in a top-heavy structure that might be anomalous with the usual practice in the Court. |
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The report is also critical of a top-heavy agenda, poor coordination and irreconcilable priorities. |
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As armies shrank, their officer corps became grossly top-heavy and this itself created an obstacle to reform. |
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The vessel was reportedly considered top-heavy by some experienced fishermen in the area. |
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A top-heavy, tail-wagging public sector agency like the current set-up is no good for anyone. |
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Today, when he speaks to a top-heavy group of foreign economists and analysts in a Hinglish patois there is no trace of embarrassment. |
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This green, which hovers near the blues on the color wheel, can be a perfect antidote for a room that's top-heavy with warm, dark colors. |
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On the other hand, he saw first hand in Gore 2000 what can happen to a top-heavy, insidery operation. |
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The assembly has funded political parties, paid for 10 ministries, and sustained a top-heavy civil service who spend their salaries in the local shops. |
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The country in Yuba, Wisconsin is extremely hilly, and the tobacco tractor had a very high wheel base, making it too top-heavy to use on inclines. |
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At the same time, the top-heavy elements often seem to rest gracefully on a tiny base, balanced like a ballet dancer on pointe. |
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I'm at that stage where my body feels unnaturally lop-sided and top-heavy. |
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Jenssen's placement of thin, spiderweblike shapes beneath heavier bodies of color gives these works a top-heavy feel, as if they risk collapsing beneath their own weight. |
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The keyboard is stuck all the way at the bottom of the device, below the big 5-inch display, resulting in a seriously top-heavy design that makes it hard to type. |
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I opened the door and the two of them were either side of a stocky young top-heavy woman who bore an uncanny, slightly skewed resemblance to Samantha. |
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A top-heavy nurse in cricket pads and dangling overhead light pack struggles to aim a fire breathing generator in a duel with a whip-cracking foreman. |
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The police do a difficult job, and, generally, they do it well, despite their constant battles with top-heavy administration, resource shortfalls, and lack of staff. |
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The charity's staff claim the organisation is top-heavy, but that the management have failed to remain up-to-date with the latest legislation affecting asylum seekers. |
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However, there was still a major problem at the time. The school was in financial difficulties, with a top-heavy and expensive management team it could not sustain. |
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He believed, however, that the NHS was offering a deteriorating service, and he was not impressed by what he saw as top-heavy administrative plans for reorganisation. |
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While government has complained about the amount spent on paying teachers, why doesn't it look at the top-heavy administration and bureaucracy instead? |
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Saunders adds another ex-head coach and another layer of management to the top-heavy staff, and Washington's new-look receiving corps has an undeniable redundancy factor. |
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As an Irishman and an Englishspeaker, Martin was something of a rarity in the Vatican, which was top-heavy at the time with monoglot Italians. |
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Why is it that English textbooks, including the one I was sent, are top-heavy with hagiographies of our national leaders? |
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The staffing structure of the proposed support office was top-heavy and the template approach for providing logistics support for peacekeeping operations should be avoided. |
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It is bureaucratically top-heavy and reflects only official viewpoints. |
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They make you look top-heavy and overweight. |
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The Ramsar Convention had chosen a centralised approach to the regions but this had costs, and the Executive Secretary expressed the fear that if CMS continued to expand as it did, the organisation would become too top-heavy. |
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The weakness of the General Assembly means a weak Security Council in terms of legitimacy and support, because then the United Nations becomes top-heavy, unbalanced and, therefore, weak and lacking in legitimacy. |
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She has always had that top-heavy bosom, and now her pleasingly plump double chin is here to stay. |
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Throwing good money after bad, into the black hole of the stubbornly unreformed, bureaucratic, top-heavy NHS is a cruelty, not a kindness, to patients. |
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But eventually financing got too top-heavy. |
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This top-heavy state, the legacy of centripetal policies since the war, is no clunkier than the language of those keenest to reform it. |
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His top-heavy starlets grunted and hove in aerobicized ecstasy. |
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I think we are top-heavy and the Government is bleeding us dry. |
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As great as this sounds, it's bad news for certain kinds of top-heavy organizations and the kinds of companies that got rich on exclusion from information. |
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The demographic pyramid of the European Union is increasingly top-heavy, as survival rates rise and pension and health-care burdens grow accordingly. |
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Half a world away, in Jinja, Uganda, the focus was on decentralizing a top-heavy local political system, to make it easier to improve local services, to protect and improve the city's environment and surroundings. |
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There have been a lot of luxury style chocolate drinks in the past year, and the hot chocolate category is a little top-heavy now. |
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Talking-shops, such as the current crop of top-heavy reform committees, are known around the world for their tendency to drift into bureaucratic hokum. |
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Expansibility requires excess capacity during peacetime and top-heavy organizations to provide foundations for expansion. |
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We target local offices of multinational organizations which have based their technical or marketing teams here and don't want it to be a top-heavy operation or be bogged down with administrative tasks. |
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To say the Pittsburgh Penguins are a top-heavy club is an understatement.... The club is therefore completely reliant on Crosby and Co. to carry the mail up front. |
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Shapiro's throbbing and sobbing are top-heavy and, incidentally, the only feminine rhymes offered in the entire eighteen-line poem, and those in the wrong place. |
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