He sidled over to one of the boxes I had righted, and tried to tip it over.
Seasonal, environmental and demand-side factors have combined to accelerate the index's decline in recent months and could tip it further into the red.
The present political balance in America is poised so delicately between the parties that a single news development can tip it one way or the other.
The see-saw analogy holds: The heavier the weight on the bad end, the heavier the weight must be on the good end to balance and then tip it.
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Bergeron skated deep into the Rangers zone and then passed the puck across the crease to Marchand, who was waiting to tip it past Lundqvist for his second playoff goal.
Gerrard came close to opening the scoring when he collected a Torres pass and curled a dipping first-time strike towards goal, only for a back-tracking Brad Friedel to tip it over the bar.
Pundits had pronounced the party to be at the edge of the grave, into which the 82-year-old Mr Peres, who led it in five elections and never won outright, would surely tip it.
Located at Africa's westernmost tip, it is a funnel towards Europe for Latin American cocaine.
Driving towards the peninsula's tip, it's clear that human settlement has hardly made a scratch on this barren landscape.
Amare Stoudemire's tip made it 86-82 with 3:24 left and the Celtics never caught up, even after Jason Kidd missed a 3-pointer for the Knicks with 14 seconds remaining.
And so this is just the tip of it.
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It's now called a "Start Tip" as it isn't a proper button, but you can click on it and bring up the tiled Start Screen interface.
This is both harder and more of an adrenaline rush than it seems, because the sled likes to tip over and keeping it from doing so involves a lot of squatting and leaning, while going uphill means getting your weight off the sled and running behind, like pushing a grocery cart, to help the dogs.
In time the balance between native and foreign-born will surely tip, as it has already done in Fresno.
If you're taking a taxi in Chile or New Zealand, for example, the driver won't give you the evil eye if you don't tip -- it's not expected.
But it does have the power to tip the recovery back towards recession if it fails to break a political deadlock that was still unresolved as The Economist went to press.
It also allows it to tip off users to traffic jams, road construction and other obstacles.
But the needs are such that it will tip the balance, I hope.
Without really strong efficacy, any safety worry can tip the scales against it.
But with proper policing of exports and timely intelligence tip-offs, it will be a lot harder for cheats to escape detection.
He understood American power, in all its complexity, and believed that when it is applied with purpose and principle, it can tip the scales of history.
While a certain amount of inflation is a healthy sign of a growing economy, too much of it could tip a fragile economy into stagflation, in an extreme case.
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The former guerrillas, now a political party, have joined forces with three other parties, but their alliance is lying a very distant third (though it could tip the balance in a run-off).
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If only a fraction of the almost 15m first-time voters of 2008 (the vast majority of them Democrats) can be persuaded to turn out again, party organisers say, it could tip lots of races in their favour.
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It mattered because of all the hard work and money I invested in my studies thinking a good job awaited me. (Instead I found a pile of dirty dishes and a small tip.) But it was better than being on the unemployment line collecting benefits.
"The only way I can sum it up is like when you're trying to remember the name of a famous actor or film star and it's on the tip of your tongue, but you just can't get it, " he said.
It would be enough to tip the economy into recession, well, the global economy, and it my also be enough to really force the big importing nations to get much more aggressive in being involved in the affairs of these oil producers in the Middle East.
Noah scored on a tip-in that made it 87-85 with four minutes left.
This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to weirdness.
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Many see it as the tip of the spear for future regulation.
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