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In years to come, economists and historians might hark back to this week as the moment the balance of world power tipped toward China.

Like a game of dice, the garden cubes contain smaller cubes tipped on edge on a grass carpet, each one full of flowering plants.

While filming with a video camera, the team tipped the tank on its side so that the spiders either stayed put or slipped just a bit.

"This year, the scales are tipped, " he said. "And I think you're going to see a lot of Republicans voting for Obama this year. "

One day, however, the bottle tipped over and she released her grip on the dog for just a moment to wipe up the mess.

Mr Mubarak's son Gamal is often tipped as the old man's successor.

The skinny man said he was more polite because he always tipped his hat to ladies.

Smelling the aroma of a festive meal, he figured that someone from the office had called his wife and tipped her off.

And Chinese exports, which had been growing steadily after last autumn's collapse, tipped down once again.

There was an artful configuration of a sink that, when filled, could be tipped up so that its contents would spill into the toilet below.

Daisy's face, tipped sideways beneath a three-cornered lavender hat, looked out at me with a bright ecstatic smile.

A three-story building has been tipped over on its side and the only sign of its former existence is the hollowed shell made of metal beams.

And if I had a quarter for every person who's told me he or she now tipped more generously, I would be able to start my own foundation.

Throw-out: A folded, tipped page which opens out to a size larger than the book size. Also called Foldout, Gatefold.

Jenkinson arrived from Charlton in the summer and has helped ease the Gunners' injury crisis at the back, and is tipped to be a future star.

but then something strange happened, at some mysterious and critical point, the crime rate began to turn, it tipped.

A waitress's lipstick or lack of it appeared to make no difference in how female patrons tipped.

Chelsea are being tipped to go back in for Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini after failing with a summer swoop.

"Michael and Randy don't want you just to witness their ceremony, " said the minister, a petite lesbian with spiky platinum-tipped hair.

the weapons of the standing soldiers are the spear tipped halberd and crossbow; the general also occupies the middle, in command.

despite the publication date not being known , the book is tipped to be a big seller , like the rest in the series.

The spy was tipped off that the secret meeting would be held in London.

Someone unknown tipped off the police about the plan to rob the bank.

She would become a fairy godmother, with a sparkling pink dress, a golden crown, and a magic wand tipped with a shining star.

Sure, there was one other guy who tipped the scales above 200 pounds, but he was tougher, more Irish, less nerdy.

Then a board tipped up and the body slipped the few feet from a lowered aircraft carrier elevator into the sea.

With a mocking air, he tipped his cap towards relatives of some of his alleged victims in the public gallery.

After the words were complete, the body was placed on a prepared flat board, tipped up, and the deceased body eased into the sea.

Bajrami's decision to move to Holland shocked many in Sweden, as he was tipped to move to one of Europe's biggest leagues.

But Bush and his wife, Laura, had been tipped off and were waiting outside for them.

Hibiscus flowers are yellow-tipped stamens and continuously as if a gold in the under petals exceptionally beautiful background.

The canoe tipped over, but fortunately we were able to swim across the river.

This enables the drums, on leaving the chamber, to be tipped into a chipper and then into a heated tank.

The young man, who tipped off the authorities about the bodies at the ranch, is an Ecuadorian and managed to escape being killed.

It certainly looks that way, although it is worth recalling that it was not that long ago that Japan was tipped to be the new number one.

Arsenal have been tipped to make a move for the former Inter Milan star as they seek more firepower up front following Thierry Henry's exit.

Mr Panetta has said Islamabad was deliberately not told of the raid out of fear bin Laden would be tipped off.

No doubt the familiar roar of the engine had tipped him off to my approach.

He stood with the umbrella until we were in and I had tipped him.

Last season, City were heavily tipped to make it into Europe's elite competition but were edged out of fourth place by Tottenham.

She wondered if someone from the office had tipped him off, or. . . did he just somehow know that she would not get turned down?

within two years she had won the BRIT Awards' Critics' Choice prize and been tipped by the BBC as the "Sound of 2008" .

His shimmering train of feathers tipped with eye-shaped spots ranks among the most cited examples of what Darwin called sexual selection.

She also tipped Yang Wei, arguably the leading gymnast of the moment, to dominate his exercises and lead the team to gold.

The leather creaked when he flexed the soles, and the laces looked like coiled snakes. Each toe was tipped with a small steel plate.

The sun's magnetic field near Earth has tipped south, opening a crack in Earth's magnetic defenses against the solar wind.

Twist drills are usually made of high-speed steel, although carbide-tipped drills are also available.

Had these people tipped a tanker load of bleach into the headwaters of the river Finn, they would have done less damage.

Mr Davis has been tipped for a return to frontline politics if the Tories win the general election.

The centre-left is now tipped to win a forthcoming presidential election, mainly because voters feel the need to protect the poor.

Hours is one of 10 films up for best picture, an award The King's Speech has been tipped to win by The Hollywood Reporter.

The breakthrough occurred on Monday afternoon when investigators were tipped off that an Anhui boy resembled one of the wanted teens.

A cartoon shows parents coming home to find their house trashed: lamps broken, food scraps all over the floor, plants tipped over.

China is being tipped to end the reign of the United States as the leading Olympic nation at the Beijing Games.

c. She just tipped the ball with her tennis racket.

c. Measure depth of pressure ulcer using a sterile cotton-tipped applicator or other device that will allow a measurement of wound depth.

They have deep turquoise eyes, and each hand is capped with finned or suction-cup tipped fingers.

The Privy Council tipped the promoters of the company to go ahead .

Taxi drivers and porters have set charges and do not expect to be tipped.

The book is tipped to be a big seller, like the rest in the series.

That Mrs Clinton, of all people, should adopt such a restrained tone shows just how far things have tipped in Beijing's favour.

The United States and Australia had been tipped as favorites alongside Qatar for 2022. Japan and South Korea were also in the running.

The converter is tipped on to its side and the charge of molten iron is poured into the top.

He tipped his chin to Hassan. "Hey, Flat-Nose, " he said. "How is Babalu? "

The election is widely tipped to be a referendum on his many China-friendly policies.

"The police were tipped off that there would be bomb attacks near Government House, " said Police Major General Prawut Thavornsiri.

Use the thin-tipped pen to go over the outline of your drawing or letters. Press firmly.

The demons tipped over their container, and boiling liquid poured down on Desdel and his nearby companions.

I tipped the pail and there was a foul, gurgling splash followed by another and unexpected splash.

After 35 years of stroking first with my left hand, I had developed a habit of pushing off with my body tipped onto my right side.

This sequence of events raises the worrisome suspicion that Iraq had been tipped off to the forthcoming inspections at Taji (ph).

Within minutes it had tipped 2m cubic metres of water from a reservoir onto the township of Cirendeu, just outside Jakarta.

Marker: An implement, especially a felt-tipped pen, used for marking or writing.

Then she practiced English hard-tipped calligraphy for a while.

There is a fine line between self-interest and selfishness and the balance of dharma tipped the wrong way.

Therefore, during road construction, the problems need to be handled carefully, including excavation, tipped fill, drainage, etc.

The placement or discarding of the lens can be readily automated by selecting the rate at which the cell is tipped.

With a craftsman's rigour, he lamented that you couldn't get proper, thick, brown rope these days, or red-tipped matches that exploded.

The global economy is now paying an exceedingly steep price for having tipped the scales on already dangerous imbalances.

It has even been shown that waitresses who touch patrons tend to be tipped more generously.

The European centre-left tipped up in Oslo the other day to chart the future of progressive governance.

He swayed and toppled and landed on the edge of Wilbur's trough. The trough tipped up and then came down with a slap.

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As soon as Ratko Mladic entered, he tipped his hat and gave a thumbs up to the public gallery.

"The balance has tipped pretty dramatically, " Pipas said of the U. S. auto industry.

The operation began after an internet provider in Berlin tipped off authorities when he noticed very large data transfers.

Trunk to 50 cm d. b. h. Branchlets densely puberulent with a few much longer hairs, usually tipped with slender inconspicuous spines.

Taxi drivers and proters have set charges and do not expect to be tipped.

A second instar nymph can eat 15 reddish-tipped prominent moth eggs a day and an adult 15 pine caterpillars, several times its own weight.

Because of not being able to cope with everyday life they were tipped over the edge into breakdown.

Early on Mr Mousavi, who, supporters say, was tipped off by allies within the Ministry of Interior, proclaimed himself the likely winner.

What tipped them from middle-class lifestyles to incomes just above the poverty line was likely to have been one or all of three factors.

Someone tipped off the police that the thief was hiding in the garage.

Use fine-tipped tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin as possible and gently but firmly pull it straight out.

Between the branches and leaves dark green, red petals children, pink-tipped stamens yellow, attract bees buzzing.

Fox beak big ears, long body short legs, dragging behind him a long-tailed, red-brown body, hard of hearing black, tipped white.

To "disconnect" it from the digit I tipped a small peace of the segment with a black CD felt pen.

During a ceasefire in 2006 someone from Mr Rubalcaba's interior ministry tipped off some ETA men who were about to be arrested.

The 39-year-old was once tipped to succeed Kim Jong-il before trying to sneak into Japan to go to Disneyland.

Both Mr Tsang and Mr Tang are tipped as forerunners in the race for the next chief executive.

A month's continuous high-temperature climate tipped the drought in Jiangxi Province over the edge into more seriousness.

The recent wave of corporate downsizing and research cutbacks in the U. S. has also tipped the scales.

I'm not saying the visit tipped the balance, but it was helpful having that as a credential.

Please buy tow packets of Zhonghua cigarettes (filter tipped)and a box of match for me.

The boat tipped dangerously.

To remove a tick, use thin-tipped tweezers or forceps to grasp the tick as close to the skin surface as possible.

The man remained in jail until Zdzierak's girlfriend tipped police off after finding money and a mask in his hotel room.

The unlucky heifer was exploring the drum of a fly-tipped washing machine when its head became trapped.

A two - foot - long drill bit tipped the end of a brontosaurus -like creature's long neck.

He tipped the money in his pocket on to the counter.

This tipped the scales against the small reinforcement required for the attack on Rhodes.

Perhaps Warren Buffett, once tipped for the job, would have done better, though Mr Obama was probably wise to pass him over.

At meetings and conferences, filter-tipped cigarettes were standard features on the podium alongside writing pads, pencils and ashtrays.

The majority of the celebrities with whom he had tipped glasses in his day as manager hailed from this self-centred and populous spot.

It was the deer's suddenly raised tails that tipped me off: tiger time.

And James Purnell, tipped as a future Labour leader when he was work and pensions secretary under Gordon Brown, has quit aged 40.

Jock tipped the water out of his bucket.

These include Malaysia, which is regarded as the next emerging market where online travel booking is tipped to boom in the coming years.

His soldiers also had the advantage of very long spears of about six meters in length, tipped with steel.

Stephen Crainey has already been tipped to lodge an appeal, while Matthew Gilks is studying the fine print of his deal.

Seoul shocked the world by trouncing the French and is widely tipped to become the reactor supplier of choice to the developing world.

Use the colored felt-tipped pens to add color and details. The last step is the most fun. Enjoy wearing your new T-shirt!

This, the jury said in its explanation of the sentence, tipped the balance in favour of conviction.

It uses electronic tags: recycling bins are weighed as they are tipped into collection lorries and their ID numbers logged by computer.

Wang Qishan, the mayor of Beijing, who was elevated into the politburo, has been tipped to take responsibility for the financial sector.

The scale should and will always be tipped in favor of openness, but tipping the scale over completely serves no one's interests.

c. Father tipped Dick the wink as a sign for him to keep still.

My neighbour had tipped dead leaves over the wall into my garden.

This time he was tipped over by his buddies.

Methods Using blunt-tipped infiltration needle, the deformity was repaired by transplant with the fat granule from the patient's body.

Miss Bakere nodded at me, and then she quickly tipped her head back again.

Below are five are five of my top GNOME Shell theme picks from those we've featured or been 'tipped' about recently.

What may have finally tipped the balance, dam critics say, is a severe drought affecting swathes of central and eastern China.

The SEC alleged Ms. Wang, a 45-year-old Beijing resident, and possibly others, had been tipped off about the impending Pearson takeover.

Mother tipped the slops out of the bucket into the sink.

a committee member tipped off the plan of city future development to the reporter.

Stems many from base, prostrate, internodes with some branched, slightly pinkish red, blunt-tipped, adventitious roots.

He tipped the waiter a quarter, and spent fifty cents for a package of Egyptian cigarettes.

Maybe if Mandy had tipped the attendant more, she would have divulged the ailment that would soon slaughter her father.

Green foliage of golden flowers out, hidden in petals of orange-tipped stamens can be beautiful!

She tipped the money in her purse onto the table.

Earlier in the tournament, the eight-legged oracle correctly tipped Germany to beat Ghana and Australia in their Group D matches.

Whales die in prolonged unimaginable agony as blunt tipped harpoons smash into their backsides and shred internal organs.

Her powerful limbs ended in five-toed feet, tipped with curved claws providing excellent purchase on the sandstone surfaces.

Fiat's CEO, Sergio Marchionne, has already been tipped as a frontrunner of the chief executive of the new Chrysler.

Leaf blade elliptic, rarely narrowly elliptic, abaxially tomentose or glabrescent, margin entire or with inconspicuous, gland-tipped teeth.

You obviously feel they deserved to win it, but what do you think tipped it in your favour?

As DVD players became more prevalent, and the number of discs for rent increased, the market tipped and DVDs came to dominate VHS.

Mr. Smith is being widely tipped to succeed the next President.

Bracts entire at apex; young leaf blade gland-tipped or dentate only distally, elliptic to broadly elliptic and serrate in fruit.

He is tipped these days as a possible chancellor if Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, and the vote has improved his prospects.

It's one that previously has not sprung to mind when thinking of the snow-tipped Alps.

William's brother Prince Harry, 22, was tipped to beat him to getting down on one knee.

After the flight, Biggs was attacked by a Tusken Raider with a poison-tipped gaderffii.

He put down his tumbler, and deliberately struck a match; then with even greater deliberation he lit a gold-tipped cigarette .

Alexander tipped the tiny baby with the tip of his finger.

Sometimes she talked a blue streak in the bus, sometimes she just sat and smoked her Herbert Tareyton cigarettes (cork-tipped).

He and an older person were caught in a storm, and their boat tipped over.

She tipped a handful of pills into my mouse and passed me a glass of water.

When she escaped back to Lithuania, her childhood friend tipped off the gang members.

Its world line is tipped at the angle corresponding to the speed of light .

He was tipped out of the cart into the ditch.

The balance should be tipped toward practical courses in school curriculums.

large deep-water shark with white-tipped dorsal fin; worldwide distribution; most dangerous shark.

NICK: at any rate, we land, we meet my guy. Even if we don't find the person who tipped off the cops, we find his phone.

However, Yeh Sheng-mao tipped off to choose the way of documents to Chen Shui-bian, also own copies of the end of stay.

Analytics ability to track & easily display percentage of deals tipped, categories, etc.

They were presumably tipped off by their Croatian colleagues.

Both are full brothers of Crown Prince Sultan, and have been widely tipped as second and third in line to the throne.

Medieval weapons tipped with steel spikes or sharp beaks probably caused these wounds, she proposes.

The utility model provides a tipping-proof alcohol lamp which can prevent the alcohol lamp from being tipped over.

The largest of its legs come tipped with heavy uranium stabilizers that can axe into bedrock to secure stable purchase.

The new car is tipped to be based on a compact RWD platform currently development at GM called Alpha.

It could fire missiles at American bases or Israel, perhaps tipped with chemical or biological weapons.

indumentum of simple hairs and gland-tipped hairs or sessile peltate-stellate hairs with central cells.

But Jamaican police were tipped off and stopped Mr Coke, dressed in a wig and hat, en route.

but researchers later concluded that it simply tipped into an even bigger lake.

What happened at the Stade de France tipped the balance in favour of the Spanish club.

Bookstore Barnes and Noble and the online movie site Netflix have both been tipped as possible targets, said Mr. Ashdown.

When we climbed up over the ridge leaving Yoroido, the wheel passed over a rock and the wagon tipped to one side quite suddenly.

I tipped the bottle over carelessly, but luckily it was not broken.

Since technical pens often clog when used over waxy colored pencils, it is hest to use felt-tipped and ordinary fountain pens .

The driver seats in both cars tipped forward, but only in the Yaris did the steering wheel move excessively.

Andrew Rawnsley, of the Observer commented: 'And the foul stuff was duly tipped over him. '

When triggered , these cells eject poison- tipped barbs that help the jellyfish catch food in the ocean .

has large leaves with triangular spiny tipped lobes and coarse-grained wood less durable than that of white oaks.

In one charming early experiment, children were given felt-tipped pens to play with, an activity that most enjoyed.

Plants deciduous; leaf blade margin with simple, double, or incised gland-tipped teeth.

(I got a vodka-cranberry and tipped the gallerista-turned-bartender $1. ) No, I was impressed by the art itself.

Some Yukos executives still at liberty were, according to one rumour, tipped off by Litvinenko about plots laid against them.

Her greater experience tipped the balance in her favour and she got the job.

Suitable Occasions: oral, informal James tipped his hat, "Always at your service, Ma'am. "

Whoever tipped off the cops about Lincoln Burrows called from this number.

Although India has long been tipped as the most likely threat to US academic supremacy, the study found it now lags well behind China.

Clinton advisers have not tipped their hand about what banking changes they may recommend.

Inappropriate or harmful interventions are cotton-tipped swabs , oral jet irrigators, and ear candling.

He pulled the cork , and tipped up the bottle and drank.

he had forgotten how fast the visual media , once tipped off , could cover a breaking story.

Although they are very dirty and abraded, the tertials are rather broadly white-tipped.

The other kind stab their prey with a spikey-tipped arm.

Ovary apex deeply depressed, crown large, with flat gland-tipped trichomes.

They would start "rumours" by word of mouth, warning the person they tipped off to keep their lips zipped .

Buds glabrous or pubescent with crisped, straight, capitate and clavately tipped glandular hairs.

Formula One's political crisis is tipped to end in the middle of this week.

The police were tipped off about their plan to hijack the plane.

White cherry blossoms that there are two, one is surrounded by five petals flowers, shaped like wine, yellow-tipped stamens, there were 17!

Young branchlets glabrous or with slightly appressed hairs at base, sometimes obscurely spine-tipped.

Since this is impossible through the economy or conventional military, nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles are his only option.

I tipped about the future as well as some pasts . Fang threw her gaze onto me, I pretended to make a deep breath.

He tipped the wink to the police about a stolen car.

Stipules lanceolate to narrowly lorate, soon caducous, margin gland-tipped fimbriate.

A rogue gust of wind tipped over a semi and tore off its roof in Michigan.

You've patriotically tipped Kate Winslet for best actress, and sympathetically given Mickey Rourke a nod for best actor.

The ship tipped to one side.

China is widely tipped to overtake Japan as the world's second biggest economy this year.

Stipules linear to oblong-lanceolate, ca. 6 mm, soon caducous after anthesis, margin gland-tipped fimbriate.

Many people-including some astronomers-are understandably nervous about putting a standby squadron of nuclear tipped missiles in place.

Until recently, he tipped the scales at around 420 pounds. Airlines had to fit special seats for him.

The Case for Using Blunt - Tipped Lightning Rods as Strike Receptors .

The former was of gold and ship pointed, the latter blunt and tipped with lead.

When tipped at a certain angle, the code was visible in the mirror.

They ignored us, until we tipped off reporters from the local television network.

Marie Eaton, 42, tipped the scales at 50 stone two years ago - five stone more than her husband and four children combined.

The American declaration of war in 1917 turned (tipped) the scale against Germany.

Passer-by: Of course, the throng of children in mittens should have tipped me off.

Cork is the son of former Wimbledon star Alan Cork and he is tipped for big things in the game.

Colvin said U. S. authorities tipped off police last week that a catamaran carrying cocaine was headed for Australia from South America.

YOUNG WILLIE was trying hard to right a tipped wagon filled with corn.

The recession, however, has tipped the industry into full-scale crisis.

He tipped the launching schedule of the product to the press.

Since he couldn't cope with everyday life, he was tipped over the edge into breakdown.

A walking stick tipped with a metal spike.

Former Brazil manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has tipped new signing Anderson to make a big splash at Old Trafford.

One or more electrode-tipped wires run from the pacemaker through your blood vessels to your inner heart.

He was a little drunk and nearly tipped the table.

Imagine a group of prehistoric hunters armed with stone-tipped spears.

The film has even been tipped as a potential Oscar-winner.

Lifting the toilet from the base the workers tipped it into the tub and the penis fell out.

She tipped the tray and all the cups slid on to the floor.

Not long ago, he was tipped to win both Iowa and New Hampshire, where he outspent his rivals by huge multiples.

I got out of the taxi, paid the fare, tipped the driver and dashed inot the station.

There is a charming petal pink, tipped stamens in two colors - red and green.

Above a small thorn-tipped stamens, are so lovely and beautiful.

petals obovate-triangular, ca. 4 cm, base attenuate, claw tipped with long thin hairs, apex emarginate.

Those caseless steel-tipped infantry rounds you so dutifully loaded into your assault rifle this morning are not designed to kill.

leaf blade margin with gland-tipped simple, double, or incised teeth.

Use a sterile cotton-tipped applicator and gently probe under skin edges.

In recent weeks, however, inflation has tipped over 12%, largely driven by surging oil prices.

Who are the economists 35 and under tipped by the cognoscenti for future Nobel prizes?

The upper surface of the bed remains horizontal when the container is tipped .