| Like a practiced ballet, Octavia and Derek performed simultaneous moves which threw her off balance. |
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| If the jib is up and overtrimmed, it can easily backwind the main and throw the boat off balance. |
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| Too much criticism can throw them off balance and make them inhibited or self-conscious. |
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| He immediately dematerializes, causing her punch to miss, and pulling her off balance. |
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| It is not just rumours and a palpable sense of impending danger that throw people off balance. |
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| The Army had managed to moderate the flow of supplies into South Vietnam and keep the enemy off balance. |
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| We'd clasped hands and spun around, but I'd fallen off balance and crashed into the table. |
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| Used to traitors bargaining information for food or freedom, they were caught off balance. |
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| He pushed them both into the fountain while they were still teetering off balance. |
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| Was Hannity trying to ruffle Jensen's feathers, knock him off balance in order to get him to react in anger? |
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| The two or seconde parry is powerful and can knock a fencer attacking in the low line off balance if you take enough blade. |
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| They were thrown off balance as they hit the floor with a loud resounding thud. |
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| Thrown off balance, the boy fell with a splash, just as the bullet whizzed past his head. |
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| The show manages to keep the viewer a little off balance with an edgy storyline that can at times be offset by some offbeat humor. |
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| Dangerously overladen, completely off balance, the bus lurches across the bridge. |
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| The sudden weight change threw her off balance and her head pitched forward, smacking into the metal. |
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| National pride can be a repellent trait in musicians, but Davies throws you off balance here. |
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| The Lewis Revolving Rifle puts the game way off balance giving you six quick-fire shots before having to reload. |
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| Spot and forward foreign transactions, as well as deposits and loans, are recorded as off balance sheet commitments until their value date. |
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| Even the sisters in the Hippo nunnery were warned that a woman can unconsciously and unintentionally throw a man off balance merely by a flashing eye. |
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| Romney seemed off balance at times as he tried to regroup and regain the initiative. |
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| In certain reserves, the ratio of one male is to five females is thrown off balance and encourages a low total in reproduction. |
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| I recall considering grabbing the gutter on the roof edge as it rose past me, but doubted it would do much but slow me for an instant and pull me off balance. |
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| In a market thrown off balance by surpluses, any country that increases its production harms all the others. |
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| Several rows of containers broke loose and fell overboard while others, thrown off balance, collapsed on deck. |
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| In this way, local food production is often thrown off balance and deeply discouraged. |
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| His character showed a certain straightforwardness and he was not easily thrown off balance. |
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| Today, the majority of the French and Dutch citizens voted against the constitution, and today we must not let ourselves be thrown off balance. |
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| Spanish NGOs and advocates of increased spending on development aid too were thrown off balance by the remark. |
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| Their instinct is thrown off balance, and they are no longer scared by humans and their noisy boats. |
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| The security forces, which had been thrown off balance at the start, quickly threw themselves into the hunt for cameramen. |
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| You're always off balance with it, sometimes as if you were being subjected at once to a high-church orison and a dirty joke. |
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| Like last year's championship game with Ontario, the Quebec region kept their opponents off balance by keeping up the pressure. |
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| In the severe Menuetto one is kept off balance by the three-bar phrases and tense, driving syncopation. |
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| No liability has been recognized in the financial statements, and this put option represents an off balance sheet commitment. |
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| An example of the calculation, assuming no other off balance sheet exposures, is provided in the chart below. |
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| The first one is what types of securitization will remain off balance sheet? |
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| The non-written off balance will be repaid on completion of these five years. |
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| A large number of fishermen may leave the profession, which would knock that entire economic sector off balance. |
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| Thrust off balance, Ikeda reeled backwards, shocked and aghast. |
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| Above and below, divisions blur and the long-established equilibrium is knocked off balance amid revelations of illicit sexual liaisons and dubious business dealings. |
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| Fighting from the left-handed southpaw stance, Magee's slashing left hands and jabs kept Hatton off balance for the majority of the opening stages. |
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| A searing cold gale caused Raven to stumble hard, off balance. |
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| Both men were blowing hard towards the end of the round when a left hook from Hatton knocked Phillips off balance and he then stumbled to the floor. |
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| Lewis fought a tactical fight, keeping Holyfield off balance with a long jab and peppering him with combinations almost at will. |
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| Just as it was the case this summer with the Russian and Ukrainian wheat, agricultural markets are thrown off balance by supply shrinkages caused by climate hazards. |
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| But Mr. Liu's political ambitions and his campaign were thrown off balance after an article in The New York Times in October that raised questions about the source and legitimacy of Mr. Liu's campaign donations. |
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| In the 1st round, Hatton caught Mayweather with a left jab which knocked Mayweather off balance. |
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| Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield kept the Blue Jays batters off balance as Boston scored a 6-4 win over Toronto at Fenway Park on Wednesday. |
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| In Newington, however, officials said that despite all the planning before the store opened they were still thrown off balance by the hordes of patrons. |
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| He jerked me off balance and the hand with the brass knucks came around in a looping bolo punch. |
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| But if the island, with about 70 plant and animal species unique to it, has had its ecology thrown off balance, it is largely unscathed by development. |
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| I have no idea of Horwill's record but his excuse of being knocked off balance holds as much water as a chickenwire bucket. |
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| In a microbiome that is off balance, the microvilli and the tight junctions found in the small intestine are not functioning properly. |
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| It was off balance sheet financing, if the member knows what that is. |
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| Ferrone was not thrown entirely off balance. |
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| Foer is, I would say, a naturally noisy writer — a natural parodist, a jokester, full of ideas and special effects, keen to keep us off balance and entertained. |
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| When I was driving, I was knocked off balance duringmy backswing. |
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| With Tiny, it is good as a surprise strat. If another team doesn't realize where he fits into the whole lineup, then you can really throw the opposition off balance. |
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| Clinging on to said defender, viduka, slightly off balance, only manages to tickle the ball with his toecaps, merely toepoking it to the opposition. |
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| Their fights are visually dramatic, with spitting, ramming each other with their chests, neck wrestling and kicking, mainly to knock the other off balance. |
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