How To Use Top-heavy In A Sentence
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The country in Yuba, Wisconsin is extremely hilly (it's close to the Mississippi side), and the tobacco tractor had a very high wheel base, making it too top-heavy to use on inclines.
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Stake and support dahlias, gladioli, chrysanthemums and other top-heavy border plants.
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His wizened features were very even and his grey hair so abundantly thick and wavy as to make him look almost top-heavy.
THE MARSHAL AND THE MURDERER
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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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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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She's a top-heavy temptress whose well-enhanced front end gets the lion's share of the amorous attention.
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Stake and support dahlias, gladioli, chrysanthemums and other top-heavy border plants.
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Don't let toddlers lean into the basket from the seat - they're top-heavy and could topple.
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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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The initiative for the meeting is believed to have been Dr Hope's, the second most senior figure in the Church of England, who is widely known to have long been concerned about what he sees as the top-heavy structure of the church.
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The store I worked in was soon top-heavy with managers, with three floor managers and a general manager augmented by several others in training and a co-GM.
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I have referred to a top-heavy alignment and co-ordination of national economies as a misorientation, and because I have no sympathy for a European inbreeding, I can only hope that the present rather one-sided pattern in economic and financial relations will in future leave more room for German-Canadian co-operation.
The Future of European Integration and German-Canadian Relations
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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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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 Web may have opened up and democratized the once top-heavy world of publishing, but the next frontier in digital publications is still young.
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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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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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She smoked her cigarette and said, "Your legs are good, but you're kinda short-waisted, a bit top-heavy.
WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE
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His wizened features were very even and his grey hair so abundantly thick and wavy as to make him look almost top-heavy.
THE MARSHAL AND THE MURDERER
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In fact, she generally looks pretty graceless whenever she moves - a bit like a top-heavy giraffe.
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Analytical cells do not need top-heavy bureaucracies; instead, they should remain lean and flexible so information can flow efficiently between analysts and decision makers.
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Corruption and top-heavy bureaucracy have deterred many foreign investors, and there is scant prospect of a clean-out while the government remains seemingly opposed to reform of the legal system.
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The becalmed and top-heavy boat started to roll heavily.
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The Soviet Army is top-heavy with officers, too, of all ranks.
KARA KUSH
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A good shake of the bamboo put it to rights but the latter plant has to be treated with more care because the stems can break and they are top-heavy with clusters of fluffy yellow flowers.
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In a squall she heeled over; water rushed in through the gunports of the top-heavy hull and, in a carbon copy of the Mary Rose disaster a century earlier in the Channel, the pride and joy of the royal fleet went down like a stone.
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The Web may have opened up and democratized the once top-heavy world of publishing, but the next frontier in digital publications is still young.
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The main reason the ship capsized was that it was top-heavy.
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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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Ultimately, he is a man who at times shows off, but generally camouflages an amazing -- if top-heavy -- physique.
Zandile Blay: Bishop Eddie Long: A Wolf in Chic Clothing?
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The assembly has funded political parties, paid for 10 ministries (when there is no logical case for more than six), and sustained a top-heavy civil service who spend their salaries in the local shops.
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Stake and support dahlias, gladioli, chrysanthemums and other top-heavy border plants.
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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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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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I'm at that stage where my body feels unnaturally lop-sided and top-heavy.
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In fact, she generally looks pretty graceless whenever she moves - a bit like a top-heavy giraffe.
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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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A helpful outcome of a globalising economy is that it reduces some of the top-heavy powers and oppressive influence of many national governments, making the world relatively more democratic.
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Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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USAR CA units are very top-heavy with officers and senior NCOs and there are two reasons for this.
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Many disappeared in the South China Sea - their overcrowded, top-heavy fishing boats swamped by the sea, or sunk by pirates who attacked at night.
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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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This has grown into tall stemmy shrubs, but not yet into mature top-heavy trees.
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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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They became top-heavy and turned over in the water, unable to right themselves.
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On the way back from the awards banquet, the man from the Optimists Club drove too fast-just like her husband-and Ruth, who was tall and sat forward in the seat, swayed as though she were top-heavy.
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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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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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Don't let toddlers lean into the basket from the seat - they're top-heavy and could topple.
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They say that Carroll sees the firm as top-heavy with lawyers and accountants.
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Clambering aboard, top-heavy with a pack full of gear for all weathers, the pre-requisite for any decent holiday in Scotland, I am genuinely surprised at how comfortable and spacious the accommodation is.
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Your display will be top-heavy if the flowers you choose are too large for the container.
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The becalmed and top-heavy boat started to roll heavily.
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Hull Council is ‘top-heavy’ with bureaucracy and needs to be radically slimmed down, new council leader Ken Branson said yesterday.
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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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It handles brilliantly thanks to the high, wide handlebars, though it is top-heavy at lower speed.
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The Producer was already in New York, raising yet another million dollars to add to a top-heavy budget.
LAST SHOT
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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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Clouds were building up to block its route, great towers of cumulus, top-heavy with rain.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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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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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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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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In 1964 a revolt in Hama almost toppled the then current Ba'athist regime, top-heavy with Alawites.
Syria: Identity Crisis
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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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I still think that District 150 administration is top-heavy (and heavy on consultants, aka rehired retirees) and that cuts should start there.
The Peoria Chronicle
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Perhaps the plant is unmanageably top-heavy and blows over unless you tie it to a wall.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Early retirement as a trend hit Ireland during the 1990s when it became popular with employers seeking to restructure top-heavy organisations and draft in younger employees at a lower cost and on a less committed contractual basis.
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EDE was in charge of the Shaw Conference Centre during their protracted strike and has also come under considerable fire for poor financial management and a top-heavy governance model.
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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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The bill repeals restrictions on ‘top-heavy’ pension plans set up as tax dodges by employers.