skyscraper

skyscraper


    Choose language
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "overbalance" in a sentence

    overbalance example sentences

    overbalance


    overbalanced


    overbalances


    overbalancing


    1. But when one of them imports from the other to a greater value than it exports to that other, the former necessarily becomes indebted to the latter in a greater sum than the latter becomes indebted to it: the debts and credits of each do not compensate one another, and money must be sent out from that place of which the debts overbalance the credits


    2. Then again, he could end up literally losing his face, if he should overbalance and smash his teeth in on the curb


    3. Our exports, in consequence of these different frauds, appear upon the custom-house books greatly to overbalance our imports, to the unspeakable comfort of those politicians, who measure the national prosperity by what they call the balance of trade


    4. them any higher would overbalance her


    5. The line of a profile is often one of great beauty, only here the variety is apt to overbalance the unity or run of the line


    6. Of course, Suellen would be certain to tell tales engagement to Ashley or her elopement would more than overbalance their displeasure


    7. The disadvantages of ignorance, of human greed, of mob psychology, of trading costs, of weighting of the dice by insiders and manipulators,2 will in the aggregate far overbalance the purely theoretical superiority of speculation in that it offers profit possibilities in return for the assumption of risk


    8. Jess went near the end, and only realised when Glain flinched that he’d smeared her with Portero’s sticky blood, and then he was over, tumbling down a hill and up to his feet with the unwieldy weight of the pack on his back to overbalance him yet again when the cobbles of the street below proved slick


    9. Yet, for all his hardy sobriety and fortitude, there were certain qualities in him which at times affected, and in some cases seemed well nigh to overbalance all the rest


    10. Well, naturally, as they'd dug the earth away the stone had nothing to stand upon, it began to overbalance ; and as soon as it began to shake they pushed with their hands upon the stone, shouting hurrah, in true Russian style, and the stone fell with a crash into the hole ! Then they shovelled earth on it, rammed it down with a mallet, paved it over with little stones—the road was smooth, the stone had disappeared ! "

    11. And immediately he became aware that something important was taking place in his soul; that his inner life was on a wavering scale, which could by the slightest effort be made to overbalance to one side or the other


    1. In Spain and Portugal, the bad effects of the monopoly, aggravated by other causes, have, perhaps, nearly overbalanced the natural good effects of the colony trade


    2. “Hit me if you want because I deserve it”, and he threw his arms out wide overbalanced and sat down on his ass on the pavement


    3. “Well I overbalanced and the ladder fell and I was left hanging on the top shelf


    4. If you separate all forms of human cooperative effort into these two broad categories of tool-based and human based cooperation: you find that it is grossly overbalanced in favor of tools


    5. Miss Marchmont's pile overbalanced and fell into Jacob's compartment


    6. Yet she liked her thoughts: a vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with interest


    7. She leant against the panelling, flushed and sweating, and overbalanced and fell onto Jess and Thomas’s laps as the train lurched into motion


    1. education is surely an advantage which greatly overbalances this trifling inconveniency


    1. With a flourish at their audience, Jarek shoved his finger into Melvin’s mouth, nearly overbalancing him


    2. There were at the time as many reasons for the step as against it, and there was no overbalancing consideration to outweigh his invariable rule of abstaining when in doubt


    3. She screamed, and the clerk, overbalancing, fell heavily under the table


    4. The railroads, for example, have financed the bulk of their needs through bond sales, resulting in an overbalancing of funded debt as against stock capital


    5. When you actually increase the target portfolio weighting of an asset when its price declines and it gets cheaper, you are simply rebalancing in a more vigorous form—you are “overbalancing


    6. ” A simpler way of overbalancing is to increase your target allocation ever so slightly—perhaps by 0


    Show more examples

    Synonyms for "overbalance"

    overbalance outbalance outweigh preponderate

    "overbalance" definitions

    weigh more heavily


    cause to be off balance