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"tottering" Definitions
  1. walking unsteadily or shakily.
  2. lacking security or stability; threatening to collapse; precarious: a tottering empire.
"tottering" Synonyms
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The is currently tottering near record lows against the dollar.
The fund industry is tottering on that barrier right now.
They find themselves, freezing and unsteady, tottering on a bunny hill.
"I'm fine, fine," she said, tottering away without a glance back.
Marni is tottering out on new legs for the first time.
It has stabilized a tottering regime, but victory is not at hand.
Pre-owned T-shirts sit in tall, tottering stacks in the bedroom.
"Iran's aggression is growing, but its empire is tottering," Mr. Netanyahu said.
The woman tottering in that video is much less electable than before.
In the 22s, Muslim immigrants from the tottering Ottoman Empire began to arrive.
In the 1880s, Muslim immigrants from the tottering Ottoman Empire began to arrive.
Instead, I end up tottering home and crashing into my bed at 11.
It's the only thing that would have saved the fleet of tottering old wrecks.
Bopping on his toes, James turned and looked toward Amundson, who was tottering away.
Even Sears, a once mighty department store chain founded in 1886, is now tottering.
The big picture: Tottering from crisis to crisis has taken a heavy toll on Maduro.
The men's rouge is a garish blotch, and their tottering wigs sprout like private shrubberies.
Obviously, serious problems remain, with unrelenting homelessness and tottering mass transit high on the list.
Many mainstream political parties are in voters' bad books and the international political system is tottering.
" An unsettling scene should be "like a Weeble that doesn't fall down, that just keeps tottering.
It was a marvelous section, awash in smart, lively colleagues and enticing, tottering stacks of books.
Subsequent descriptions of England as a "tottering state" and "reeling world" have never sounded more apt.
Had the old lady lost her marbles with grief, tottering around this shrine with her virtual pets?
We are all — the gays, the lesbians, the transgender community — still stalking, tottering and sashaying along it.
That first night, I slept on the floor on a futon next to a tottering kerosene heater.
Few people now recall how the nation was tottering on the very brink between economic recession and depression.
IN 2008, as banks cracked on both sides of the Atlantic, Britain's government prepared to shore up tottering lenders.
What was not so obvious was that the real intention was to rescue a tottering federal government debt system.
And when it comes to the next Supreme Court nomination, Republicans are tottering in hopes of not falling off.
It turned out to be an evening of tottering around eating fashionable nibbles, while holding forth on serious subjects.
As the stink around Mr Ghosn's case worsens, Renault and Nissan, which together employ over 300,000 people, are tottering.
Worse, in a broad financial crisis with many megabanks tottering, the government's response needs to be coordinated and coherent.
We were tottering on the verge of finally sorting out Britain's injunction problem once and for all—and then, bang.
Steadying a tottering financial system is never a graceful exercise, as American and European authorities discovered after the financial crisis.
When confronted with this season's tottering tower of new travel literature, I found it easy to sympathize with poor Pascal.
President Nicolás Maduro is at the mercy of the markets that, every day, nudge his tottering regime nearer the abyss.
Creditors are asking the government to allow the auction of delinquent debtors' properties to prop up the country's tottering banks.
On the other hand, some relationships may end, but only if it is unhealthy and tottering on the edge anyway.
The failure of these tottering plans — or of just one, the Teamsters' Central States Pension Fund — would bankrupt the PBGC.
To save his tottering organization, IOC boss Thomas Bach should really consider serious reform instead of paying it mere lip service.
The change of tempo and of tone as you jump from "Good Time" to Bertrand Bonello's "Nocturama" will leave you tottering.
So, when the crisis struck and many sources of short-term bank funding dried up, the European banks were left tottering.
In the towering, tottering mess that sits beside my bed, I have the makings of a pretty good small-town library.
Mornings on the X-trainer for geezers at the gym; also last thing at night, multiple items (see tottering nightstand above).
The fragile, elderly ladies in blue Mao suits, tottering on the misshapen balls of bound feet, must have disappeared long ago.
Instead, China, like Russia sees a tottering, erratic U.S. led by a capricious and unsteady president and consumed by domestic gridlock.
This article will look at two main examples: an unambiguously failed state, South Sudan, and a state tottering on the brink, Afghanistan.
Despite double-digit inflation and a tottering currency (see article), he is likely to win re-election (though his party may struggle).
Polls suggest that the housing crisis, together with a tottering health service, will be at the heart of the next election campaign.
Military support from Russia and Iran, longtime Assad allies, has helped his tottering regime maintain control over large swaths of the country.
The extraordinary lives of the Soongs were made possible by a confluence of globalization, modernization and Western penetration of an ancient, tottering empire.
"She makes this hardy troglodyte a tottering, staggering force of nature, determined to owe nothing to anybody," Tim Robey wrote in The Telegraph.
Down on the floor we received hordes of patrons who came tottering through the rotunda, flicking sentence fragments at us from yards away.
The WTO, perhaps Mr Trump's next target, is already tottering; it might not survive an escalation between the world's two largest trading partners.
The site launched on Tuesday evening, and — despite tottering under an early surge of traffic — it all seems to be running smoothly today.
From someone's eyes or tottering movement, Ms. Goodson could tell if a patient was intoxicated — and having people lie to her was disheartening.
A crenelated wall of books encircles my bed, its tottering towers looming ever taller, always on the verge of collapsing onto oblivious sleepers.
Elderly, and fatally trusting, she is shown tottering around with her pink wig on backward, slugging gin and falling drunkenly into a toilet.
But a heavy rain fell during the night, and the tottering pile of rubble had to be shored up with hundreds of wooden beams.
After The Incident In November, why not aim a satire magazine at the hog men tottering around 1600 Pennsylvania like sadistic Rodney Dangerfield stereotypes?
A weaker economy puts greater pressure on Italy's tottering banks, shares in which plunged in the days after the British referendum (see chart 2).
The orchestra captures the sounds of crackling thunder and roiling waves; chorus members erupt with cries of fear as they see the ship tottering.
The Maduro regime is already tottering, struggling to meet its financial obligations, feed its people and pay its oil workers, soldiers and police officers.
And so, ironically, a man who began as a builder now presides over a house that is divided, tottering and at risk of collapse.
Meanwhile at home, the detailed presidential spending plan was being unveiled, like the magic show at a mismanaged gambling house tottering toward bankruptcy court.
Estonia's government was tottering over whether to pull out of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, to give it its full name.
The state is tottering, the president is illegitimate, ethnic militias are proliferating and one of the world's richest supplies of minerals is available to loot.
Demolishing the tottering house on the 300-square-metre plot would be expensive—and pointless, since she cannot dispose of the land at any price.
The "Whale Burger" was of Melvillian proportions, topped with melted Gruyère, applewood smoked bacon and even a fried egg, all tottering on an English muffin.
But with thousands of companies tottering on the brink of bankruptcy in the 1990s, the government embarked on reforms in order to reduce their burden.
An agriculture museum in a tottering old castle in the park's center will get a face-lift, as will several other buildings around the park.
More recently, Russia has poured money into the tottering government and helped it create a cryptocurrency as it picks up oil fields on the cheap.
The authorities want everyone out of the area because they are worried about its safety; The Museum project would require stabilizing dozens of tottering ruins.
Like the Little Tramp, who often ended his films by tottering down the road, he'd mentally twirl a cane and wobble lakeward into the sunset.
His current lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has enjoyed a late-in-life return to political life as a tottering — and sometimes wildly off-message — legal guru.
But with hospitals in Baghdad overrun with wartime casualties, doctors had no time for a tottering little boy who could barely make out cartoons on television.
After all, we've been tottering around for well over 20 years, using our legs to get from point A to point B countless times per day.
The chaos of power, the fragility of empires, the tottering precariousness of globalisation—devour or be devoured—these were the themes he returned to again and again.
The Senate bill, like the House measure, would provide billions of dollars to states to help stabilize insurance markets, which Republicans say are tottering in many states.
Coming up the walk was the tall girl, tottering on a pair of platform heels, and she had the dog with her, this time on a leash.
That's why trying to choose a ripe watermelon out of the tottering pile at the market can feel like such a crapshoot—but it doesn't have to be.
She's invited along her best friend, who recently survived an accident: It's Copper, her sweet and fluffy "dog child," tottering around with one leg in a bejeweled cast!
And as the revelations mounted, one on top of another like a tottering tower, Israelis expressed increasing doubt about Mr. Netanyahu's ability to maintain his grip on power.
In some instances, neighbors form a close bond with the business, while others might have a harder time making peace with teeter-tottering in the backyard next door.
Located on the Cité-du-Havre peninsula, it comprises 354 identical concrete forms that appear to be stacked precariously atop one another, like a child's tottering Lego experiment.
For a small band of hedge funds that slapped down prescient bets against the tottering US housing market, the financial crisis was the biggest money-spinner in generations.
Kumamon was depicted leading the rescue efforts, his head bandaged, lifting stones to rebuild the tumbled walls of Kumamoto Castle, propping up tottering foundations, enfolding children in his arms.
Through a talent born of yearning he had transformed himself into Ziggy Stardust: extravagant, flawed and sexually polymorphous, tottering on platform shoes and hiding behind a mask of paint.
In the theater, 700 people's worlds collide each night, but this evening we were all tottering on one of the great tectonic shifts as our whole world was realigned.
Louisa in Louboutins, wearing a dust mask, her heels and trademark red soles teeter-tottering around in the Dumpster as she flicked over broken-backed volumes with a litter-picker.
In September 2014, 43 students went missing in the southwestern town of Iguala, echoing state corruption, tottering civil liberties and the similar tragic incidents that plague Mexico's past and present.
Then, George W. Bush's administration was tottering after it turned out that the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina was being led by an Arabian-horse enthusiast appointed by Mr Bush.
Watching William's Wish Wellingtons, eating marmite on toast, and tottering around the world in a cloud of blissful ignorance, pestering your mum for crisps at all hours of the day, probably.
On a gray Sunday afternoon in Manhattan, I trail behind a gaggle of women tottering along the rain-slicked pavement in chunky heels toward a sign that reads THIS WAY ROSÉ.
The European Union is tottering: if France were to elect the nationalist Marine Le Pen as president next year and then follow Britain out of the door, the EU could collapse.
Yet the dizzy spell Hillary Clinton suffered on September 11th, which caused her to retreat, tottering, from a memorial service in New York, looks like a giant gift to Donald Trump.
The policy platform of Hillary Clinton, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, is built on a tottering stack of federal regulations, tax credits and paper-spewing schemes to make a Brandeis weep.
But 40 percent of Egypt's 98 million people live in neighborhoods more like the one they were sitting in, dust-blown locales with broken roads and tottering, often illegally constructed, buildings.
A lawyer and league official before he was named commissioner in 1984, he stabilized a league that was tottering with its fan base shrinking and many of its teams losing money.
Scarcely had he offered this brief reply when I saw Experience approaching, and the columns of the portico of hypotheses began tottering, its vaults sagging and its floor opening under our feet.
The initial return to Berk, now a tottering metropolis of brightly colored buildings absolutely crammed with equally brightly colored dragons, is an impressive showcase for how ambitious and wild CG animation has become.
" He continues, "And as I came out, I woke up with this really strong set of images of girls in tottering heels, but they're actually rats and the human beings are in the drains.
Justice Samuel Alito said a ruling favoring South Dakota could embolden states "tottering on the edge of insolvency" to seek to collect as much sales tax as possible by targeting out-of-state businesses.
The goal has been to help the Syrian government, which was until recently tottering, seize more territory in advance of the planned ceasefire (though it's far from clear that this ceasefire will actually materialize).
LONDON — Britain's tottering efforts to leave the European Union remained at an impasse on Thursday as allies of Prime Minister Theresa May tried to keep her deal alive in the face of unbending opposition.
Off she went to the Conservatoire, then to the Comédie Française, then to the Théâtre National Populaire, where her tottering, gauzy Maggie in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" was soon the toast of Paris.
Each day at home I worked with straps, bands, assorted balls and a low tottering platform on which I learned to keep my balance while standing on my right foot — something I'd always considered impossible.
The world tech elites seek doesn't adapt to the rank-and-file; the rank-and-file adapts to it, navigating the tottering jobs and cramped quarters that ever-wealthier plutocrats insist are hallmarks of innovation.
As is usual for this time of day, office workers congregate around street food stalls, hunched over heaving falafel flatbread wraps, tottering past William Blake's grave with chili sauce dripping down their freshly pressed shirts.
That means the same basic formula of decisively winning the white and male vote that delivered the Electoral College to Trump in 2016 could still apply no matter how much his administration is perceived as tottering.
A modest rise in U.S. Treasury yields on Monday did little to help a tottering greenback, which has taken the brunt of selling in the wake of the Trump administration's trade protectionism and tough immigration policy.
Its members include Andrew Durand as an awkward young photographer, David Wilson Barnes as Lamb's lieutenant and a first-rate Michael Siberry as the gentlemanly rival editor Hugh Cudlipp, the personification of the tottering old regime.
What conservatism seeks to accomplish through that reconfiguration of the old and absorption of the new is to make privilege popular, to transform a tottering old regime into a dynamic, ideologically coherent movement of the masses.
The Cubs were held scoreless in the ninth, and when the tottering Mr Chapman trotted to the mound for a second inning of work, the Indians needed to score only a single run to claim the championship.
Lowe, 87, wishes he could do more himself, but age and bad knees have hampered his efforts, the widower and father of 11 said, tottering from his home to the church with the help of a cane.
Past crises suggest that the trauma of this moment will be with us for years, the ways we cope with it potentially serving as another source of grief — and another stressor on a tottering health care system.
Or a pair of young males, excitedly tottering after an undecided female, would pause to see which of them was the more impressive craner of its neck, or to whap at each other ineffectually with their flippers.
The problem is that aid flows are not keeping up with the scale of the exodus from South Sudan - at least 230,230 have arrived in Uganda since fighting erupted in July last year - and the system is tottering.
She was already tottering because her old friend Damian Green, the deputy prime minister, is under investigation by the Cabinet Office over claims of sexual harassment (and possession of porn on an office computer), which he strenuously denies.
One of the biggest players in pushing back against the tide or Arab populist revolt was the Saudi regime itself, which sent tanks into Bahrain, embraced tottering dictators, and stamped down on any signs of dissent at home.
An increase in the tax, while crucial for paring Japan's bulging debt pile, risks imperiling a recovery that already appears to be stuttering amid tottering exports and the steepest decline in industrial output in half a decade, observers say.
U.S, citizens must rely on Russian oligarchs — not their elected representatives or the Justice Department and FBI — to learn the truth of the Trump dossier, which continues to serve as the tottering foundation of the Trump-Russia collusion story.
Someone posts a video of their infant tottering around to music from a favorite toy; someone else replies with a seven-second loop of Theresa May, the former British prime minster, dancing jerkily during a state visit to Nairobi.
She had recently had her first child but seemed remarkably slender, and wore a pink baby-doll dress so elaborately feathered that, in combination with her towering Gucci heels, it gave her the appearance of a tottering baby ostrich.
In The Magnificent Cuckold, the dynamic geometric forms that she had practiced in her paintings morphed into movable wooden platforms, stairs, rigging, slides, scaffolds, ladders, gears, blades and bridges for gesticulating, tottering, charging men and women in loose-fitting, everyday clothes.
But the rhythmic energy of the curves — sweeping broadly above one figure, coiling beneath and unloosing the lifted arms of the second, and then barely containing the third — exceeds mere concept; the towering and tottering figures palpably tower and totter.
" Whatever the result of the referendum — and Brennan, at least, is hopeful — the last 35 years for women in Ireland have born some resemblance to Firestone's vision of "[the] first women … fleeing the massacre, and, shaking and tottering, … beginning to find each other.
When Rockey—known simply as Jonathan R on the track—and I sit down to chat about the Shock Exchange, he shows me a photo of his three-year-old daughter in pink roller skates and helmet, tottering and smiling at the camera.
Not only did Prince George rock up to school without a care in the world, but he also took part in a photoshoot AND started a new fashion trend (imagine how many British toddlers are now tottering around with tiny blue rucksacks).
In the 1990s, with his Atlantic City casinos and other businesses tottering on the verge of collapse, Mr. Trump negotiated a deal under which his creditors — investors and banks — would forgive part of the debt in exchange for equity in partnerships he controlled.
Wright shored up his at-times tottering architectural practice by using his Taliesin Fellowship, the "school" he ran as a vehicle to get young, star-struck students to pay him an exorbitant tuition to do the work ordinarily performed by paid employees.
LJUBLJANA, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The Bank of Slovenia said on Wednesday it would mount a legal challenge if parliament passed a law requiring it to cover all possible repayments to those who lost their investments when the government propped up tottering banks in 2013.
Rather than work to bring down the brutal Assad regime and support Syrians who reject his totalitarian rule and the proposed Sharia law of the Muslim extremists, Power stood by while Iran and its Hezbollah terrorist puppets rushed into bolster the tottering Assad regime.
Seeing Mario, his blood spattered on the steps from his constant injections, tottering off to get more drugs, it was clear that the Portuguese model isn't as effective as we might hope — but it occurred to me that in America, Mario might well be dead.
Sometimes I'd pick up a stick and take a whack at one, and it would fly away into a tree, where it would screech at me, tottering on a branch, its head held high, no longer a bird but a kind of fluffy serpent.
The president had alarmed them in Egypt, when he did not support the tottering regime of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, and infuriated them in Syria, when he did not follow through on his threat to bomb Bashar al-Assad over his use of chemical weapons in 2013.
So now I'm just, you can put that to your side or in front, it can be whatever you want, and if you're an awkward heel person, always hold something, because then you're almost not, like, teeter-tottering, or you actually have something to hold your balance.
Drivers pay roughly the equivalent of 40 cents a gallon for regular gasoline, and that is after the government raised prices slightly in a minor adjustment in a vast, popular subsidy, which is helping to prop up the tottering government politically, while helping to bankrupt it economically.
Consider the armies of young women tottering around the nightclub district of any American city in camisoles and stilettos every weekend night of the year even in the dead of winter (aren't they freezing?) because that's what sexiness looks like onscreen, and maybe some form of reward will follow.
Living hand to mouth in squalor despite both husband Osamu (Lily Franky) and wife Nobuyo (Sakura Ando) working full time, they, along with elderly grandma (the late Kirin Kiki), older daughter Aki (Mayu Matsuoka) and younger son Shota (Jyo Kairi) live together under one tottering roof and gently annoy each other.
The league's tottering goliaths didn't simply drop points into a black hole, they dropped points to other, smaller clubs – clubs who had spent the close-season replacing Jordan Mutch, Stuart Downing and Steve Sidwell with Yohan Cabaye, Dimitri Payet and Xherdan Shaqiri, and whose ability to land punches on the jaws of the heavyweights was increased tenfold in the space of one summer.
SS: Your business seems to be, and I'll be honest with you, I was a former floor man myself, not from Lloyds I was on the LIFFE floor, and you guys still with your slipcases and what have you, having you tottering off down to the Leadenhall, I beg your pardon, the place next to Leadanhall and, it's the Lamb isn't it – and basically it just seems anachronistic.
In spite of the fact that he was now tottering at the edge of unconsciousness my grandfather briefly outlined six improvements that he would make to the design of the stall man's barbecue fork, including attaching the fork to the aerial with a metal collar and a rivet and adding a simple grip at the other end, using the handle from an old trowel or a piece cut from a broomstick.
Old scrap-iron foxgloves rusty rods of the broken woods what a faded knocked-out stiffness as if you'd sprung from the horsehair of a whole Victorian sofa buried in the mud down there or at any rate something dropped from a great height straight through flesh and out the other side has left your casing pale and loose and finally just a heap of shoes they say the gods being so uplifted can't really walk on feet but take tottering steps and lean like this closer and closer to the ground                which gods?
Too many books for the nightstand, I'm afraid — more like two (sometimes three) tottering piles on the floor, including these: "Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics," by Stephen Greenblatt; "Small Country," by Gaël Faye; "Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous," by Christopher Bonanos; "There There," by Tommy Orange; "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now," by Jaron Lanier; "Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York," by Roz Chast; "OK, Mr. Field," by Katharine Kilalea; "The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels," by Jon Meacham; "Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill," by Candice Millard; "Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo," by Zora Neale Hurston; and "Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets," by Svetlana Alexievich.

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