Unbalanced \Un*bal"anced\, a. [In senses 1 and 2, pref. un- not + balanced; in sense 3, 1st pref. un- + balance.] 1. Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise.
Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly. --Pope.
2. (Com.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books.
3. Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind. --Pope.
In doing so, we not only risk creating unbalanced individuals, but we may also be stifling the creativity which can flourish when children are allowed to follow their desires through the free play of the imagination.
The reformers' chances for success are up against a long history of broken promises from legislators who benefit from the existing, unbalanced system.
An AK-47 was used by a mentally unbalanced drifter to kill five children in a Stockton, Calif., schoolyard.
The upshot is that while the province is not exactly rich in 'heritage and interpretive' centres, provision is unbalanced and some long-standing Ulster assets are ignored.
"Kids here can grow up with an unbalanced view of what the world is like," says Stephen Brecher, partner in the accounting firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. in New York.
A law that fails to keep someone as unbalanced as Wesbecker from acquiring a high-powered arsenal is a fatally ineffective law.
There would only be provided a distorted and unbalanced view of our country's history."
Arafat rejected Israeli claims that the lone Israeli gunman who shot and killed seven Palestinian workers near Tel Aviv on Sunday was mentally unbalanced.
The once-efficient economy is plagued by low productivity, a poor industrial structure, unbalanced supply and demand, and growth of unsold inventory.
The woman in "Corrupt Legislation" shows sinful decolletage in her toga and her scales are unbalanced by gold on one.
Martin responded that he had no way of knowing when he submitted his budget that changes in tax collections would make it unbalanced.
"Does not try to hide his thinning hair by an unbalanced cut."
Number 10, however, is very much unbalanced, and on Monday the Massachussets Legislature came back into session to wrestle with the budget's soaring deficit.
The Bush and Reagan administrations have shown no interest in Gorbachev's appeal for a ban on all military aid to Central America, calling it unbalanced.
The heavy hand of the law, unbalanced and unjust, has done the rest.
But McMillen stressed that problems at high schools reflect unbalanced college priorities, especially in money-making sports such as football and basketball.
"The economy looks increasingly unbalanced," Donald Straszheim, chief economist at Merrill Lynch & Co., said. "Trade's the only thing holding it up."
"What we and every other debtor have discovered is that economies unbalanced by debt are a nightmare to repair," says Andres Dauhajre, a Dominican economist.
"UNO has told us they anticipated an unbalanced campaign, and they have entered the race with this knowledge," so the alleged unfairness cannot be used now to invalidate the elections, Riza said.
"It is an unbalanced document, condemning one of the parties for its actions without taking into account acts of violence by the other side.