tilt the balance/scales

Examples of tilting

tilting

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In this case, the density field promotes global tilting, whereas the viscosity field favours a straight vertical interface.
In the remaining 12 subjects, vasopressin elevated to an appropriate level for the corresponding hypotension that tilting induced.
As the stretched tube moves downstream, the tilting becomes more pronounced with increasing time.
Computer-controlled motors help in individually moving the cameras, changing the focus, zoom, aperture, or tilting the stereo pair.
Head movements resulted in the automatic repositioning of the tilting pan, and the camera followed the eye within this range.
They identify critical tilting directions and develop a complete algorithm to find tilt sequences by searching the finite tree of all sequences.
No significant difference between the gantry tilting and half beam block techniques was demonstrated.
In rapid distortion by shear, the turbulence is non-stationary, and dominated by vorticity tilting and stretching.
The expansion indicates the outward diffusion of the amplified vorticity concentrated within a tilting cross-vortex tube.
However, tilting and yawing of the platform is always combined with a translational movements in x- and y-directions.
Militarisation altered class power relations, tilting the scales in favour of the landed elites.
This test was given the day immediately following surgery and before each spatial frequency testing period until tilting was no longer present.
It states that the gravitational vorticity component, which drives the tilting of the front, is inversely proportional to the local viscosity value.
Because no explicit macroscopic tilting of the sample holder is required, zero-tilt single-particle approaches can intrinsically reach very high resolution levels.
One direction is back and forth tilting, and the other is right and left.
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