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The Bay of Pigs, the Brighton bomb and Greenham Common have all been portrayed in recent works constructed like out-of-kilter collages full of abrupt stylistic disjunctures.
Turner prize 2010 – review Laura Cumming 2010
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Last week's job losses at Lloyds Banking Group, taking the total since the HBOS takeover to 45,000, were arguably another symptom of the same "rebalancing": the financial services sector needs to contract, to bring the out-of-kilter economy back into balance.
Without a return to growth, the western economies could end up as 'Japan lite' 2011
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Last week's job losses at Lloyds Banking Group, taking the total since the HBOS takeover to 45,000, were arguably another symptom of the same "rebalancing": the financial services sector needs to contract, to bring the out-of-kilter economy back into balance.
Without a return to growth, the western economies could end up as 'Japan lite' 2011
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But others argue that the Tories' deregulatory spree in the 80s could have done as much to bring about that out-of-kilter economic model as the forces of globalisation, which helped to undermine manufacturing.
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Of course, Obama is dealing with a very out-of-kilter political situation.
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Of course, Obama is dealing with a very out-of-kilter political situation.
William Bradley: Is Obama's AfPak Strategy Actually Working? 2010
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Deena: Fear, strangeness, a way of looking at the world a little out-of-kilter.
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Are there some non-financial structures that are less predatory and unstable than this radically out-of-kilter invisible hand?
Eyebeam reBlog 2009
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Under a doctor's supervision, he'd fasted in order to reduce his considerable weight and balance the out-of-kilter composition of his blood, with its elevated fats and sugars and pressures.
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The text makes the art look even more out-of-kilter and ominous!
A Day In The Life... Zillabob 2009
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