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Simple sentences
Bob mounted the portrait in a fancy frame, but it was upside down.
Don't hold it upside down.
That evening I left my tip under a coffee cup, which I left upside down on the table.
Take care not to turn the box upside down.
The boy pretended he could read, but he was holding the book upside down.
The picture was hung upside down.
He was surprised to find the great artist's masterpiece hung on the wall upside down.
I didn't know hummingbirds could even fly upside down when frightened.
The ship turned upside down and many passengers were thrown into the sea.
My brother hung the picture upside down.
He turned the bottle upside down and shook it, but still the honey wouldn't come out.
So now he landed back in the same company, but this time not in the office chair, but rather upside down on the concrete staircase.
The picture is hung upside down.
The map on page 11 looks very strange. Turn it upside down. Then it becomes a familiar map to you.
Nobody noticed that the picture was hung upside down.
He turned the table upside down.
He was reading a paper upside down.
Everything is upside down.
Movie subtitles
If I catch you watching some porn, I'm gonna hit you upside your head with a pillowcase full of oranges.
The construction of a new wing along the Orfevres Dock had turned the Halls of Justice upside down - they were overrun by builders.
Mephisto turns the hour glass upside down. and thus reverses the course of time.
If I have to turn the country upside down, I'll see you.
Upside down.
You look at everything upside down.
You've got the map upside down.
You know, portrait of a lamp shade upside-down. to represent a soul in torment.
Turn the dump upside down. I won't squawk if you got a search warrant.
Everything's upside down. I haven't finished unpacking.
It's all upside down!
You got it all upside down and every which way.
It's a great responsibility, and it seems to turn the house upside down.
Why do you let two strangers come into your house and turn the place upside down?
Either this suit is on upside-down or there is no law of gravity.
Yes. But it's upside down.
You try writing your name upside down and backwards without stopping.
It is so. You're reading it upside down.
Susan, I don't know. You look at everything upside down.
We're gonna turn this town upside down.
We're upside down.
Look around. Turn the dump upside down. I won't squawk if you got a search warrant.
Everything's upside down.
My instruments tell me I'm flying upside-down. 5,000 feet below Lake Michigan.
You know, Jason, people who fly upside down get a pretty twisted picture of what's going on all around them.
Maybe if the gentleman would stick his head upside down in a bucket of water.
MISS LIVVY'S VISIT HAS TURNED OUR LIVES UPSIDE-DOWN.
Not this modern stuff, I hope, you know, portrait of a lampshade upside down to represent a soul in torment.
Turn the place upside down.
Turn the dump upside down.
Why do you let two strangers come and turn this place upside down.
Renard will move in and turn this place upside down. so you better start figuring how and where you're gonna move him.
Did you know there was an upside-Down to seeds?
What can I tell you, but you've got everything upside down.
News and current affairs
In the US, such an agency could have weighed in on the costs and benefits of bailout plans, perhaps helping to end congressional paralysis and steeling nerves to give taxpayers more upside risk.
Maintaining an undervalued currency has the upside that it subsidizes the production of such goods; but it also has the downside that it taxes domestic consumption - which is why it generates a trade surplus.
By encouraging industrial production directly, it is possible to have the upside without the downside.
The upside of rebuilding - beyond the urgent restoration of normal life for thousands of people - is only a temporary palliative for an impaired economy.
After all, by capping spreads, the buyback facility would limit the downside risk while providing incentives to hold the bonds and wait for the upside - a good reason, perhaps, to make the facility a temporary offer.
Still, there is an upside here.
With today's global economy in the middle of a sustained and increasingly balanced expansion, has the time come to start considering upside risks?
But they also point to the upside: the oil industry, in its never-ending search for more reserves, need not beg Congress for the right to despoil Alaska.
Thirty-six years ago, Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong turned world politics upside down, as both America and China realized that it was the Soviet Union, and not each other, that posed the greater threat.
If all goes well, these hedge funds - and of course the banks that are already undoubtedly Too Big to Fail (TBTF) - get a great deal of upside.
Shorting a stock is difficult and risky: it is difficult because borrowing stocks is hard to do, and it is risky because shorting has limited upside but infinite downside.
But there are downside and upside risks to this scenario.
But there are also several upside risks.
The existing business model allows them to take the upside when they win, and hand over the downside to taxpayers when they lose.
The executives get the upside when things go well; when the downside risks materialize, they lose nothing (or close to it).
Their executives want to get all the upside while facing none of the true downside.
By issuing preferred shares with warrants (options), one reduces the public's downside risk and ensures that they participate in some of the upside potential.
True, the Treasury would take equity stakes in some firms, so there would be some upside potential.
China does not want its large current-account surplus to cause the currency to overshoot on the upside, and it may now want to slow the renminbi's appreciation because of concern about the global economic slowdown.
And there is plenty of upside.
The upside is that this has helped to maintain high GDP growth rates.
Yet, despite this good news, the continent's politics have turned upside down, calling into question whether economic success can be sustained.
Still, there is an upside here. Europe's relatively newfound fiscal discipline probably was a blessing in maintaining market confidence, and thus in immunizing the Continent, during the Asian, Russian, and Brazilian financial panics.
So far, the downside and upside risks for the world economy are balanced.