They didn't have any width on the left-hand side so they were a little bit lop-sided.
Looking at the lop-sided instrument in my hand, it is clear that the inability to prevent and deter weighs far heavier.
The danger is that the German presidency will entrench this lop-sided approach.
Wales had a "lop-sided" system of devolution, with law-making powers granted by a referendum in March, but far less power over its finances.
Kevin Rudd could not even command enough support to make the leadership ballot competitive, and stepped down rather than suffering an embarrassing, lop-sided defeat.
Lop-sided demand has created a logistical headache for shipping lines: they cannot find enough containers in Asia for the journey to America and Europe.
"The Nasa programme is looking quite lop-sided at the moment" according to Professor Andrew Coates, the head of planetary science at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory.
"These are meant to be the showcase events for our game, yet they contain many lop-sided matches that were never going to be a contest, " added Ponting.
Such moves are almost certainly necessary to convince most nationalists that the outcome of any negotiations will not, as in the past, either leave the status quo in place or be lop-sided in favour of the unionists.
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