Weight
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For some people, this will mean expensive genetic testing and designer diets, but for most, it will mean realistic advice based on visibly demonstrable phenotypes – a tendency to gain weight, for example, or an intolerance or allergic response to certain food types.
But NATO is also acting because some European countries want to show Washington that they can pull their security
weight
even though they refuse to go near the war in Iraq.
As The Economist has noted, “talk of Europe’s relative decline seems to be everywhere just now….You may hear glum figures about Europe’s future
weight
and with some reason.
In the new order, strong states will throw their
weight
around with little care for the rules-based system that the EU has long epitomized.
To his mind, the country with more neighbors than any other country on the continent should not throw its
weight
around.
Maintaining France's
weight
within the European Union should have led Chirac to re-confirm Lamy when José Manuel Barroso took over as President of the Commission.
In order to remain a country that punches above its
weight
diplomatically, it is in France’s interest to operate through international organizations rather than to rely on bilateral relationships.
The size of the new oil reserves adds even more
weight
to Brazil’s growing global influence.
Quality of talent, infrastructure, energy costs, and speed to market are assuming greater
weight
in such decisions.
The result is a massive budget deficit, which will expand to gargantuan proportions in the coming year (perhaps $1 trillion) under the added
weight
of recession, bank bailouts, and short-term fiscal stimulus measures.
We determined that an effective market-entry reward could be funded by small levies on the sales of the other top-50 pharmaceutical firms that are not carrying their
weight.
But because of the
weight
of electric batteries, their limited range, cost, and other considerations, batteries are best suited primarily for short-range city cars.
As a result, its
weight
in international investors’ portfolios is miniscule.
But neither Japan nor the European Union seems ready to pull its own weight, owing in part to decades of dependency on US security.
If Russia is going to throw its
weight
around, it is better to have allies among those affected.
Japan has historically punched above its
weight
in world affairs.
And, finally, politicians generally defend their policies in terms of how they affect the middle class or the poor, not the arithmetic average of incomes across an economy – which gives equal
weight
to a $1 increase in the income of a poor person and that of a billionaire.
But so, too, is the court’s decision, which evidently assigned little
weight
to their arguments.
For the past ten years, the greatest practical barrier to peace has been Israel’s failure to carry out any true withdrawal to its 1967 borders, owing to the political
weight
of hundreds of thousands of settlers in the West Bank and the religious and secular communities that support them.
With leverage and speculation increasing on a cumulative basis, this whole process was bound to end with monetary policy losing its effectiveness, and the economy suffering under the
weight
of imbalances (or “headwinds”) built up over the course of many years.
Meanwhile, Brazil is intent on assuming a regional and global political role that corresponds to its growing economic
weight.
It would be far better to consider the full range of possibilities highlighted by the models on offer, instead of putting all the
weight
on a single one.
In China, food prices account for about a third of the CPI basket, with the price of pork bearing a large
weight.
While Greece’s eurozone partners may be able to carry it for decades this way, and even to bail out Spain, the system would surely collapse under the
weight
of a larger economy.
Confronting continued, albeit fraying sanctions, Qadaffi threw his
weight
behind the pragmatists, turning the Lockerbie bombers over to face trial, renouncing the terrorism that he had promoted, and expelling the foreign terrorists who made Libya their home.
As a large power, China will have great
weight
in any circumstance, and it can reduce its self-inflicted damage by agreeing to a code of conduct.
The long-term pain treatment with the strongest empirical support involves lifestyle modifications such as exercise, stress reduction, and
weight
loss – all of which require significant time and effort.
But there are many smaller-scale examples, such as Oklahoma City, which lost one million pounds of collective
weight
in a population of about 600,000; we hope the people involved will join with HICCup to share their experiences, good and bad.
Hostility on the football pitch merely reflects the existing tense relations between the two countries, which carry the
weight
of a painful history.
The Habsburg empire had its own potential grand deal – a major political reorganization that would have altered the political
weight
of its nationalities – but it was never concluded.
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