Example collocations logo

Weight in sentence

1439 examples of Weight in a sentence

If the pilot is successful, we will have found a way to support the development of drugs and vaccines that gives equal weight to protecting the lives and improving the health of all human beings, irrespective of their nationality or wealth.
Because of its very relevance, historical heft, and cultural baggage, France mistrusts the changes taking place around it – as though the weight of its nationhood were keeping it from taking flight and narrowing its horizons.
There were also proponents of flexible inflation targeting, who held that it was fine to put some weight on real GDP growth in the short run, so long as there was a clear longer-term target for CPI inflation.
In Europe, by contrast, greater weight is placed on the avoidance of risk, which is undermining private-sector confidence in investing in innovation.
China and India are seeking global influence commensurate with their economic weight;Brazil and South Africa are emerging as continental powerhouses, and hydrocarbon-fueled Russia is chafing at its status on the margins of the Western system.
In many other international organizations as well, France punches above its weight.
A scale salesman once told me that many people, despite being willing to share their weight with a doctor, do not want to look at the precise numbers themselves.
They embodied the Franco-German commitment to a unified, peaceful Europe, able to pull its weight globally only if and when it acts in unity and with a sense of purpose.
In a piece dated April 3, 2016, a former Le Monde diplo editor, Alain Gresh, and others, called Ramadan’s voice one that “carries weight in poor neighborhoods” and to which “young people listen.”
To be credible as a mediator of this mechanism, the IMF itself would need reform, including a substantial change of voting power to bring the influence of developing countries in line with the weight they carry nowadays in the global economy.
China is facing increasing pressure (particularly from the US) to assume a global political role that corresponds to its economic weight.
Almost the entire weight of the European project rests on the shoulders of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Many North Koreans are already malnourished, their body weight and height substantially lower than that of South Koreans.
The weight of the water impounded in the dam’s massive reservoir was said to have triggered severe tectonic stresses, or what scientists call reservoir-triggered seismicity.
“The weight of a human life,” he declared, “is heavier than the earth itself.”
If qualifications have any weight in selecting the next Chief of the IMF, Mr. Rato would not even make the first cut.
Using computer modeling to optimize stock-to-cash ratios, portfolio insurance told investors to reduce the weight on stocks in falling markets as a way of limiting downside risk.
These cases will eventually collapse under the weight of their collective absurdity.
The weight of evidence indicates that the cost of undoing the mistake of pushing unemployment down too far is itself very low, at least for countries like the US, where the relationship has been carefully studied.
The region as a whole continues to lose weight in world politics, largely because it lacks a coherent, common project.
The weight of votes in the middle class would carry the day.
The increasing economic weight of Asia is also a geopolitical game-changer.
South Africa and India also continue to punch below their apparent weight internationally (notwithstanding Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visibility).
Of course it must continuously balance the two, but both have equal weight.
Here the first step is relatively straightforward: all three countries must give greater weight to factoring into their diplomatic calculations the others’ national-security fears.
But this does not imply a complete break with Russia, whose weight in Polish exports has tripled since 2004.
To be sure, the Brown precedent is not entirely analogous, for there the Supreme Court gave weight to foreign policy considerations in just the way that the federal executive had urged.
By throwing its full weight into this task, Germany would not only promote Europe’s influence in the world; it would also deflate the discussion of hegemony.
Germany should put its full weight behind “pooling and sharing” military resources, even if the United Kingdom is resistant to such an effort.
But, as Carson’s campaign has collapsed under the weight of his obliviousness to policy, Cruz has emerged as the greatest threat to Trump in the early contests.
BackNext