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They are bred to have voracious appetites and gain
weight
as fast as possible, then reared in sheds that can hold more than 20,000 birds.
Slaughtered at only 45 days old, their immature bones can hardly bear the
weight
of their bodies.
Russia’s leaders view Sino-American competition as a welcome addition to their country’s strategic weight, which, unlike China’s, is not being augmented by robust economic growth.
Ill health due to malaria also directly reduces household income by incapacitating workers, causing lost work time, time lost for child-care, impaired cognitive development, and adverse effects during pregnancy resulting in low birth
weight
and producing physical disabilities.
All in all, the vast bulk of malaria's
weight
falls on developing countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, and evidence of a reciprocal relationship with poverty has become increasingly evident.
China’s willingness to throw its
weight
around amplifies the grave imbalance in size, and leverage, between it and the other countries bordering the South China Sea.
Although India’s presidency is primarily a ceremonial post that carries less
weight
than that of prime minister (the position once held by Indira Gandhi), it is symbolically significant.
Many past presidents have also used the position to throw their intellectual
weight
behind such important issues as education and India’s cultural diversity.
Having been pushed by Netanyahu into an unwinnable fight against US President Barack Obama’s administration over its nuclear deal with Iran, AIPAC is now crumbling under the
weight
of its own hubris.
Now, however, as rich countries struggle under the combined
weight
of high debt, low growth, unemployment, and inequality, they will apply greater pressure on developing nations to abide by World Trade Organization rules, which narrow the space for industrial subsidies.
Most forecasting models used by central banks therefore put a large
weight
on recent inflation.
Europe must redefine itself and identify its mission anew if it wishes to retain its geopolitical
weight.
If they were, the West would need only to wait for its adversaries to collapse under the
weight
of their own contradictions: Russia’s overestimation of its means, and, in the case of the Islamic State, the consequences of its appallingly cruel behavior.
The lesson that Schroeder drew was to insist that Germany could no longer be taken for granted and would demand a role commensurate to its size and
weight.
Then Merkel will be in a key position to add
weight
to a new effort for moving the EU forward.
After all, as Roosevelt pointed out, documents expressing ideals “carry no
weight
unless the people know them, unless the people understand them, unless the people demand that they be lived.”
And though the BRICS did get these institutions to reform their voting structures to give developing countries greater weight, the US and Europe still wield disproportionate power.
The EU gives Britain a
weight
collectively that it lacks on its own.
From the two billion adults who carry too much
weight
to the 159 million children with stunted growth, malnutrition takes many forms.
Perhaps the least obvious face of malnutrition is not undernutrition, but excessive
weight
and obesity.
Beyond heart disease, that extra
weight
raises the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and more.
They gave greater
weight
to investments in people, launching innovative initiatives to bring health care and access to finance to more of their citizens, and creating social funds to help develop local communities.
Having historically punched above its
weight
internationally, Japan is responding to China’s muscular rise by strengthening its own position in the region.
Peter Mugyenyi, who runs the Joint Clinical Research Center, told me that part of the problem is the sheer
weight
of numbers.
As hard as the finance ministry may try to balance expenditures and revenues, it lacks the needed political
weight.
Given the Fund’s origins in helping to rebuild Europe after World War II, European countries are also very well represented on its executive board and in terms of ownership shares (and thus voting
weight
on important decisions).
But he was wrong to suggest that the EU is set to buckle and collapse under the
weight
of the multiple crises it faces.
Lending to eurozone governments continues to have a zero risk
weight.
And the leader of Germany’s Social Democrats, Martin Schulz, has also thrown his
weight
behind a “United States of Europe” in recent days.
But the process takes time, and, because of the rising
weight
of relatively inflexible emerging market economies in global consumption, adjustment will probably take longer than it did a few decades ago.
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