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  • Heavyweight oil can take on the consistency of taffy in cold temperatures and drag down a battery in a hurry, so plan to switch to a lighter grade of oil if you're flying into sub-zero conditions.
  • She huffed, stood up, arched her back in a heavyweight stretch, turned to the fountain and started in on a long, long drink.
  • Tyson pays his respects to the last guy who beat him and Britain's undisputed world heavyweight champion.
  • There is wrestling with college kids at Fresno State, where he was an All-American junior heavyweight.
  • Its main characters are played by a dream team of heavyweight Hollywood dames (Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore) whose involvement screams ‘respectability’.
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  • It was foolish of you to pick a fight with a heavyweightboxing champion!
  • What we have here are two heavyweights not so much leaning on each other as holding one another up. The Sun
  • He had won 18 fights in a row since turning professional after winning Olympic light-heavyweight gold in Rome.
  • Having two heavyweights in its corner will give it more clout when dealing with governments. Times, Sunday Times
  • As the country's political heavyweights picked city youngsters off a playground slide, it was clear that these images were designed to kick-start the conference in the Sunday papers.
  • I'm a light heavyweight, but this guy looked well over heavyweight and his tattoos made him look like a statue desecrated by graffiti.
  • And here we are in these floor-length indigo-dyed cotton culottes that have 25 pleats in them, and this sort of heavyweight double-stitched cotton top.
  • When the great US sportswriter George Plimpton told Muhammad Ali's trainer Angelo Dundee that the Italian heavyweight Primo Carnera used to wrap a stout rubber band round his member at night to prevent arousal, Dundee laughed scornfully. Sportsmen and their women: history's great divide
  • If, as we forecast on page one, he is confirmed as unpaid chairman, then the company's boss will at least bring some heavyweight experience to the group.
  • Opinion polls put his likely score at 12%, which makes him the ‘third man’ - the candidate who could end up acting as a power broker between the two heavyweights.
  • For four years there were no title fights for the welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight or heavyweight crowns.
  • The harm is if people start thinking these lightweights are providing heavyweight answers.
  • And it came out in the afternoon, while the heavyweight establishment News ruled the morning.
  • By now the cross-country vehicle had disgorged its complement of heavyweight occupants, also dressed in identical blue suits.
  • At the 2003 games, the USA qualified a spot in three divisions: featherweight, welterweight and super heavyweight.
  • With a manual transmission, the fluid needed is regular motor oil, heavyweight hypoid gear oil or sometimes, automatic transmission fluid. Naplesnews.com Stories
  • He was born 177 years ago and was universally recognised as the bareknuckle world heavyweight champion. The Sun
  • This is a heavyweight resource about news and breakthroughs in the world of science.
  • The former world heavyweight champ was supposed to write a book documenting his prison experiences but clearly finds fiction more enjoyable.
  • The former heavyweight champion was outwitted and outfought.
  • It was like one of those captivating heavyweight fights where the challenger takes a pounding but the beating is only physical and his spirit remains unspoilt.
  • The point is that we really don't know how to evaluate him when matched with a top tier heavyweight.
  • The greatest event in sports is world heavyweight boxing.
  • So it looks like we're still stuck with this political heavyweight. The Sun
  • Her extraordinary intelligence and speaking ability made her a political heavyweight.
  • On top of that he made 20 consecutive title defenses during his seven year reign as heavyweight champion, only Joe Louis made more with 25.
  • At 25, he is moving into the peak of his career at a world football heavyweight. The Sun
  • Usually, these songs don't come from the heavyweight and cool end of the music biz, more the top forty pop 'n' fizz market.
  • The baby is due on July 4 and the 31-year-old heavyweight comic said he was ‘thrilled’ with the news.
  • American political heavyweights and reclusive Hollywood stars will come together in New York next month to help two Irish men launch a new glossy magazine for dog lovers.
  • And he will depend on a trusted national security adviser to cajole and hammer this collection of heavyweights into a coherent team.
  • As the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, he rightfully believed that the title position put his place in the uppity-stratospheric levels shared by other internationally famous, extremely wealthy and very powerful male WASP sports figures of his day (think Babe Ruth or John L. Sullivan). The Daily News - News
  • He claimed to have heavyweight support and the Yorkshire Post found plenty of backing for his campaign, which provides the first rallying point for the many people who think another tier of government will be a waste of time at best.
  • If not a thoroughly convincing victory it further establishes Mason in the heavyweight division and his career will now take definite shape.
  • The trouble is, unfair as it may seem, a sizeable part of judgment is based on precedent - heavyweight disapproval is saved for those who ‘aren't normally like that’.
  • I figured I don't have to go out there and be a high-flying junior heavyweight.
  • On top of that he made 20 consecutive title defenses during his seven year reign as heavyweight champion, only Joe Louis made more with 25.
  • But over the years, this former heavyweight champion went from mauling other fighters to brutalizing people far removed from the boxing ring.
  • There was a period in the 90s when Nelson held the World Boxing Federation heavyweight title.
  • In showing contempt for the heavyweight championship Douglas offended a stern code.
  • It was built from a combination of heavyweight concrete and steel ballast to develop the required weight.
  • The new company has assembled a heavyweight team. Times, Sunday Times
  • This allows smallish heavyweights to gradually move up without putting their careers at risk, in particular early in their careers.
  • During the '90s, he saw little competition as the heavyweight champion in the group fitness ring.
  • Reynaud therefore decided that it would be necessary to get rid of both men, and he spent the following weeks squaring political heavyweights so as to isolate Daladier.
  • You're the former undisputed world cruiserweight champion and four times heavyweight champion of the world. The Sun
  • The advantages of the stumpy standup rods and harness is that playing of a heavyweight fish becomes a real contest of endurance and technique, rather than muscularity and brute strength.
  • Previous efforts to establish equities-type exchanges in this market have failed in the face of strong opposition from most banks, despite heavyweight backing, most notably from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Reuters. Necessary and neutral
  • All three models include specialized pockets, plus spacious main compartments that fit adjustable plastic tackle trays, and are made of heavyweight 600-denier waterproof nylon that is sewn with rot-resistant thread. A New Rifle, Strong Leaders and Tackle Bag
  • The latest heavyweight report investigating pay inequalities between the genders landed last week, with a huge thwack, on news editors' desks up and down the country.
  • Over the past decade, many Taiwanese political heavyweights and celebrities in various fields have visited the library.
  • She had no senior heavyweight figure like Cherwell or Swinton to advise her, and indeed no close colleague at all.
  • Britain's other past and present heavyweight champions also saluted Ali. The Sun
  • The ageing fighter comes out of retirement to take on the reigning heavyweight champion. The Sun
  • Tipping the scales at a whopping 28500, this is the heavyweight of the bunch.
  • Next up was the NASC women's competition premiere, with five women, two heavyweights, one middleweight and two lightweights.
  • Political heavyweights take opposite sides as fight for. Times, Sunday Times
  • That is like the heavyweight's kryptonite. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mike Tyson was heavyweight champion of the world.
  • And in thin trading in the City, banks and telecom stocks were among the heavyweight blue-chips helping to fuel the late rally.
  • He's certainly got the power but this is only his fifth fight as a heavyweight and against by far his best opponent. The Sun
  • The undisputed heavyweight champion of sporting goods has continued to outshine its former sparring partner. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a part of me that finds it hard to believe because Ali took it to the body better than any heavyweight ever.
  • I'm sitting with the heavyweight champion of the world on the apron of a boxing ring, our legs dangling over its edge.
  • The report makes it clear that despite the haughty posturing of national security heavyweights, we do not have adults watching the store.
  • Perhaps some other political, er, heavyweights could benefit from his example.
  • Velocities ranged from over 1,200 feet per second for the lighter weight bullets to just under 1,000 feet per second for the heavyweights.
  • The South African team consists of two other boxers - featherweight Mathebula and Venter, a light heavyweight.
  • He was taller than a lot of heavyweights and a southpaw to boot.
  • The departure of the two heavyweight props will enable the purse strings to be loosened. Times, Sunday Times
  • And by star, I don\'t mean theatrical heavyweights like Ethel Merman, George M. Cohan or Bert Lahr -- these names certainly mean little to nothing when it comes to the current theatregoing masses. James Sims: Ragtime Battles Celebrity Factor on Broadway, Closes Proudly
  • Playing the twitchy bantamweight to Sean P. 's hulking heavyweight, Buckshot bounced onto the stage almost three hours in and powered through Black Moon standards "Buck 'Em Down" and "I Got Cha Opin," then set off the night's second mosh pit with the whole Boot Camp performing the Jamaican dance hall-influenced smash "Sound Bwoy Bureill. Music review: Boot Camp Clik at Liv
  • The two heavyweights shook hands and spoke for a few moments.
  • Fraudley Harrison, a supremely outstanding amateur turned incredibly unambitious professional, claimed last week: ‘My plan is to be heavyweight champion of the world.’
  • State heavyweight iron and steel plant and dust bag factory designated manufacturers.
  • He may lack a big head but the biceps are a heavyweight boxer's. Times, Sunday Times
  • The departure of the two heavyweight props will enable the purse strings to be loosened. Times, Sunday Times
  • The story went around that he had fought the heavyweight boxer and got the better of him, and this was a tale he could not control. Times, Sunday Times
  • The heavyweight champion will be given a shot at Holyfield's world title.
  • The undisputed heavyweight champion of sporting goods has continued to outshine its former sparring partner. Times, Sunday Times
  • But at that time, he was a tall, rangy heavyweight, barely 200 pounds.
  • Among the established heavyweights there has been extensive backing of Holland with bookmakers, while Spain are justifiably in fashion compared to relatively poor vintages on offer from Germany and Italy.
  • While Dr Lamont is about to embark on a three-year study on the history of magic at Edinburgh University, academics at Glasgow University have conducted a heavyweight series of seminars on the subject.
  • Suddenly the world was confronted with a heavyweight champion who was a larger-than-life character that many did not like. Times, Sunday Times
  • Burns was one of top three heavyweights at the time and certainly was the best white heavyweight when Jackson fought him.
  • He's a former world heavyweight boxing champion.
  • There are two Hollywood heavyweights competing for this fiercely contested prize. The Sun
  • Some 11-year-olds are so obese they weigh more than heavyweight boxers. The Sun
  • The heavyweight champion will be given a shot at Holyfield's world title.
  • In 1916, in front of 30,000 people in Barcelona, he fought heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, who knocked him out in the sixth round.
  • He's a former heavyweight champion and is expected to win the bout easily.
  • Even TV channels that are supposed to carry heavyweight stuff will toss in cabbages such as pro-Nessie arguments without moderation by the skeptics. Radio in decline
  • Seemingly phased out of boxing through a combination of age and lack of opponents, Toney now seeks to become a middle-aged star in mixed martial arts, beginning with a catchweight contest with former three-time heavyweight champion Couture, and ending with an unlikely shot at Lesnar's super-sized belt. Elliot Worsell: The Lights Are on and Lesnar's Home
  • At 6 feet, 4 inches, he has a reach advantage of an inch and a half on Stefan Struve, a heavyweight fighter seven inches taller. Has UFC Found Its Transcendent Star?
  • The only man to retire from the punishing demands of the heavyweight category unbowed by defeat in any fight was Rocky Marciano.
  • Klitschko was the darling of the boxing ‘fancy,’ widely regarded as the savior of a weak post-Lennox Lewis heavyweight division.
  • The longest title reign in heavyweight history is shortened to four years instead of just under 12.
  • The fighter on which Rocky was patterned was a fellow named Chuck Wepner, aka the Bayonne Bleeder, a no-hoper heavyweight who got a fight with Mohammed Ali in 1975, and got the stuffings pounded out of him. Medal Finalists Announced
  • As [Harvard professor Marc] Hauser faces federal inquiry, many of his former co-authors, graduate students, and undergraduate advisees struggle to comprehend how the man they knew as a prolific researcher, skilled communicator, and heavyweight in the field of cognitive psychology became enmeshed in scandal. A Harvard Professor's Fall From Grace
  • Sure, many of the heavyweights featured in the series are no longer around, but the BBC managed to unearth a trove of old footage, much of which had not been seen previously by a British audience.
  • The fighter once regarded as the most talented heavyweight, Mike Tyson, has become better known for doing violence outside the ring than in it.
  • Now a testament to the broad-minded nature of today's canvas-dwelling youth or evidence of the deep divides that separate music fans, the event compiles performers into day-by-day categories: hard rockers, tried and tested indie heavyweights and People's Choice favourites, bills which alternate between Reading and its sister venture in West Yorkshire. This week's new live music
  • Have you ever seen a World Heavyweight Champion be so careless with his crown?
  • The departure of the two heavyweight props will enable the purse strings to be loosened. Times, Sunday Times
  • THERE are two Tigers here lining up against each other for the heavyweight championship of his world. Times, Sunday Times
  • Haye's feud with the dominant Klitschko siblings is ongoing, having lost his WBA heavyweight title ignominiously to IBF/WBO champion Wladimir in Hamburg last July before setting his sights on a shot at WBC champion Vitali. Evening Standard - Home
  • He was a heavyweight boxer before he became an actor.
  • Some members of the academy feel that Coelho's work is best classed as ‘literature light’ and not worthy of a place in the pantheon of the country's intellectual and literary heavyweights.
  • At the world championships in Budapest in 1997 Chagaev, who was then 19, beat Savon in a bad-tempered and controversial heavyweight final.
  • Precisely the same argument applies to one of Fury's most illustrious predecessors as heavyweight champion. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ageing fighter comes out of retirement to take on the reigning heavyweight champion. The Sun
  • The heavyweight championship of the world was the richest prize in sport. Times, Sunday Times
  • The lesson of the trial was that destroying the credibility of witnesses is a defence strategy that can outbalance the traditional heavyweight pointers of motive, means and opportunity.
  • One expects really big heavyweights to be lumbering creatures, powerful but as clumsy as the larger dinosaurs. Times, Sunday Times
  • They dismissed him as "a third-rate Western lawyer" and an "illiterate partisan" compared with heavyweights like New York's William Seward and Ohio's Salmon P. Chase. Fight, Vote, Fight
  • A former cruiserweight world champ, he moved up to heavyweight and people doubted his chances. The Sun
  • But it's a heavyweight fighting a middleweight. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her extraordinary intelligence and speaking ability made her a political heavyweight.
  • JPs took pity on the ex world heavyweight champ who said he needed to drive for his charity work with young people. The Sun
  • And before that, you were the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, am I right?
  • The Worlds allow one entrant per division per country, while the World Games are one men's lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight per continent.
  • Well, listen up, because some Hollywood heavyweights have dropped the pounds, and people like you and me are now half their size.
  • Bull 1980 in which director Martin Scorsese and his leading man, Robert De Niro, take the poignant story of heavyweight champ Jake LaMotta and alchemise it into a parable about anger, masculinity and human frailty, providing - in the scene where De Niro's hero beats his fists against the walls of his concrete cell - one of cinema's great images of futility and rage. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Sly is now 68 so location scouts will be looking for a smaller set of steps for the one-time heavyweight champ to run up. The Sun
  • The perception in the States is that I'm a typical European heavyweight who's fought only over-the-hill guys, or nobodies.
  • In one of his columns, the urbane Noël Coward is introduced by the columnist to "Two-Ton" Tony Galento, the fireplug Jersey heavyweight who once knocked down Joe Louis. Before Gossip Was Gawkerfied
  • Perhaps we have been wrong in thinking him a serious, heavyweight politician.
  • Since his death there may not have been a drop-off in crime but the number of high-profile criminal heavyweights has waned.
  • This week he proclaimed modestly that he was going to become heavyweight champion and then the world's leading promoter. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then I thought, this guy is a heavyweight cultural icon, better get a grip and make an effort to take it seriously.
  • The life of luxury has its cost, and former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson says he can't afford it anymore.
  • A long-term pauper of the NRL, the Knights could conceivably become a financial heavyweight almost overnight if the club's plan to attract private investment becomes a reality. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
  • Multiple zips, studded shoes or a neck adorned with heavyweight chains all work. Times, Sunday Times
  • America has won eight lightweight seven middleweight and eight heavyweight medals - 10 of which are gold.
  • But the palpable excitement of managing the undisputed champion of heavyweight boxing has gone.
  • By 1959 Henry was good enough to mix it up with the best middleweights and light heavyweights in the world.
  • WHITEHALL -- Zach Haynes stayed off his back in a 3-1 loss to Whitehall heavyweight Grant Gebo, allowing Hudson Falls to slip away with a 38-36 non-league victory over the Railroaders on Thursday night. Poststar.com RSS
  • For erudition and enthusiasm, the roster of academic heavyweights who sail on the Minerva is hard to beat. Times, Sunday Times
  • The milquetoast types of New Labour never come off well when they try to act like self-styled pugnacious political heavyweights.
  • Finally he is paired with the champion in a heavyweight title fight.
  • About the only thing today's heavyweights provide is a headache to those who follow them.
  • Susana Alonso, Women's World Amateur heavyweight winner, made beautiful posing music with Armando Villa to take the top prize.
  • So what will be served up in Rome tomorrow night is a footballing heavyweight championship of the world, a unification bout. Times, Sunday Times
  • And this year there is added spice, with the future of a political heavyweight on the line.
  • A group of commercial real-estate heavyweights that made a big play on the distressed market earlier this year by buying into LNR Property Corp. has now tapped two executives who helped run Deutsche Bank AG's highflying commercial-property business, according to people familiar with the matter. LNR Taps Vets of Deutsche Bank
  • The grander, more spacious architecture is accompanied by a greater emphasis on the more heavyweight monsters, like cacodemons and mancubi, especially in the outdoor areas.
  • It was built from a combination of heavyweight concrete and steel ballast to develop the required weight.
  • He saw a lot of action in his rise to a brigadier generalcy during World War I, but perhaps the toughest fight of his career occurred when he was a second lieutenant and was a sparing partner for James ‘Gentleman Jim’ Corbett, who was preparing for his famous heavyweight title match with John L. Sullivan in 1892.
  • Unlike most heavyweights, is a picky eater, no spicy foods.
  • The World's allow one entrant per division per country, while the World Games are one men's lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight per continent.
  • Bunett's prose is often loaded with arty jargon and heavyweight expressions that are virtually incomprehensible.
  • Indeed he looks far more chiselled than most heavyweight boxers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Among the eight contestants in the constituency, five are backed by parties and most are political heavyweights.
  • As a rower on the 2000 U.S. Olympic team, Nuzum managed an eighth-place finish in the heavyweight double sculls in the Sydney Games.
  • But some government insiders fear that progress will be slow without continued heavyweight political backing. Times, Sunday Times
  • He had wagered that she would be a Teutonic heavyweight with callosities growing on her forehead.
  • These people seemed to have their weight evenly distributed to all areas of their body, making them an all-around heavyweight.
  • The Globe article comes with an amazing college picture of Kerry, which makes him look like the 1933 heavyweight champ Primo Carnera, a simple-minded acromegalic giant with a pituitary gland problem. Archive 2005-06-05
  • The ageing fighter comes out of retirement to take on the reigning heavyweight champion. The Sun
  • Multiple zips, studded shoes or a neck adorned with heavyweight chains all work. Times, Sunday Times
  • Moreover, Hearns moved up to middleweight and eventually up to the light heavyweight division.
  • With the weight penalty (a heavyweight publication), either hand carry it on the plane, or send it early for the festive season by sea mail!
  • The heavyweights carried 150-pound dumbbells and the lightweights carried 125-pound dumbbells.
  • The Worlds allow one entrant per division per country, while the World Games are one men's lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight per continent.
  • He held the world heavyweight title until last year.
  • Heavyweights throw like one-two-three punches and grab and clinch and grab and clinch.
  • Initially attired in heavyweight fabrics, and sackcloth aprons - the sort of robust clothing necessary to withstand the rigour of their work - the girls were often criticised for their lack of femininity.
  • The one that consumes the best diet for growing antlers and gaining weight will be the heavyweight in the fight. Christianity Today
  • Certain political heavyweights have reportedly even banged on the table during the meetings.
  • This would have been unlikely two months ago but the heavyweight darts legend is a man reborn, thanks to his participation in this project.
  • That would be Walker's farewell fight in heavyweight and his career began to slide.
  • It was a close contest, without doubt, and both men deserve credit for a decent heavyweight championship bout.
  • Brought up surrounded by power, the sons of former party heavyweights are now after their own seats. The Sun
  • The finals of the Baby Champs are to be held at Sammy Marks Square in Pretoria on Friday with every division from strawweight to heavyweight being contested. Fightnews - Boxing News Updated 24/7
  • In time, perhaps, the elusive Higgs boson might be found or not found, so conclusively settling the long-running grudge match between boffinry heavyweight Professor Higgs and his nemesis, famed wheelchair robovoice savant Stephen Hawking. The Register
  • Foster possessed one of the most powerful punches ever seen on a light heavyweight, his left hook.
  • I cannot leave the store without purchasing two pairs of heavyweight moleskins.
  • It ends with Williams-Wright, but on the undercard is a bout featuring one of the two most exciting heavyweights, Chris Arreola (the other being David Haye) in a step-up fight against Jameel McCline. MVN
  • The heavyweight division of boxing consists of one great puncher and a string of weak punch lines.
  • That night besides the paltry purse, the other thing that was at stake was the Kentucky Heavyweight Championship.
  • After their see-saw battles, which boxing fans regard as perhaps the best ever heavyweight championship series, Ali reached the status of athletic godhead.
  • Heavyweight boxers usually slump into an exhausted embrace after battering each other for 15 bruising rounds.
  • But, no matter how good they are, featherweights never capture the American imagination like heavyweights, and the Prince soon tasted defeat at the gloves of Marco Antonio Barrera.
  • Many heavyweight fighters have scored impressive knockouts in their careers, but nothing to this magnitude.
  • Archie went back to defending his light heavyweight crown stopping the highly regarded Tony Anthony in seven rounds.
  • And by star, I don't mean theatrical heavyweights like Ethel Merman, George M. Cohan or Bert Lahr -- these names certainly mean little to nothing when it comes to the current theatregoing masses. James Sims: Ragtime Battles Celebrity Factor on Broadway, Closes Proudly
  • But there are heavyweight champions I think that, even as a middleweight, I could have beaten.
  • The braillewriter uses heavyweight paper (just like the braille printer) but it doesn't need any electricity to work.
  • The heavyweight championship of the world was the richest prize in sport. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sly is now 68 so location scouts will be looking for a smaller set of steps for the one-time heavyweight champ to run up. The Sun
  • It is all very well home-grown managers moaning when heavyweight clubs import multilingual coaching nous but how many would be prepared to follow in the footprints of Europa League finalists Fulham's much-travelled Roy Hodgson and hone hitherto underdeveloped skills in sometimes testing, technically demanding, overseas habitats? Twente's Steve McClaren proves value of leaping into the unknown
  • Today, Ali would be a ‘small Heavyweight ‘based on his peak weight and Joe Louis would be a cruiserweight at his best!’
  • Their battle in April was one of the more thrilling heavyweight title fights of recent memory.
  • Heavyweight hitters went down swinging against federal Bill C - 2, which had its final readings in the Senate this week.
  • It's supposed to be a fight between the best light heavyweight in the world and the 25th heavyweight in the world.

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