How To Use Weighing In A Sentence

  • Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
  • It's really weighing her down because she's not living up to her ideals any longer.
  • In the Mhow area of India, where it is common practice to feed goats on the leaves of trees gathered in the forest, an experiment was conducted with uncastrated male goats aged about 14 months and weighing some 25 kg. Chapter 6
  • According to John Ralson, who apparently has some sort of Avatar-like connection to all living things in the Silver State, Berkley had been weighing the decision for a while but ultimately decided that the opportunity was too good to pass up. HUFFPOST HILL - Congress Passes Budget, Catastrophe Postponed
  • The prodigiously capable Louise, for instance, is weighing the relative claims upon her imagination of long jumping and bobsleigh.
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  • The very first day I discovered the moisture meter in the mixer was not working properly, giving an inconsistent mix and the cement weigh batcher was weighing inconsistent amounts for each batch. Undefined
  • True to form, the finished 2003 wines delivered record-breaking levels of tannin, sugar and alcohol; many châteaux have made clarets weighing in at 15 per cent-plus alcohol, as in Australia and California.
  • Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany has remained tight-lipped about options the conference might be weighing. Size of tournament, conference expansion lead NCAA agenda
  • But it's all kept very low key with no rock-star nonsense by surf-celebrator Malloy, whose stylish documentary elevates all of the tour's nuances Endless Summer-style, with human moments outweighing grandeur and without the bro-chatter of the latter. Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: Jack Johnson, R.E.M., Train, Dolly, Carly, and More, Plus U2 Plays The Rose Bowl, and This Week's New Albums
  • In addition, there would be a spectator app that tracks horses' positions and provides audio commentary and video content from the weighing room. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mental burden is weighing him down more than the technical flaw. Times, Sunday Times
  • He's under huge pressure at work and it's really weighing on him.
  • Perhaps the thought of that lonely walk across the ill-omened moor was weighing heavily upon his mind. The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
  • It would be a Roman short sword called a gladius, about 27 inches long, 2 and a half inches wide, weighing three pounds, with a tapered point for thrusting and two sharp edges for cutting. Peacemakers:
  • Should not any intervention be assessed with care, weighing costs against benefits?
  • Measuring at an overwhelming 2.4 metres long and weighing 340 kilograms, this fish is shown at a seafood market in Wenzhou, east China Zhejiang Province on 23 January, 2007. 2007 » January
  • The internal noise level becomes the important index of weighing the grade level of the automobile.
  • What do you do if you find yourself with a lot of change weighing down your purse / pocket/wallet?
  • Again to reduce 94½ Company's Rupees weight of pure silver to the standard of the Cabool Rupee 25 Company's Rupees are added no other alloy is used and the mass weighing 119½ Company's Rupees is coined into Cabool Rupees 147½. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • Inspired by an uninvited muse two days before le jour de l'action de grace, this geezer rolled up his sleeves, cleared a crowded kitchen counter, and proceeded to create deux pain complet weighing at least two pounds each. Potiron - French Word-A-Day
  • We are talking about identifying and weighing one grain of sand in a desert. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
  • It will now try to deliver parcels weighing up to 5lb in 30 minutes. The Sun
  • Genuine conservation means sifting through evidence, weighing options and reaching consensus. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other researchers have suggested that shrinkage occurs when there are long distances between pastures and weighing facilities.
  • Simakobus are medium-sized monkeys, weighing about 20 pounds.
  • After weighing, oven-drying, and reweighing the seeds, we found that seeds lost moisture at a similar rate in the two substrates.
  • Reaching lengths of over two feet in length and weighing over 3 lbs., the hellbender is the largest amphibian species found in North America and the third largest salamander in the world, coming in behind the Chinese and the Japanese giant salamanders which are truly massive. David Mizejewski: Salamander Eating Habits
  • Consider the ceremony of the weighing of the emperor, with all those flamboyantly robed courtiers arranged in strictly hierarchical order around the man-sized scales.
  • Pulling out a rather large bag of gold pieces, he held it out, weighing it out in his hand.
  • The project was a balancing act of weighing options against the project's time.
  • The processing of silica sand including transferring, screening and dewatering, eliminating bridge-formation in the silo, weighing in precision, dust-prevention device etc. has been recommended.
  • Larger folks will appreciate the ample legroom on long journeys, but those weighing less than 165 pounds might find it a bit too much.
  • A machine for weighing people has a scale from one pound to 300 pounds on it.
  • Leaning against a wall in the weighing room after his last ride, he played down the threat of that fall, saying he knew immediately that he had not been crocked again. Ruby Walsh grabs a victory to prove readiness for Cheltenham Festival
  • One of the challenges people have now is weighing up the pros and cons of different vendor platforms. Computing
  • A flat, smooth, oval slab, weighing about fifteen pounds, and a stone roller six inches in diameter, worked with both hands, and the weight of the body kneeling ungracefully upon it on “all fours,” are used to triturate the holcus grain. First footsteps in East Africa
  • He said a person weighing 60 kilograms should consume no more than 42 milligrams of sulphur dioxide per day.
  • When the cases involve two corporations, and the unfolding of events in the context of a charterparty, say, I find myself more naturally weighing both sides equally. The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:
  • It prolongs the durability of the curl, enhancing its elasticity and volume without weighing the hair down.
  • Her brain was severely atrophied, weighing less than half of what it should have.
  • Think about weighing food before cooking it. Times, Sunday Times
  • By appearing to agree to Israel's demand that they keep settlement blocs and maintain a security presence in the Jordan Valley, the U.S. risks weighing in on two critical final status issues in a manner that predetermines their outcome. James Zogby: What Is the Logic?
  • A real Guernsey is 100% wool, made with yarn spun to a certain specification and weighing in at about one kilo. Coolhunter: The Guernsey
  • Discretionary decisions by courts commonly involve weighing the benefits and detriments of a potential outcome.
  • A seven-foot-tall statue at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy, shows the god Atlas kneeling with a globe weighing on his shoulders.
  • Deep inside, St. Francis' bones are locked away in a sepulcher, the immense weight of the Basilica - a place he would have hated - weighing down on top of him.
  • Ranney 15.44 speaks of the successful removal of a unilocular tumor weighing 95 pounds; and Wall 15.45 tells of a death after removal of an ovarian tumor of the same weight. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • The common scenarios in general practice all involve weighing up probabilities and accepting varying degrees of uncertainty.
  • Leeds University scientists have calculated the birds, including tiny quail weighing mere grammes, are five times fitter than our Olympic athletes.
  • Weighing in at 200 lbs. and wielding a microfilament whip that can cut through solid steel: the feared enforcer of the Maggia Crime Family, Blacklash! Marvel Comics Solicitations for May 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • ` ` Od, lass, '' said Mrs. Shortcake, weighing it in her hand, and wishing, doubtless, that the too, too solid wax would melt and dissolve itself, ` ` I wad like to ken what's in the inside o 'this, for that Lovel dings a' that ever set foot on the plainstanes o ' The Antiquary
  • Weights were then progressively added to the weighing boat which caused the petiole to bend, curving upwards.
  • And to observe her Majesty's commands for the ten thousand pounds, we agreed he should take it out of the portion that was landed secretly, and to remove the same out of the place before my son Henry and I should come to the weighing and registering of what was left; and so it was done, and no creature living by me made privy to it but himself; and myself no privier to it than as you may perceive by this. English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4
  • A seller of protection on the MCDX index would pay out on a pro-rata basis when a default occurs, in line with the weighing that the defaulting issuer had in the index. Citi Prepares Tranche Market For Muni-Bond Derivatives
  • Meanwhile, the ride he gave Kingscliff in a handicap chase at Ascot was voted the jumps ride of the year by his weighing room colleagues.
  • It was obvious that she was cautiously weighing me up.
  • The amount of this colorific matter may be estimated quantitatively by noting the quantity of the chloride of lime solution required to destroy this blood-red color in different cases: or the same result may be obtained by macerating for a short period in milk of lime -- filtering -- precipitating the filtered liquor by acetic or muriatic acid -- collecting this precipitate on a weighed filter -- drying at ordinary temperatures and again weighing. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • The amount represents the largest source of money, outweighing contributions from labor unions and political parties.
  • They also found a stash of cocaine, marijuana and a weighing scale. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was obvious that not all these people were lying: a man accustomed to weighing evidence is quick at detecting a lie. The Catalans
  • They came to that conclusion by actually weighing the fouling removed after cleaning with a dry swab.
  • This is a land of festivals, more than any other, whether it means tossing cabers, weighing marrows or staging opera in country houses.
  • The mental burden is weighing him down more than the technical flaw. Times, Sunday Times
  • The postcollege experience is something that is weighing on Mr. Rogers. Some U.S. College Students Look to the U.K.
  • Ten male Sprague-Dawley breeder rats, weighing between 450 and 550 g, were fasted overnight, except for free access to water.
  • Bigger ships known as carracks, mixing square and lateen sails and weighing up to 1000 tons, could sail further and carry more merchandise than ever before.
  • Many of the extinct marsupial megafauna were large, herbivorous browsers, some weighing several tons.
  • The focus of the drama shifts to discovering the dangers, and weighing up pros and cons of using the magic carpet.
  • We are talking about identifying and weighing one grain of sand in a desert. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
  • Pantagruel, having writ his letters, sat down at table with him, and afterwards presented him with a large chain of gold, weighing eight hundred crowns, between whose septenary links some large diamonds, rubies, emeralds, turquoise stones, and unions were alternately set in. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Weighing in at No. 3 on our list, the DV-8 was the overhyped giant robot from the 1990 megaflop, “Crash and Burn.” 2009 February
  • The thief, described as a heavyset black woman weighing between 220 and 240 pounds, parked a blue Volkswagen Beetle in front of the store. Chron.com Chronicle
  • The blackpoll warbler, weighing .5 ounce, migrates up to 6,000 miles and it has been estimated that it flaps its wings roughly four million times during the journey. The Albert Lea Tribune
  • He had always envied huge men and this bull-necked guy was at least six foot five, weighing over 250 pounds. HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
  • In one small-scale study, researchers took tape measures and weighing scales to the real people behind the profiles. Times, Sunday Times
  • After weighing over the problem of translating "meaning", the author tries to show that the "meaning" of the original is conveyable, hence an integral notion of e...
  • Weighing up the risks, Pfizer faces the normal development delays and setbacks which pharmas encounter with regard to the timing, efficacy and market potential of new products.
  • In size and marking it looks very much like a leopard, although the jaguar is the much heavier animal, weighing up to 34 kg.
  • The organ is the largest on the continent with 6,035 pipes, weighing 60 tons and rising to three stories.
  • Which default when as some endeuoured to salue and recure, they patched vp the holes with peces and rags of other languages, borrowing here of the french, there of the Italian, euery where of the Latine, not weighing how il those tongues accorde with themselues, but much worse with ours: So now they have made our English tongue, a gallimaufray or hodgepodge of al other speches. Shepheardes Calendar
  • Olivia was born weighing a healthy 5lb 12 oz.
  • Automatic weighing machines are very accurate and sample packs are taken regularly and weighed as a check.
  • At 23 centimetres high and weighing 3,500 grams the candlesticks are highly ornamental, their tripod bases standing on scallop shell supports, centred by vacant medallions within acanthus leaf foliage on a matted ground.
  • Measuring ten metres in girth, weighing 23 tons and knocking on a bit at about 800 years old, the tree is an impressive - if ungainly - sight.
  • Materials have included 28,000-ft of scaffolding weighing 72 tonnes, 300 kg of plaster and 880 litres of pink and cream paint.
  • Weighing in at 580 tonnes the postage and packing is going to cost a few bob.
  • The output reductions would be made with a view to halting the downward spiral of DRAM prices, itself caused by supply vastly outweighing demand.
  • Blue whales, found in all the oceans of the world, are true leviathans, stretching as long as 100 feet and weighing as much as 200 tons.
  • Allen is a fast runner, despite weighing 325 pounds and having a chest like a barrel.
  • When you are weighing up which lender to go to for your loan, you ignore their differences at your peril.
  • The star lot is a large solitaire diamond weighing 4.50 carats.
  • Not weighing the ingredients carefully when making cakes. The Sun
  • After an awful lot of discussion and weighing of alternatives we've decided that our first choice of new location is to be Matlock and south-west Chesterfield, close by the Derbyshire Peak District.
  • He also struck the largest known gold coin from the ancient world, a numismatic masterpiece weighing 20 staters.
  • In the case of fluorides free from silicates (such as fluor-spar), it is determined indirectly by decomposing a weighed portion with sulphuric acid, evaporating, igniting, and weighing the residual sulphate. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
  • What is the dosage of antirabies vaccine for a 5 month old child weighing Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • The firm stress that if you check in online and take hand luggage weighing less than ten kilos, there will be no charge. The Sun
  • Genuine conservation means sifting through evidence, weighing options and reaching consensus. Times, Sunday Times
  • Weighing in at about 220 pounds, the saola is the largest land-dwelling mammal introduced to science since the kouprey, or gray ox, was described in 1937.
  • In 1898, after laboriously isolating various substances by successive chemical reactions and crystallizations of the products, which they then tested for their ability to ionize air, the Curies announced the discovery of polonium, and then of radium salts weighing about 0.1 gram that had been derived from tons of uranium ore. Curie, Marie Sklodowska
  • As you can see, they are $3.79 for a little sample package for a chocaholic on-the-go of three little chocolate tablets weighing 9gr each. Archive 2007-06-01
  • Lifting tackle can take up scenery and properties weighing a ton through a trap door in the roof to the second floor, 25 feet above.
  • The work is free of the tired clichéd issues surrounding and weighing down most conceptual installation art.
  • The porpoise is a fish five or six feet in length, weighing from one hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
  • Anthony is as lean and fit as his stockmen and they work together like a well-oiled machine, mustering the cattle through today's weaning, weighing and dipping with practiced ease.
  • Another hint: Many balance problems (including the ones we have looked at here) involve ternary (base 3) arithmetic, either implicitly or explicitly, because there are three possible outcomes to each weighing.
  • They see the disadvantages of doing so outweighing its advantages.
  • Small spaniel dogs weighing up to 25 pounds were called cockers because they were used to hunt woodcocks.
  • The two carriages, each the size of a single-deck bus and weighing 13 tons unladen, arrived in Aviemore borne aloft on a matching pair of stately low-loaders after a journey of some 1,200 miles.
  • She dyed her hair from its natural brown and suffered from anorexia and bulimia, weighing less than six stone in her teenage years. The Sun
  • The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is weighing that issue and has promised G.E. to make a decision by next year.
  • Today, if you are a grocer, you will lose your shirt simply for weighing produce in the old imperial system.
  • Eventually we realized that this first crop provided a wonderful learning opportunity, greatly outweighing the short-term cost.
  • There have been no single straws - more a gross of wire bound bales weighing down and breaking asunder a once optimistic and enthusiastic camel's back.
  • Their altricial cubs are born in mid-winter, with their eyes closed, and weighing only about 0.6 kg.
  • He took off his shoes. If they had to swim, he didn't want anything weighing him down.
  • Weighing in at a hefty 6.5 pounds and sporting an embossed reproduction of the head of Albrecht Durer's Rhinoceros on the soft-bound cover, this catalog delivers a fascinating look at the scientific technology of the sixteenth century and the celebrated artists who participated in it. Jane Chafin: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge
  • Officers also found electronic weighing scales, cling film, food bags and a further block of cocaine hidden under some tea towels.
  • After flat-ironing your hair, it is best to use a lightweight serum or sheen that will smooth frizz without weighing down the hair.
  • And kinglets are one of the smallest songbirds, weighing in at around 6 or 7 grams, or the same weight as an American nickel and a dime.
  • Just 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighing a little over six stones, she had a special trolley provided by the Post Office to help carry the heavy parcels and letters around.
  • An indignant Cape robin and a sweet waxbill soon followed - each weighing a few grams.
  • Text, speech and vision programs derive meaning from snippets of such data by weighing and reweighing thousands or millions of hypotheses in its light.
  • It will now try to deliver parcels weighing up to 5lb in 30 minutes. The Sun
  • Proposals include removing price controls from all packets and parcels weighing more than 750g. Times, Sunday Times
  • For the first time, Europe will now be able to place into geostationary orbit a payload weighing more than 10 tonnes.
  • Weighing up the pros and cons, I pressed ‘yes’ and got out of there.
  • So taking the bravest-feathered acetylene lamp into the phonologic laboratory, we consummated our radionic guest on the slab in the dark, and incorporated every energy to the mixing of a pretty solution, the weighing and measuring supervised by West with an almost light-headedness care. Think Progress » Prison Camp Turns Three, WIll Build Psychiatric Wing for Inmates it Drives Crazy
  • The Community Method is not only a means of counterweighing the influence of big states to the advantage of small ones.
  • He is clothed in a white tunic and embroidered cloak or mantle, and he carries a scepter in his left hand; under his seat is a leopard, and his right hand he holds toward a young man, who makes the same gesture, and he is weighing in a large scale assafoetida, which is being let down into the hold of the ship. Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures
  • The girl had left the weighing counter.
  • People waffling over a decision may benefit from paring down the number of details they are weighing and instead selecting one or a few important values to use in basing their decision, says Richard Boyatzis, a professor in organizational behavior, psychology and cognitive science at Case Western Reserve University. Why So Many People Can't Make Decisions
  • Weighing in at 600 pages and combining two volumes in one paperback edition, it also includes around fifty photos and a dozen maps.
  • The secretary considered the question for a second, carefully weighing whether the answer could in any way be deemed treasonable. WALL GAMES
  • The brideman was a still more diminutive specimen of humanity, 29 in. high, weighing 25 lb., and nicknamed "Commodore Nutt. Foreign and Colonial News
  • It will see the return of weighing scales last used as part of school medicals in the late 70s and early 80s.
  • His books are already weighing down the remainder tables.
  • You spent weeks weighing up the relative downsides of terry nappies versus organic hemp disposables. Times, Sunday Times
  • Weighing ten kilograms a pair, I have to make sure the rest of my belongings are kept to an absolute minimum.
  • OWN-ing it: Three of OWN's more recognizable series return to form a new Sunday night block: Visionaries: Inside the Creative Mind (8/7c), featuring mogul Tyler Perry; Ask Oprah's All Stars (9/8c), with Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz and Suze Orman weighing in on "ultimate checklists" for viewers to live their (drumroll) best life; and Our America With Lisa Ling (10/9c), reporting on "Amateur Porn" on the Internet. Matt's Guide to Weekend TV: Walking Dead, Case Histories and More!
  • Calculating a ton as 40 bales weighing 50 pounds each, the price per bale would range from $2.25 to $3.80.
  • The composition, hardware working principle and softwarespecification of the weighing instrument for CX 1 UAV are described.
  • Fish number two, weighing about five pound, was quickly unhooked and released.
  • Mechanically operated beds have been replaced by electronic ones while the trust has purchased new drip stands, heart resuscitators, baby weighing scales, Zimmer frames and walking sticks.
  • Bloat is most common in dogs weighing more than 99 pounds though some small dogs have developed it, experts say, and in dogs described as "deep-chested," meaning the chest width is relatively narrow and the length from the backbone to sternum is relatively long. Pet Talk: Some dogs predisposed to deadly bloating
  • By 1.30 pm only one billion shares had traded in FTSE stocks, with advancers outweighing decliners by three-to-one on the main index.
  • It is a lack of discretion, of class, that will greatly trouble anyone weighing up the vacancy. Times, Sunday Times
  • We are talking about identifying and weighing one grain of sand in a desert. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
  • Thenceforth, the weary travelers were mulcted a dollar per head for the privilege of sleeping on the floor, Jacob Kent weighing the dust and never failing to steal the down-weight. THE MAN WITH THE GASH
  • Eugenia, when able, followed her and had no sooner heard the whole history, than, tenderly embracing her, she said, 'Let not this distress seem so desperate to you, my dearest sister! your own account points out to me how to relieve it, without either betraying our poor Lionel, or further weighing down our already heavily burthened friends.' Camilla
  • Some children depicted even weighing balances in the stalls and gave the merchants a traditional attire for an added touch of originality.
  • By the time she got back to her room, her long black heavy dress was weighing her down and she knew that even though it was midnight she had to be up at six A.M. for breakfast with a politician, then at seven she was to see something called a gyro compass laboratory. The Princess
  • The word ‘carat’ comes from the carob tree whose seed was used for centuries as the standard for weighing precious stones.
  • An angry reaction to teen disorderliness can also be a symptom of other troubles weighing on your mind. The Blessing of a B Minus
  • Indeed, we suspect gold is likely to grab an outsized share of the immediate future, thanks to the substantial pressures weighing on the US Dollar.
  • In 1669 he invented the Roberval balance which is now almost universally used for weighing scales of the balance type.
  • Think about weighing food before cooking it. Times, Sunday Times
  • He said the drugs – wrapped in different colors and labeled with apparently coded phrases and pictures that included Homer Simpson – would be incinerated immediately after the weighing and counting is completed. Mexico Pot Bust: Mexican Authorities Seize 105 Tons Of Marijuana
  • Concrete marble aggregate is one of its key components with 57 white columns, each weighing 29 tonnes, forming the structure of the building.
  • A bumblebee landed on another, weighing down the bloom as it forced its tongue into the nectary, before droning away across the turf. Country diary: Westgate, Weardale
  • Washington - Al Schuler, one of 12 jurors weighing the fate of a 23-year-old charged with killing a homeless man in Maryland, was confused by the word "lividity" and what role it might have played in explaining the circumstances of the victim's beating death. IOL Technology
  • Other songs have ageing rockers dying unmourned and a would-be suicide weighing up the pro's and con's of life.
  • Racing has all this on its conscience right now, and it should be weighing heavy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Weighing only 26 ounces, the chair folds into a small, compact package and can be assembled or disassembled in seconds.
  • If you haven't already noticed, compact excavators - those mini machines weighing no more than about 6-8 tons - are getting bigger.
  • The official minimum riding weight is 10 st over the jumps, while any Flat jockey weighing in at 9st or more will not survive in the trade for long.
  • Stone 15.43 performed ovariotomy on a girl of fifteen, removing a tumor weighing 81 1/2 pounds. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • Ask your tagamet atripla about weighing a non-hormone association of litigation control (such as a condom, diaphragm, spermicide) to lead posttreatment while leading aptivus. Wii-volution
  • Accuse me not of precipitance, my dear Doctor, nor believe me capable of forgetting the wisdom of your suggestions, nor of lightly weighing those evils with which your zeal has encompassed me, though I write at this instant to confess a total contrariety of sentiment, to call back every promise of delay, and to make an unqualified avowal, that the period of caution is past! Camilla
  • The chickadee, for example, weighing just one-third of an ounce, seems a tiny spark of life to throw to the mercy of frigid, 40-m. p. h. winds.
  • And Walter Kirn, weighing in on Wallace's final collection, Oblivion, heaped opprobrium on Wallace's "unedited" feed: David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model
  • As for the vital stats of the bauble, it is bejewelled with 8,000 diamonds weighing 200 karats, set in over a kilo of 18-karat pink gold.
  • These are heady days for one of the most popular jockeys in the weighing room. Times, Sunday Times
  • While it's encouraging that sales activity held up relatively well towards the end of the year, continuing problems with the economy and the ongoing instability in the euro zone seem to be weighing heavily on the U.K. housing market and expectations for the coming months are fairly subdued," said Ian Perry , RICS's housing spokesperson. U.K. Recession Fears Build
  • Now Shed is weighing up whether to go through the saga again. Times, Sunday Times
  • His wife was weighing huckstery with her back to the counter, so that she was not aware of his presence. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
  • It's not so surprising that people chose the grain (weighing four point eight centigrams) as the unit of measure.
  • The fruit of the salal was prepared by the Indians in much the same fashion as the evergreen huckleberry, the berries mashed and dried in large cakes weighing as much as 10 or 15 pounds.
  • Our hearty and large-souled ancestors never dreamed of weighing every miserable coin, or of stinting the measure of their generous wines or foaming ale. The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges
  • Yet, even while he was weighing all the chances, he smiled to himself as he recalled the ineffectual little whistle that had gone out on the whistling wind. On the Firing Line
  • In every human encounter there is a mutual probing, a weighing of the potentialities of the other. TESTIMONIES
  • Racing has all this on its conscience right now, and it should be weighing heavy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Curiosity is a beast of a rover, weighing one ton, measuring ten feet long by seven feet tall (at the top of the mast), and powered by a plutonium-238 fueled electrical generator.
  • In Lyons, whirring machinery can debark a tree weighing more than a ton in seconds, spinning the woody cylinder into slick sheets of fiber that are transformed into plywood. Logging Towns Revive in Quake's Wake
  • Then, by weighing arguments and applying rules of logic, the thesis and antithesis are united into a synthesis.
  • For years it's had the same black bass guitar in the window, surrounded by an array of hash pipes, weighing scales and stolen car radios.
  • Both methods employ the use of permanent moulds, usually similar to those used for die-casting but of different metal, and castings can be produced weighing from a few ounces up to hundredweights by this method.
  • He could feel them weighing down his gut, making the world turn gray and purposeless. T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
  • Moderately well developed black rutile crystals weighing up to about 0.5 kilograms are reported from the Kimberley area and at Coodardy, Western Australia.
  • Several manufacturers have developed feather-light videocassettes, weighing a fraction of a normal videotape.
  • Not weighing the ingredients carefully when making cakes. The Sun
  • As for the vital stats of the bauble, it is bejewelled with 8,000 diamonds weighing 200 karats, set in over a kilo of 18 - karat pink gold.
  • Yesterday a satellite weighing 15 tonnes was successfully placed in orbit.
  • The findings held true even after controlling for risk factors such as smoking, having diabetes or weighing too much.
  • Weighing in at a touch under 700 grams, this unit is one of the large ones…
  • He had never been this way, and few men would dare to go alone, for the big cats hunted in prides of ten or more, each animal weighing as much as two grown men.
  • The two methodologies give opposite results when accounting for the input of allochthonous (produced outside) organic matter to a particular ecosystem: CO2 flux measurement gives negative NEP due to increased CO2 emission from soil to atmosphere, while weighing gives a higher accumulation of organic carbon (C) in the soil. Uncertainties in the understanding of ecological processes and changes driven by climate and UV-B radiation
  • Yet I still found myself trapped in that horrible cycle of starving yourself, binging, vomiting, weighing
  • Wasson said a steel truss weighing about 2 million pounds will be raised atop the northeast and southeast towers on May 20-21.
  • Geoffrey Brock, who translated our edition of Pinocchio, is reading from his new book of poetry, Weighing Light this Saturday at the Barnes and Noble in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Catch-all

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