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Examples
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Pound for pound, the battle between Cablevision and Fox appears to pit a runt against a heavy-weight fighter, analysts say.
An analyst's take on Fox-Cablevision dispute Cecilia Kang 2010
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My best shooting is with a slightly heavy-weight forward rifle.
A Rifle With Feck* 2009
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Obama is a super heavy-weight when it comes to money and organizing.
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We must return to the glory days of the 19th century, when Britain was a heavy-weight economy.
Weighty Economic Ideas Jamie Whyte 2011
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"Angouleme" by Thomas M. Disch feels more like a literary heavy-weight than what we normally associate with a science fiction piece.
REVIEW: The Secret History of Science Fiction edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel 2009
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A light-weight fights with a light-weight; he never fights with a heavy-weight, and foul blows are not allowed.
The Somnambulists 2010
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In any case, the scenario is, we find some heavy-weight (or young dynamo!) candidate, that person then has a negotiation with the President.
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Rush Limbaugh is the undisputed heavy-weight champion of lying and running his mouth trying to incite a riot.
Think Progress » Limbaugh’s ‘Cheap And Disingenuous’ Call For People To Jam Congressional Phonelines 2010
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So, you have to imagine Roland Barthes, an important heavy-weight critic but with a tendency to be a little bit cheeky, looking along his bookcase and thinking about the kind of books he most disapproved of.
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In Parliament, his great rival was Harold Wilson, a heavy-weight debater, light-weight in all other respects.
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