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  • For such rights to have not only moral but legal weight,

    My Recycled Soul 2009

  • From Its Blu-ray Drive SINGAPORE -- After falling behind in the game-console race under Blu-ray's weight,

    Sony's PS3 Gets Boost 2008

  • Second, a point which carries considerably more weight,

    The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006

  • He had framed to himself certain opinions, founded no doubt upon the truth of things, but built up to a Babel height; they fell by their own weight,

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • Scarce three strong Greeks could lift its mighty weight,

    The Iliad of Homer 2003

  • They roll down ribs of rocks, an unresisted weight,

    The AEneid Virgil 2002

  • They step carefully over a gushing runnel that has cut all the way through the pavement, only a long step wide but you have to make sure the other side will carry the weight,

    Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

  • When the incision just remains, a sample of the clay around the incision is removed and its weight,

    Chapter 10 1990

  • On that one occasion he tore round the clear ice at breakneck speed, halting her dramatically, by sheer weight,

    The Nest Builder Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

  • The amount by which the solidifying point is lowered is connected with the molecular weight,

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various

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