Sentence examples for Pulling our weight from inspiring English sources

"We have to make sure we are all pulling our weight to make the song sing, to knit the policies together that are there.

If nothing else, the "Mooching Working Mother" quandary inspired a whole bunch of us — me included — to consider whether we were properly pulling our weight in our parenting villages.

But the band's noisy-melodic signature sound only really came to be with a string of EPs from 2000's Against the Tide through to 2003's Pulling Our Weight, each of them self-produced – like all of the Radio Dept's music to date – by Duncanson and Larsson at their home studio.

We're the world's eighth biggest economy with the fourth biggest defence budget, so certainly we're pulling our weight on that," he said.

With the exception of Thomas, we were less than successful in pulling our weight though we did end up with 6 total, perfect for dinner.

If, for example, we have a sense that our boss thinks we aren't pulling our weight, we might respond positively about having just gotten off the phone with a client when questioned, all the while failing to note the client was calling about a missed deadline.

But as we are there, we will pull our weight.

We will not win friends and influence  in Europe if we refuse to pull our weight".

We intend to maintain and, where possible, to improve our conventional forces so as to pull our weight in the alliance.

"We are all expected, as members of a very tight-knit team, to pull our weight and offer ideas and insights into the process, pairings and possible outcomes," McIlroy says.

Gibraltar is a place where all of us have to pull our weight; we all have to do what we can and I wanted to do what I could in politics.