Sentence examples for Put some weight behind from inspiring English sources

Jazz singing is for fun, not for carving statements in stone, although she put some weight behind her duet with the bassist Ed Howard on " 'Round Midnight".

To put some weight behind its claims of unmatched security, in April last year Tresorit offered a $25,000 bounty to any individual capable of breaking into its service.

Johnson & Johnson, of BAND-AID and Tylenol (and about half the inventory at your local drugstore) fame, is teaming up with Shenzhen-based accelerator and hardware investor HAX to put some weight behind health startups.

At the behest of the Association of Real Neapolitan Pizza, a group with 2,500 members worldwide, lawmakers and officials of the administration of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi recently acted to put some political weight behind an ancient dish made with green, red and white ingredients, the colors of the Italian flag.

Rather, they said, the leadership wants him to put his weight behind some amendments, not yet specified, to change it.

The two have put their weight behind some fascinating work, from the bristling dance masks by John Goba of Sierra Leone to the vivid narrative paintings by Tishibumba Kanda Matulu of Congo, the gifted visual chronicler of Lumumba's rise and fall, who is also in the P.S. 1 show.

Even more improbably, the administration has put its weight behind enacting a federal shield law that would offer some protection for the confidentiality of reporters' sources.

Brook put his weight behind the dead ball.

In response Germany, the euro area's reluctant paymaster, put its weight behind another initiative.

She is disappointed that Obama didn't put his weight behind her bill now.

Because both the White House and Congress have failed to put their weight behind reform.