Sentence examples for carried weight from inspiring English sources

The promise to the German officials carried weight.

should have done more to insure that its judgment carried weight.

Her interventions carried weight because she was so highly respected and considered.

They carried weight because they were informed less by anger than disappointment.

Its walls are covered with old photographs of customers whose names once carried weight.

There have been instances, however, when resolutions stating the views of Congress have indeed carried weight.

Although he preached against the use of force in his church, his acidic words carried weight.

But for Ifeajuna, the hateful verdict of that seething mob carried weight down the years.

Gorky's self-taught erudition and aggressive principles, however exasperating, carried weight in the small world of New York modern artists.

Yet, while not stiflingly academic, in academic quarters on both sides of the Atlantic, the TLS carried weight.

Crittendon's observations carried weight because he represented a government authority and because reporters liked and trusted him.