Sentence examples for collective weight of from inspiring English sources

It's the collective weight of all of these things that at some point provokes change.

He added: "We need the collective weight of the EU when you are dealing with Russian aggression or terrorism.

Instead, Bankia sank under the collective weight of bad property loans and required 18 billion euros of the European rescue money to keep it afloat.

At 5 a.m., the stagehands arrived outside the prison to set up a platform solid enough to bear the collective weight of many politicians and speakers in the coming hours.

Their mantelpieces might creak under the collective weight of literary gongs but, according to one leading academic, leading contemporary British authors such as Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes are unworthy of the accolades they receive.

The collective weight of a population makes possible our faith in the public world as something larger and more enduring and more dignified than any messy individual can be in private.

They will sometimes use their collective weight to obstruct U.S. and European plans.

The UK, like many other countries is experiencing a massive growth in the collective weight gain of its population.

The next lot were mall builders, who came to be known as the Millstones because they were a collective weight around the neck of the public.

But if the 100 million cattle living in the United States at any given time all stood on a scale simultaneously, their collective weight would far exceed that of the U.S. human population.

Now comfortably north of $3 trillion in collective weight, it's fair to ask why these firms have done so well in recent quarters.