American officials vetoed Mr. Koch-Weser partly on the grounds that, in their view, he lacked sufficient international stature to run the I.M.F., which provides emergency financing to developing and distressed countries.
Users of a small stature often found this difficult to achieve, as they did not have the sufficient height required to pull the body up far enough to cock the weapon; it was also difficult to do when lying in a prone position, as was often the case when using the weapon in action.
Mr. Fleming and Mr. Kim "are good competent guys, but they are young compared to their Wall Street peers," said a former Merrill executive who knows both men and who also questioned whether they yet had sufficient experience and stature to run such a significant business.
They are generally officials who have held other elective offices for a number of years who, because of their political gravitas, are thought to have sufficient heft and stature to enter the Council as a freshman member and soar to its top leadership.
The general attitude, present throughout Łukasiewicz's treatment, is that Aristotle's work is of sufficient precision and stature to warrant and withstand exposition using the most rigorous modern logical methods and concepts.
