Sentence examples for there were weighty from inspiring English sources

In 1960, voters seemed riveted by the presidential campaign not because the economy was in the tank (it wasn't) but because there were weighty matters at stake.

PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador — President Rafael Correa said Sunday that while there were weighty arguments for granting asylum to the fugitive American intelligence leaker Edward J. Snowden, it was up to Russia to decide what happens to him.

LONDON — Barack Obama knew there were weighty expectations for his speech in Cairo on Thursday–one disseminated via live streaming video on Facebook, Twitter and Egyptian state television to make sure it reached as many people as possible.

LONDON — Barack Obama knew there were weighty expectations for his speech in Cairo on Thursday–one disseminated via live streaming video on Facebook, Twitter and Egyptian state television to make sure it reached as many of the masses as possible.

Although Mr Piro ascribes bankers' reluctance to the distractions of Christmas and preparations for the euro, there were weightier reasons for it.

Yet there are weighty arguments for not making inheritable changes to the human genome.

There are weighty questions to discuss but serious arguments about foreign policy are a poor fit with a general-election campaign.

"There are weighty considerations involved in changing Roe v. Wade, very weighty considerations in modifying that principle and a woman's right to choose," Mr. Specter said.

It's a light proposal but there are weighty ideas behind it, not least that the cake is emblematic of a long gone, or slowly crumbled, era given that it was invented to celebrate the marriage of Queen Victoria's granddaughter to Prince Louis of Battenburg in 1884.

Yes, there are weighty sociopolitical themes to be teased out of the story's tale of exile and forgetfulness, reward and banishment, but the dominant tone is one of painful tenderness – of the rapturous, bittersweet enchantment with nature that has underwritten so much of Studio Ghibli's output.

There is weighty stuff at stake here, friends.