With sublime indifference to the weighty matter at hand, he reasons: "I have been drinking all night.
Among other things, it is a story about illness, death and family breakdown.Yet these weighty matters are dealt with coolly and briskly.
Given the need for the fullest public debate, all credit to the Observer for allowing you and me to get these weighty matters off our chests.
As for Mr. Dole, "One of the weighty matters on his mind was when he would walk out from the lectern," said Nelson Warfield, his press secretary.
The delegates had been debating the manner of electing a President, wrangling over the weighty matters of the Electoral College and proportionate representation.
"This is an incredibly weighty matter," the official said.
In English, we would translate roughly, "all the more so": If a small matter like X requires our attention, then how much more so does this apply to Y, a more weighty matter.
After the first session they were assigned randomly to either a control group, which remained awake, or a nap group, which had 100 minutes of monitored sleep.In this section Fired up Sleepy heads Signs of life A weighty matter ReprintsThose who remained awake throughout the day became worse at learning.
Also, recent searches for extrasolar planets have concluded that planets are not rare.In this section Fired up Sleepy heads Signs of life A weighty matter Reprints Related items Correction: Alien lifeMar 4th 2010At the AAAS, Dr Drake reflected on his search for alien signals.
These give some idea of a sample's age.In this section Fired up Sleepy heads Signs of life A weighty matter ReprintsThe result is a profile that is often characteristic of a particular type of reactor or centrifuge, and sometimes of an individual machine and can also indicate how long ago the processing took place.
