Sentence examples for use the weight of from inspiring English sources

The prime minister was expected to use the weight of his office to delay court proceedings and to try to undermine the case against him.

Obama says as soon as he is finished speaking, he will sign executive orders to use "the weight of this office": As soon as I'm finished speaking here I will sit at that desk and I will sign a directive giving law enforcement, schools, mental health professionals and the public health community some of the tools they need to help reduce gun violence....

"And this is an example: when there are two people up for a job, one an elected member, the other not, to use the weight of the institution from the president's chair to support a white person over a black person, when we are both equally qualified, to me is the institution using its power to support behaviour that is tantamount to racism".

Analysts said the White House is betting that its tough talk will convince Chinese President Xi Jinping that Trump is willing to use force to shatter the long standoff with Pyongyang, prompting Beijing to use the weight of its trade ties with North Korea to help avoid a huge conflict on its border.

I just wanted, before the election and then before the vote on tax extension, for President Obama to express his opinion, to use the weight of argument and his office to convince Americans about the unfairness and economic folly of the Republican position.

Frame barriers consist of rigid frames holding an impermeable membrane and use the weight of the floodwater itself to hold the barrier in place.

We decided to use the weights of the exemplars that approximate individual frames to derive the state posterior probability estimates.

We use the weights of the linear discriminant function to assign a score to each atom or bond of a compound.

In this overview we focus on those RMFs with sufficient evidence (i.e., adequate and suggestive) to draw a conclusion using the weight-of-evidence approach discussed above.

It is with this question that the movie pulls off an audacious narrative trick in a brilliant central scene between the three principals: like a skilled judo fighter, the movie uses the weight of our expectations against us.

Hiding behind the mask of disinterestedness, Eliot uses the weight of the Aeneid -- with "its fable of exile followed by home founding" -- to bolster his own shaky authority.