And weight was lent to it by its appearance just after the government had broken off pay talks with public-sector unions, saying it would give a tiny rise for the next couple of years.
This obscure bureaucracy, then, is lent weight by the manner in which the game overwhelms.
This hypothesis is lent weight by the fact that thorium-225 can easily be produced in the reaction used and would not be separated out by the chemical methods used.
O'Dair's record of this era is lent extra weight and colour by Alfie's own acerbic parallel commentary.
Turkey's growing cultural pride, as it fights to join the European Union, is lending weight to what otherwise could be seen as just an aesthetic change.
But Lyuba Kovaleva is fighting a campaign that has raised grave questions about Mr Noble's judgment, and is lending weight to claims that the Belarusian secret police, the KGB, planted the device, rigged a show trial and tortured confessions out of the two suspects.
So now the party's powerful Propaganda Department is lending its weight to the reformist camp.
The EEF is lending its weight to the more pro-business stance taken by Philip Hammond, the chancellor, who has been championing a softer Brexit in the aftermath of the Conservatives losing their overall majority in the general election last month.
Already, the SEC is lending its weight to cryptocurrencies, giving corporate players peace of mind about not only anti-fraud and anti-theft measures but also the actual stability of any coin they want to invest in.
IPPF is lending some weight to that collective push - in the form of an ambitious target to reach 45 million new users of contraception by 2020.
In a new role as good-will ambassador for the Brazilian oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro, or Petrobras, Pele, who turns 60 next month, is lending the considerable weight of his name to another company with international aspirations.
