Sentence examples for weighty issue the from inspiring English sources

On almost every other weighty issue, the professional classes appear to be better informed than the rest of the population.

Guardian: Darling's £1bn rescue plan for house market Times: Struggling housing market to get £1bn boost A WEIGHTY ISSUE The Sun had fun with its splash this morning, which is about new findings that obesity is having an effect on global warming.

Perhaps if they'd tackled weightier issues the fear factor would have crumbled, since after all, real life is a lot more terrifying than being threatened by some unhinged cheerleader with a chip on her shoulder.

He believes that behind the textual controversy lurks a weighty issue bearing upon the state of democracy and spirituality in the European Union.

The lights have barely dimmed before the weighty issues abound: the nature of evil!

Last Saturday, Earl Kitchener, great-nephew of the famous military commander who never quite worked out that it is rude to point, rose to his feet at the annual general meeting of the Electoral Reform Society to speak on one of the weighty issues of the day.

In his advertisement, Mr. Simmons reminds voters of the weighty issues facing the country, including jobs, taxes and national security.

There's more to this weighty issue than meets the eye, says Judith Mackrell How we made: Vicken Parsons and Antony Gormley on Bed 'The eating part was tedious.

Weighty issues of the day such as the Iraq war and the candidacy of Barack Obama made campus a hopeful place for students, Felder said, and prominent speakers like Shimon Peres and other international statesmen let him become ensconced in studying issues in depth.

Ever since it began, the environmental movement has used the weighty issue of whaling as a Manichean struggle of good and evil.

Both sides acknowledged the weighty issues presented by the case, and the unusual circumstances that had brought the defendant into court.