This is a moment of grave danger for the people of Syria, a moment of truth for democratic nations to live up to their values, and a weighty test of the international community.
Even if evolutionary theory could explain how behaviors came to be considered right or wrong on prudential grounds, it fails to provide a bridge capable of supporting the weighty transition to genuine moral values.
The notion of personal utility is not unequivocal: it refers to different kinds of values, some more weighty than others.
The popular culture in America today -- as reflected in our various media -- no longer has the time, attention span, or energy to devote to weighty and deep issues such as values.
Second, it is not at all clear that free speech is so presumptively weighty that it nearly always trumps other values.
It would rather be correct to desist from estimating specific emission values (or emission intensities, as the FAO report terms them) than to suppress weighty baseline scenarios, because they are complex and difficult to quantify.
A lifetime position on the federal bench is far too weighty a responsibility to entrust to someone whose past actions are inconsistent with our nation's fundamental values of fairness, equality and freedom for all".
These weren't weighty tomes.
