• The first three of these four broad criteria are each given a maximum weight of 30%, and the fourth 10%, to form the index.

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  • Many people had tipped Serbia to be a surprise package in the tournament - a school of thought given further weight after they defeated Germany in their second game.

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  • The call for greater transparency of regulation is given weight by a suggestion that information on the utilities held by regulators should be disclosable unless companies can show that this will cause substantial harm.

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  • Yi Xianrong of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says housing costs, which have been rising fast in many cities in recent years, are not given due weight in the index (food accounts for a third of the index and housing less than 14%).

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  • Each specific variable should be given a quantifiable weight so there are no complaints and bickering at the end of the season.

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  • If you're looking for a product to help with more significant discomfort, over-the-counter pain relievers such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen given in the appropriate dose for a child's weight can take the edge off of teething pain.

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  • Anderson and her co-author are unable to say with any certainty that eating dinner together more often, getting more sleep, and watching less TV will help any given child lose weight, because of the other factors that may contribute to a child's obesity (or that may protect normal-weight children from becoming obese).

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  • My version of your weight to strength is how many calories can I burn in a given 10, 20, or 30 minute time period on my exercise machines.

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  • "Given the great weight of opinion in this House I think the government will have a very severe task indeed in trying of trying to force their legislation through Parliament, " he said.

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  • And a typical line from the instruction that is given to federal courts -- federal juries all across the land: The law makes absolutely no distinction between the weight or value to be given either to direct or circumstantial evidence, nor is a greater degree of certainty required of circumstantial evidence than of direct evidence.

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  • The performance of these vehicles, which is often astounding given their size and weight, owes a lot to small engineering improvements made, in many cases, for other reasons.

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  • Call us wimps, but we like the extra bite at the front of a 450-plus-hp 911 Turbo, given the car's tremendous rear-weight bias.

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