These are the questions, experts say, that can make or break a weight loss plan.

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Nothing at all that is strong enough to not break simply under its own weight.

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The 15-country Southern African Development Community (SADC), which has been trying to break the impasse, does not carry much weight with either side.

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As time passed, my brother's arms seemed to break with the sense of humiliation, not just the weight of the water.

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Thinking back on his early days of break dancing, Drury thought he could make the idea of weight loss through dancing relevant to the public.

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In a party political broadcast filmed at his home the Liberal Democrat leader speaks directly to camera and with real intensity about a decision which he believes has become a weight around his and his party's ankles - the decision to break his word by first signing, then breaking a pledge to vote against increases in student tuition fees.

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If Hon Kai balks at paying the expected JPY 66.9 billion, and finds a way to break or renegotiate the deal (as now seems almost certain), Sharp could collapse under the weight of its debt and depleting capital.

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In the most radical break with the party establishment so far, John Norquist, the mayor of Milwaukee, has thrown his weight behind a scheme that allows poor parents to send their children to private schools (see box).

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