31.   As the bales start leaving the container on the heads of young porters, Mama Prossy literally throws her weight around to claim the ones she wants.

32.   At the very least he was guilty of callously throwing his weight around.

33.   Babbitt, however, already had his eye on a run for the presidency, and Tully and his colleagues threw their weight behind McCain.

34.   Batouty seemed to be in a mood to throw his weight around.

35.   Both long-term strategic thinkers and conspiracy theorists have voiced concerns that Germany, once together, would not long resist the temptation to eventually throw its weight around again.

36.   A real stock market should develop, and the shareholders, who have invested cash, are likely to throw their weight behind change.

37.   A senior American official indicated that the Bush administration had not thrown its weight behind the British plan.

38.   A year after his visit with Hubble, Einstein threw his weight, along with de Sitter, behind an expanding universe without a cosmological constant.

39.   But critics say the dual investments shows how Microsoft uses its money to throw its weight around.

40.   But Dafoe and Neufeld said Ford does not throw his weight around frivolously.