1.   But the portfolios that typically define the true party heavyweights, finance minister and foreign minister, have eluded him.

2.   Several senior party officials have defected to Soong, who was himself a party heavyweight.

3.   This innocuous frat-house exuberance escalated into a near-death experience when the boy turned out to be the son of a Communist party heavyweight.

4.   Critics such as party heavyweight Lin Yang-kang blame Lee for provoking China into brandishing its missiles.

5.   On Wednesday, a party heavyweight was grilled in Parliament over allegations he was bribed by a small business cooperative.

6.   The party heavyweights considered likeliest to succeed him mostly laid low Friday, but rumors about the leadership race were already flying.

7.   However, two camps are emerging within Labour around party heavyweights Barak and former interior minister Haim Ramon, a moderate, for the leadership post.

8.   The view was, however, not supported by other young party heavyweights, who feel that holding national elections would tone down the current wrangles in the party.

9.   Meanwhile, two camps are already emerging around party heavyweights Ehud Barak and Haim Ramon.

10.   Party heavyweight Sharad Pawar defended the market reforms at the CWC meeting on Wednesday saying they could not be slowed down, the sources said.