31.   That history has deservedly given greater weight to ethnic slurs spoken by American white people directed at American black people.

32.   The disappearance of a powerful common threat, the Soviet Union, has allowed narrower disputes to emerge and given them greater weight.

33.   The dollar has far greater weight in global finance than is indicated simply by the size of the American economy.

34.   The Federal Trade Commission proposed on Monday that antitrust regulators considering a merger give greater weight to cost savings and other efficiencies gained both by companies and consumers.

35.   The New York Times computer factors in strength of schedule and gives greater weight to good, late-season performances.

36.   The role of secret agencies in defending national security, he believed, carried a greater weight.

37.   The scores are derived by assigning different values to different items, with greater weight given to difficult items than easy ones.

38.   Their deeds, both good and bad, carry greater weight than those of the average person.

39.   There was a time when the daily paper, which now has an average of eight pages, had greater weight.

40.   Two years later the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service broadened its own guidelines to give greater weight to women seeking asylum who feared genital mutilation and sexual violence.