These are weighty questions.

An Israeli Syrian peace is a weighty strategic necessity for Israel, too.

Causing suffering to innocent beings without an extremely weighty reason for doing so is wrong.

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

But the dynamic of all reform is clinched when even weighty arguments succumb to the urgency of change.

In politics this can be dangerous, because it encourages basing decisions, no matter how weighty, on whatever popular opinion momentarily prevails.

The following is an interview that touches on weighty issues including male chauvinism and racism, but also dives into one woman s unfaltering passion for her profession.

Even the New York Times has been charmed by this weighty tome. The Australian National Dictionary's two volumes are 4.54 kilos (10 lbs) and contain 1,864 pages.

But the original Bretton Woods framework was not built in a day indeed, the 1944 conference was preceded by two and a half years of preparatory negotiations, which is probably the minimum needed to decide such weighty issues.

But the original Bretton Woods framework was not built in a day indeed, the 1944 conference was preceded by two and a half years of preparatory negotiations, which is probably the minimum needed to decide such weighty issues. The recent G 20 summit occurred with virtually no real preliminary work.

So we know all about what folks are eating for dinner and what their Carnival costumes looked like, but the serious discussions are more difficult to find, and even when Trinidadians do share their opinions on weighty issues, they tend to do it in the perceived safety of the virtual world usually, on someone's private Facebook wall.