Some of that precious land--quite a lot of it, in fact--is sinking under its own weight.
Instead of dragging down its parent company, Chrysler is starting to pull its own weight.
If it does become successful, I can predict it will fall under its own weight.
Nothing at all that is strong enough to not break simply under its own weight.
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Embassytown, that outpost of the colonial power of Bremen, is starting to crumble under its own weight.
The market will fall under its own weight until the Federal Reserve hints at their next quantitative easing steps.
The infinite amount of leverage ensures that it will eventually collapse under its own weight once the chain is broken.
But over time, Comdex became so broad, so over-crowded and so unwieldy that it basically collapsed under its own weight.
Bands this heavily populated sometimes face a tendency to pack on the layers until an album collapses under its own weight.
Last year, she reported that her group had synthesised a nanofibre material capable of storing 65% of its own weight of hydrogen.
Estonia, a small country with a population of 1.3 million people, punches above its own weight when it comes to advancements in tech.
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Neodymium magnets are the strongest permanent magnets known, and a neodymium magnet of a few grams can lift a thousand times its own weight.
Samat stared at the ash, waiting for it to buckle under its own weight and fall so they could get on with the execution.
The tablet leans up against the lip -- not the most secure fit, with the slate mostly being held in place by its own weight.
However, continuing to look the other way is no panacea either, as the real estate market is already in the process of collapsing under its own weight.
The younger brother left the yard, passing through a gateway in which a gate was propped open by its own weight where a hinge had given way.
It soaks up its own weight in sweat, which quickly converts to ice, and the resulting solid frost armor is worse than useless when it comes to insulation.
By reducing graphene oxide and then applying a hydrothermal molding procedure, the scientists were able to fabricate a sponge-like structure, which can absorb upto 86 times its own weight.
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Since all forms of fractional-reserve lending are dependent on the perpetual creation of more and more credit that the system eventually can no longer sustain, it eventually collapses under its own weight.
Seung Mi Lee of South Korea's Kunsan University and her team announced a nanotube material at the conference that, they claimed, could store more than 14% of its own weight of hydrogen.
Although I always managed to find an English equivalent for each French word I translated, the whole thing seemed to crumble under its own weight when I attempted to reunite its constituent parts.
Well, the good news is that the proposal, which ran counter not only to common sense but counter to the views of the international counterpart of FASB, has apparently collapsed of its own weight.
But sometimes this hatred broke like a wave, collapsing under its own weight, and before it would begin to well up again she suddenly felt nothing but pure compassion for him, a kindness and forgiveness that almost broke her heart.
In absorption mode, the cloth can hold 340 percent of its own weight -- compared to just 18 percent without the polymer's aid -- and when it warms up, it releases the collected moisture as clean and pure potable water.
And while deadwood faculty are by no means the norm in higher education (the majority of faculty surely pulls its own weight), the mere inability to remove unproductive faculty is economically inefficient for colleges and unjust to the students paying tuition and forced to sit through classes with professors who view them as a nuisance.
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Even defenders of the law agree with this premise: PPACA would positively collapse under its own financial weight if the mandate was stricken.
Even at 30mph, a child can be thrown forward with a potentially lethal force of 30 to 60 times its own body weight.
The AIRarm prototype is essentially a Packbot whose metal arm's been replaced with an inflatable version able to lift four times its own half-pound weight.
The problem is that big-government conservatism is already stumbling under the weight of its own contradictions.
Will India's civil society-led campaign against corruption implode under the weight of its own contradictions?
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