Their ability to throw weight around can mean higher, return-eating fees that can push up costs for investors, even those who never go near a supermarket.
Conscious of the stakes involved, foreign investors are starting to throw their weight around as well.
In fact, America's overwhelming might carries an obligation not to throw its weight around unnecessarily.
Intel's ability to throw its weight around won it the high-profile Apple account, displacing IBM and Freescale.
This has aroused fears, in France, of a bigger, bolder Germany, readier to throw its weight around.
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Might not a chamber consisting exclusively of life peers be more tempted to throw its weight around?
But in Apple's rebound from its low in 2000, the company has been emboldened to throw its weight around.
Managers like me could throw our weight around with impunity.
The judge is well aware of the controversy she will cause by quickly agreeing to a proposed settlement, which Microsoft's rivals claim will allow the world's biggest software firm to continue to throw its weight around.
But then they started to throw that monopolistic weight around.
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Congratulate the actor for refusing to throw his not inconsiderable weight around.
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But for all the work that it does in its continent, South Africa is almost paranoically careful not to throw its economic and diplomatic weight around or to act out of step with its African partners.
People tend to throw around degrees and acronyms like they really hold a lot of weight in the recruiting world.
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