Institutional Shareholder Services, with plenty of throw weight to move big investors, initially backed Esmark.
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.
They illustrate her wide-ranging interests (from e-commerce to wireless electricity), as well as her throw weight in Silicon Valley (not everyone gets to co-invest with Andreessen Horowitz or to back Jack Dorsey).
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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.
But the real question is how much weight these companies will throw behind it.
The Liberal Democrats said they will throw their weight behind calls for the project to be redesigned.
"I would urge him to throw his weight behind whoever the Democratic Party puts up, " Barnett said.
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.
It is no longer missile throw-weight but economic weight that guarantees a hearing.
But Mugabe refuses to set a date for his own exit, or to throw his weight clearly behind a successor.
The World Bank needs to throw its weight behind the redistributive policies required to achieve economic growth and greater equity.
If the president and Congressional leaders really want tax reform, they should propose tax reform and throw their weight behind it.
The ancient scratches depict a conversation about whether the computer industry should throw its weight behind CES or seek some other alternative.
That obviously disappointed some immigrant rights advocates who were hoping he'd throw his weight behind a comprehensive bill that would include legalization.
On the other hand, you have politicians deciding that they're going to throw their weight behind and de facto say that this existed.
People want to contribute to the larger good and more people are ready and willing to throw their weight behind a meaningful cause.
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Scottish National Party Councillor Ken Lyall is to put forward a proposal asking the council to throw its weight behind a tax campaign.
Lowe's ended its ESOP to throw more weight behind its 401(k).
Partly as a result, the Kurds have until now failed to respond to pleas from other rebel groups to throw their weight behind the uprising.
And some of his supporters still hanker after the "star quality" they believe he brought to the party, even as they throw their weight behind Ed.
When movie maker Warner Bros. said it would throw its weight behind Sony's format for storing high definition movies, Blu-Ray, Sony executives likely popped a few corks.
Three years ago, he co-signed a letter to the then president, Bill Clinton, calling on him to throw his weight wholeheartedly into an effort to topple Saddam Hussein.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan appealed to the summit to throw its weight behind the peace initiative and urged the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to renounce violence.
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