The last two factors carry special weight.

Trailing all the way here.

It retains enormous strategic weight.

My heart is heavy because of my father's death.

The cab stopped, and I pulled my body from it feeling each ounce of weight as I walked to the elevator.

The families of the victims were understandably still in shock when the Mission met with them.

The cab stopped, and I pulled my body from it feeling each ounce of weight as I walked to the elevator.

(Burundi is an aid dependent country, so donors have considerable sway in influencing its rulers' behavior.)

So I don't just have the sight of the people in front of me and the sound of my voice and the weight of my shoes against the floor, but they occur to me as part of one single great conscious field that stretches forward and backward.

And it is the United Nations alone which, as a universal body, can bring the full weight of the international community to bear on specific critical issues.

Through the creation of an informal Working Group it was possible to focus the discussion on the core of the problem and to provide all Member States with an opportunity to present their views.

I had a conversation with one of the investment bankers who, at the time when you basically sold Virgin Records and invested heavily in Virgin Atlantic, and his view was that you were trading, you know, the world's fourth biggest record company for the twenty fifth biggest airline and that you were out of your mind.

Moreover, no single state can weigh in on international negotiations and offer solutions to economic rivalries or trade issues that threaten to degenerate into political clashes.

In practical terms, this would mean ensuring that States that carry considerable weight in international political and economic life for example, Germany and Japan as well as other countries that are influential in regional or global terms, could assume the responsibility of permanent status in the Council.

At their recently concluded fifth ordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union in Sirte, in the great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, African heads of State and Government resolved to throw the weight of their political support behind the current efforts of the international community to achieve that objective.

I had a conversation with one of the investment bankers who, at the time when you basically sold Virgin Records and invested heavily in Virgin Atlantic, and his view was that you were trading, you know, the world's fourth biggest record company for the twenty fifth biggest airline and that you were out of your mind.