Manage a couple of heavyweights maybe.

Among the sponsors for the events are the usual industry heavyweights Google and Microsoft.

Several European heavyweights, led by Germany and France, said no, despite strong support for the idea from the United States.

In fact, some AKP heavyweights, including Erdoğan s longtime associate, President Abdullah Gül, believe that he badly mismanaged the recent protests.

Political heavyweights in Guangdong still favor a form of development that relies on speed and quantity while ignoring overall environmental quality.

Only the world s political and economic heavyweights, the main industrialized countries that remain by far the biggest consumers of hydrocarbons, can initiate change on a global scale.

Whereas Sarkozy has managed to impose himself on the right without the support of Jacques Chirac, the Socialist heavyweights cannot fully convince themselves to come out behind Royal.

For him and the team that took over after Helmut Kohl s 16 year reign, Germany had become a normal country, no different from other European heavyweights like France or Britain.

As a result of historical suspicion between China, Japan, and Korea, Northeast Asia s economic heavyweights are the world s last remaining regional bloc that still lacks an inter governmental organization of the likes of ASEAN.

The first signal was sent when Ukraine and Georgia were denied the Membership Action Plan (MAP) that they sought. Several European heavyweights, led by Germany and France, said no, despite strong support for the idea from the United States.

It would also mean that we might inadvertently drift into the abysmal trap in which mutual interests and power balances among the military heavyweights would become a commonly accepted basis for international cooperation and stability, unfortunately at the expense of the weak and the vulnerable.