Like ballast, the dead weight of your loss balances, restrains, holds you to measured meter.
The past had become a dead weight that held society back; it shackled people's minds and stifled their sense of patriotism.
That is why dead weight is such a problem.
That would be enormously expensive and would carry a heavy dead weight cost.
We should want to know if the industry is carrying more dead weight than is reasonable for it to do.
I believe that to-day it is 41 million tons dead weight.
This is carried out by side-scan sonar and allows for the maximum draught of ships of 480,000 tons dead weight.
They are being a dead weight upon those who are trying to solve the difficult problems.
