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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.
Even in respect of dead weight, a lot is pure estimate.
Our success in getting agreement for a top-up payment for steers and heifers and a dead weight option has been greatly appreciated by the industry.
Nobody is trying to push the balance between live and dead weight in one direction or the other, but the arrangements will do precisely that.
The relationship between dead weight and live weight is indeed important.
About a year ago there was talk of the general purpose oil tanker or ore carrier as being of some 18,000 tons dead weight.
The basis of the distribution of the levy or subsidy is to be live weight or dead weight as the case may be.
The present system is breaking society and all this dead weight of misery is continuing more and more.
