carry weight

What you and I think doesn't carry much weight around here.

I'm not sure that would carry enough weight in Washington.

But that view seemed to carry little weight with the friends of the dead man.

It didn't carry enough weight for him to let them go.

"He should be able to carry his own weight from now on."

They've all made it in the world and carry their own weight.

Indeed, the man standing before him seemed to carry the weight of his years.

But I wasn't sure that it would carry enough weight in itself.

He was a man who spoke little, but each word carried weight with the' president.

Some of these factors carry less weight than others do.