legal weight

基本解释

High-profile public inquiries punch far above their legal weight: they often lead to resignations.
高调的公开调查所产生的效果远大于其实际效果（法律效力？）：它们通常会导致相关人员的辞职。
A London judge said yes, ruling this week that environmentalism should carry the same legal weight as religion under Britain's employment laws.
一位伦敦法官作出了肯定的回答，本周判定环保主义应该与个人信仰一样，在劳动法中享有同等重要的地位。
A partnership without a written agreement carries no legal weight.
没有书面协议的合作没有分量。

The Palestinians know that without US support, their initiative will fail to gain Security Council support and therefore have no legal weight.
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War Crimes Tribunal has given legal weight to this reprobation.
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Since General Assembly resolutions have no legal weight and Security Council resolutions do carry weight, Mitchell's policy represents the most anti-Israel policy ever raised by a senior US official.
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