But the cumulative weight of everyone's nits can't be ignored.

The cumulative weight of the difficult day, the heat, the humidity, and a growing despair had pressed her down into that dream prison.

The cumulative weight might force Washington to live up to its pledge to liberalize agricultural trade.

After all, the socialist utopias collapsed under the cumulative weight of their internal contradictions.

The cumulative weight of all those new issues may put upward pressure on yields, some traders said.

It was clear from the cumulative weight of these reports that Creed had already arrived.

But it is their cumulative weight that has brought about an unprecedented, and critical, situation.

But in the end, the cumulative weight of it all became too much for Ms. Driver.

Rather it's the cumulative weight of several facts that together tip the scales toward a conclusion.

Perhaps it was the cumulative weight of all those platitudes.