bear on

How To Use bear on In A Sentence

• So much the better if you have a cache of slightly obscure references that you can dispense, especially if these bear only tangential relationship to what you are discussing.
• Can you bring your weight to bear on this? Times, Sunday Times
• The bank will bring pressure to bear on you if you don't pay.
• a philanthropical institution, or an educational enterprise, or a network of agencies and "instrumentalities" to bring to bear on society at large certain ameliorating influences or benignant reforms. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
• The council brought pressure to bear on the landlord to improve his property.
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort.
• Note that the Dennis family has moved out of the district on account of pressure brought to bear on their children, mostly in the schools and some of it from teachers and coaches. clerihew replied to comment from Marion Delgado Freshwater: Yet another student and yet another cross - The Panda's Thumb
• Its two-hinged parabolic laminated arches bear on tapered concrete columns through stainless-steel pins; they carry a secondary purlin structure which bears the double glass skin.
• It seems that this is a difficulty pertaining to our times: there is as yet only one possible choice, and this choice can bear only on two equally extreme methods: either to posit a reality which is entirely permeable to history, and ideologize; or, conversely, to posit a reality which is ultimately impenetrable, irreducible, and, in this case, poetize. Never Neutral
• Other disciplines have been brought to bear on the subject, including archaeology, cartography, and historical geography.