How To Use Bear up In A Sentence
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Maggy sat at her work in her great white cap with its quantity of opaque frilling hiding what profile she had (she had none to spare), and her serviceable eye brought to bear upon her occupation, on the window side of the room.
Little Dorrit
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Perhaps his companions in tribulation insulted over him, because he had often been disappointed of a cure; therefore Christ took him for his patient: it is his honour to side with the weakest, and bear up those whom he sees run down.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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This old bridge can hardly bear up against the force of torrents.
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I want to make it quite clear that I shall never tolerate any kind of jobbery, nepotism or any influence directly or indirectly brought to bear upon me.
Bloggers.Pakistan
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We must bring all our energies to bear upon the task.
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Thankfully, all hands are steady enough to bear up under the scrutiny and they manage to avoid any true calamity, although moments do arise when you may find yourself longing for the introduction of a stray sousaphone or two.
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The old bridge can hardly bear up its own weight now.
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This ship will bear up to Havana.
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The sound can be modified accordingly as the strokes of each bow bear upon the callosity, which is itself serrated or wrinkled, or on one of the four smooth radiating nervures.
Social Life in the Insect World
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I wish that someone had brought $56 billion to bear upon my life … but the day President Kennedy was buried, which was a no school day for me, my brother and I shovelled stuff out of a local farmer's septic tank with a shovel for 75 cents per hour for the two of us.
Time to follow Fields' example and quit Afghanistan | Pratap Chatterjee
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It's sur - prising that she can bear up with such an affliction.
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We have in our hands also, newly lit, newly trimmed, lustrous with the genius of our own time, that very lamp with which we are instructed to make this inquiry, that very light which we are told we must bring to bear upon the obscurities of these documents, that very light in which we are told, we must unroll them; for they come to us, as the interpreter takes pains to tell us, with an 'infolded' science in them.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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This in no way absolves those who would pervert that power for personal gain, nor does it excuse the outright blackmail-type pressures that have been brought to bear upon many of us to accede.
Randall Amster: Occupy Ourselves
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In what follows, I first make out a brief account of the working of apophatic theology and then pursue some suggestions as to ways in which an apophatic strategy might be brought to bear upon what we say about judgment.
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In the morning we set our foresail, meaning to bear up to the northward, standing off and on to keep away from the current, which otherwise would have set us to the south, away from, all known land.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
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It is particularly difficult to bear up against the midsummer heat in Wuhan.
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Their effect was to compound the difficulty the liberal leadership had in bringing pressure for reform to bear upon the regime.
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However, as a necessary precursor to that analysis four caveats, or warnings, are signaled which bear upon the degree of confidence that should, and should not, be placed in strategic futurology.
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Their effect was to compound the difficulty the liberal leadership had in bringing pressure for reform to bear upon the regime.
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Tracing the musical genealogy of any given nationalistic genre is no easy task, particularly when there are many influences brought to bear upon it.
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And when the resident English bring the batteries of English political action to bear upon any of the bulwarks erected to protect the natives against their encroachments, the executive, with their real but faint velleities of something better, generally find it safer to their parliamentary interest, and at any rate less troublesome, to give up the disputed position than to defend it.
Representative Government
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Their effect was to compound the difficulty the liberal leadership had in bringing pressure for reform to bear upon the regime.
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The Kingsbridge butcher and his apprentice stepped out of the crowd and began to cut the bear up for its meat: Tom supposed they had agreed on a price with the bearward in advance.
The Pillars of the Earth
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Some of the matters I have already adumbrated seem to me to bear upon that.
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The free-flowing disregard for sentence boundaries is very pronounced here, but this of course does not mean the passage lacks all structure or does not bear up under analysis.
Kerouac the Writer
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The captain gave orders to bear up.
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The structural grillages may bear upon load cells equipped to signal the build-up of sludge on the interior of the liner.
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All this means that certainly the British have something to say in Siamese politics and they have the means to bring strong pressure to bear upon the Siamese.
Indo-China and the Japanese
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She won't bear up her boyfriend.
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Author Nigel Rees brings to bear upon the strange and sometimes surprising world of the epitaph his formidable skills as an ‘archaeologist’ of the sources of quotation and phrases: each epitaph is explained and located, and its source and context described as fully as possible.
Archive 2005-12-01
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She won't bear up her boyfriend.
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Tell them to bear up to one another.
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Tell them to bear up to one another.
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It raises the question of whether the full rigour of the penalty points system will be brought to bear upon speeding civilian ministerial drivers.
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Share your thought with the class - if, ha ha, it will bear up to the glaring light of day.
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He sent out his summons to the “thirteen governors of the Zapotecs and Chontales” to come to his aid, and the insurrection threatened to assume formidable proportions, prevented only by bringing to bear upon the natives the whole power of the Roman Church through the Bishop of
Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History
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Tell them to bear up to one another.
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It's sur - prising that she can bear up with such an affliction.
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Suddenly her main-topsail went, yard and all, in a terrific squall; she had to bear up under bare poles, and disappeared.
Falk, by Joseph Conrad
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And if findings from the United States bear up, fixing knee alignment, say with podiatry, could become a major industry.
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It is our hope, with this issue, to demonstrate that scholars working in what might be termed premodern periods [medievalists, but also early modernists] have much expertise to bring to bear upon the question of the post/human, in both its material and theoretical manifestations, and also in its implications for a future that could never be entirely free of a past that, in some ways, was more capacious and theoretically provocative in its post/humanisms and post/humanist thought than we generally allow.
In the Middle