How To Use bear upon In A Sentence
- We must bring all our energies to bear upon the task.
- 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
- Tracing the musical genealogy of any given nationalistic genre is no easy task, particularly when there are many influences brought to bear upon it.
- Their effect was to compound the difficulty the liberal leadership had in bringing pressure for reform to bear upon the regime.
- 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.
- Their effect was to compound the difficulty the liberal leadership had in bringing pressure for reform to bear upon the regime.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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