How To Use Bear upon In A Sentence
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We must bring all our energies to bear upon the task.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Some of the matters I have already adumbrated seem to me to bear upon that.
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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 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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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The structural grillages may bear upon load cells equipped to signal the build-up of sludge on the interior of the liner.