bear heavily
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For the schools to raise tuition fees would bear heavily on the already hard-pressed student, and would do little to close their budget wounds.
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This will bear heavily on the quality of the President's appointments and his ability to mold his people into an effective Administration.
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Any major war . . . must bear heavily on them during its continuance and also for generations to come.
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Most all bear heavily, in fact usually overbear.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association
The coastal tablelands and the more Western Downs grow it well, and the trees, when planted on soil of a rich friable nature, grow to a large size and bear heavily.
From Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson
