bear heavily
Example Sentences
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Any major war . . . must bear heavily on them during its continuance and also for generations to come.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
This will bear heavily on the quality of the President's appointments and his ability to mold his people into an effective Administration.
From Time Magazine Archive
But we shall find later, from the fact that the acid does not bite, that we did not bear heavily enough on the needle.
From A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne
Cases, in which hope and fear are brought into fierce struggle with each other, are those which are the worst to support and which bear heavily on the fortitude even of strongest minds.
From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. by Thomas De Quincey
