bear heavily

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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.

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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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She was arbitrary, but tolerant; and if her reign was a despotism, it was a despotism of that broad type which deals with the sources of things, and does not bear heavily upon individuals.

From A Short History of Russia by Parmele, Mary Platt

On the other hand, heteromorphoses bear heavily against the doctrine of determinants.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar