bear scrutiny
Example Sentences
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“My character is one that will bear scrutiny and has merited the esteem of my officers,” he wrote in a letter to Allan in 1828.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023
Pakistan's Covid statistics also bear scrutiny - a country of 220 million people recorded just 1.5 million cases and 30,000 deaths, a staggeringly low number compared with the devastation in neighbouring India last year.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2022
“Unlike his glitzy Western counterparts, he traveled by bus and lived in cheap hotels,” The Economist magazine said — repeating a myth about Western reporters that does not always bear scrutiny.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2012
Terry's assertion that England can "mix it with anyone football-wise" would not bear scrutiny in a court, where the prosecution would recite their 44 years in the wilderness.
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2010
Little is known of the mechanism of faulting or of the causes that produce it; the majority of the text-book explanations will not bear scrutiny, and there is room for extended observation and research.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
