bringing to bear

Example Sentences

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The Easterbook approach is certainly open to question—teaching, even in a public high school, involves bringing to bear informed expertise of the kind that academic freedom under the First Amendment arguably should protect.

From Slate • Jul. 1, 2022

KBR has toggled cannily between leveraging personal ties to the government and, when necessary, bringing to bear the impersonal might of expensive legal teams.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2022

The weapons he’s now bringing to bear, including executive orders and the U.S. military, were already well prepared for him.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2018

Furthermore, our more questing artists increasingly assume the role of healers contending with an ailing Earth, collectively sickened psyches and fractured societies, bringing to bear a myriad of unexpected skills.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2018

Without delay he set about the difficult and important work that lay before him, bringing to bear upon the details, that sound judgment, gentlemanly bearing and ready zeal, which have long characterized the man.

From The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself by Peters, de Witt C.