bear heavily
Example Sentences
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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.
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
Any major war . . . must bear heavily on them during its continuance and also for generations to come.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here word was brought that Osbourne had been killed by the Indians, and life began to bear heavily upon the young wife and mother, stranded without means in a strange city.
From The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
They also bear heavily on our coastal downs and more western country, but some kinds of Japanese plums blossom too early for the Stanthorpe district.
From Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson
