bear heavily
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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.
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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
It, perforce, had to obey or go to prison; either one or the other, for the laws were expressly drafted to bear heavily upon it.
From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus
Although effective in producing revenue, they were imposed without discrimination, and they bear heavily alike both on producer and consumer, checking the industry of the one and swelling unduly the expenditures of the other.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
