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    bear upon


    1. 22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness


    2. an electric current brought to bear upon the anu retards its motions When


    3. confines his attention to those things which bear upon his particular work, and


    4. the beneficent influence which the man may intentionally bring to bear upon


    5. bear upon the child who is to be born, so that he may have a really favourable


    6. Understandably, all this would have ensured that the systemic pulls and pressures came to bear upon the onamic growth


    7. Strong pressure from many sides was brought to bear upon Herod before he consented to grant this permission, and he well knew that Jesus could not expect a fair trial before his bitter enemies at Jerusalem


    8. I see the mission as tracking and preparing to neutralize all strategic nuclear weapons that could be brought to bear upon us, including from within by rogue forces under private control


    9. He whirled toward the man and brought his phasor to bear upon the man’s chest, but instead of pulling the trigger knowing that there was a reason this man was here, he said


    10. The more energy you can bring to bear upon your desire, the faster you’ll start seeing results

    11. This brings pressure to bear upon the interpersonal barrier


    12. Bringing the mind to bear upon the required


    13. The reason that I pulled his head down was to prevent him having the space to swing his arm and bring his pistol to bear upon me


    14. that enables them to bring their power to bear upon the right spot


    15. God-given powers and forces are undeveloped and he inevitably brings poor judgment to bear upon all


    16. "That was a rare point, Sydney, that you brought to bear upon the identification


    17. If you please, committing you in no way, representing you in no way, I will undertake to correct my advice by the exercise of a little new observation and judgment expressly brought to bear upon it


    18. A disturbed and doleful mind he brought to bear upon them, and slowly and heavily the day lagged on with him


    19. Let it not be seen that thou art (even if perchance thou art, which I do not believe) covetous, a follower of women, or a glutton; for when the people and those that have dealings with thee become aware of thy special weakness they will bring their batteries to bear upon thee in that quarter, till they have brought thee down to the depths of perdition


    20. He brings, not sentiment, but philosophy to bear upon a question which both in ancient and modern times has been chiefly regarded in the light of custom or feeling

    21. The influences which we can bring to bear upon this question are chiefly indirect


    22. He brings the light of Plato to bear upon the miserable state of his own country


    23. By giving me this burning torture to bear upon my breast! By sending yonder dark and terrible old man, to keep the torture always at red-heat! By bringing me hither, to die this death of


    24. hear some more about the objects which do seem to you to bear upon the case


    25. With your assent I will put one or two of these papers in my pocket, in case they should bear upon our future inquiry


    26. Even in this field, therefore, the analyst must take into account whatever influences may adversely govern the market price, as well as those which bear upon the basic safety of the issue


    27. If we try to bring a fresh and critical viewpoint to bear upon this subject, we shall find that weighty objections may be leveled against the accepted dividend policy of American corporations


    28. The intelligent investor will pay attention to the advice and recommendations received from investment banking houses, especially those known by him to have an excellent reputation; but he will be sure to bring sound and independent judgment to bear upon these suggestions—either his own, if he is competent, or that of some other type of adviser


    29. Fortunately for the typical investor, it is by no means necessary for his success that he bring these qualities to bear upon his program—provided he limits his ambition to his capacity and confines his activities within the safe and narrow path of standard, defensive investment


    30. However pure and sincere we may be, we all bear upon our candor the crack of the little, innocent lie

    31. "However, let us hear some more about the objects which do seem to you to bear upon the case


    32. With your assent, I will put one or two of these papers in my pocket, in case they should bear upon our future inquiry


    33. She was imprisoned by Tal Hajus, and every effort, including the most horrible and shameful torture, was brought to bear upon her to wring from her lips the name of my father; but she remained steadfast and loyal, dying at last amidst the laughter of Tal Hajus and his chieftains during some awful torture she was undergoing


    34. Il ne se nourrissait avec rien would mean 'he did not nourish himself with anything,' the introduction of ne bringing the negation to bear upon the verb


    35. If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its concentred cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far from having lost his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did now possess a thousand fold more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon any one reasonable object


    36. During that long interval Starbuck would ever be apt to fall into open relapses of rebellion against his captain's leadership, unless some ordinary, prudential, circumstantial influences were brought to bear upon him


    37. In vain handspikes and crows were brought to bear upon the immovable fluke-chains, to pry them adrift from the timberheads; and so low had the whale now settled that the submerged ends could not be at all approached, while every moment whole tons of ponderosity seemed added to the sinking bulk, and the ship seemed on the point of going over


    38. She runs, the bear upon her trail,


    39. “Who, in the name of what Law, would think of disputing my full personal right over the fortnight of life left to me? What jurisdiction can be brought to bear upon the case? Who would wish me, not only to be sentenced, but to endure the sentence to the end? Surely there exists no man who would wish such a thing—why should anyone desire it? For the sake of morality? Well, I can understand that if I were to make an attempt upon my own life while in the enjoyment of full health and vigour—my life which might have been ‘useful,’ etc


    40. And this is because they are laboring under an error similar to that of the clergy, in believing that they possess such infallible methods of studying their subject that, if they but bring their so-called scientific methods to bear upon the subject under consideration, there can be no doubt as to the accuracy of their conclusion

    41. The men of the masses for the most part do not know their Orthodox, state faith, to which they are supposed to be so loyal, and when they come to know it, they immediately give it up and become rationalists, that is, accept a faith which it is impossible to attack or to defend; on their Tsar they, in spite of the constant and persistent influences brought to bear upon them, look as upon all the powers of violence, if not with condemnation, at least with absolute indifference; but their country, if by that we do not mean their village or township, they do not know at all, or, if they do, they do not distinguish it from any other countries, so that, as Russian colonists used to go to Austria and to Turkey, they now with just as much indifference settle in Russia, outside of Russia, in Turkey or in China


    42. A man's freedom does not consist in a faculty of acting independently of his environment and the various influences it brings to bear upon his life, but in his power to become, through recognizing and professing the truth that has been revealed to him, a free and willing laborer at the eternal and infinite work performed by God and his universe; or, in shutting his eyes to truth, to become a slave and be forced against his will into a way in which he is loath to go


    43. But when once these suggestions are brought to bear upon those individuals who in New England have naturally the confidence of their countrymen, there is no power in these calumnies


    44. Will the gentleman say she values the principles of the Orders in Council, as she did the sovereignty of her colonies? What will the gentleman discover, by examining the history of the period he referred to? England, at that time, when France, Spain, Holland, and the United States, were opposed to her, when the armed neutrality in the north of Europe assailed her, when all these brought the principle of embargo to bear upon her, was nearer ruin than she ever was before or since


    45. We are able to bring a calm, unbiased scrutiny to bear upon it, to fully analyze it


    46. " Indeed, it has been most roundly asserted, and by many it is believed, that the British claim was made for the first time after our war; that it originated in views hostile to our commerce and maritime rights; and that in practice it is only brought to bear upon us


    47. Sore pressure is brought to bear upon him, and he pays some sort of homage at an idol's shrine


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