Something of a collectors' item for featuring Johnny Marr on trademark chiming guitar and Kirsty MacColl on backing vocals, it's a shimmering, upbeat Afropop dance song bearing one of Byrne's most laugh-out-loud, funny-acerbic lyrics.
But this has no bearing on nutrition.
Moreover, agreements bearing on nuclear arms have traditionally been treaties.
Franklin Roosevelt famously said on taking office in 1933, 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself.' Most of us have unreasoning fears which creep unwanted into the mind, and bring a shudder; mine are about overwhelming torrents of muddy water, at seeing and hearing a towering wall of water bearing down on me; something moving so fast that there is no chance of escape.
Surely rarity has no bearing on how good something tastes.
These were the things that went through his mind as he sensed something bearing down on him from behind.
Not so weighty or full of inertia; not so resistant, so controlling of me; not bearing down on me, but instead, something I was flowing into.
Vader in a live action movie, snakelike breathing and shiny, black beatle-like carapace bearing down on some unfortunate rebel is something few Star Wars fans will be keen to miss, even if this is likely to be an extended cameo.
At first glance the world of business has little bearing on violence against women -- something that usually happens in the street or at home rather than in the office or boardroom.
Do you knock up something quick, bearing in mind the urgent need, or something lasting, bearing in mind the mistakes of the past?
This is the context in which I ponder what could easily be dismissed as an insignificant, ho-hum event, but which strikes me as potentially something else -- a bearing down on the global antiwar lever.
