My military service quickly taught me that there was an inextricable link between the weapon I carried on my shoulder and the suffering to which I bore daily witness.
And even here in the country's financial capital, where residents bear daily witness to the stark extremes of Indian wealth and poverty, Mr. Ambani's building is so spectacularly over the top that the city's already elastic boundaries of excess and disparity are being stretched to new dimensions.
In the book, Cora, a young woman enslaved on a Georgia plantation, bears daily witness to the vicious discipline and grueling labor of the estate.
To be neoconservative is to bear almost daily witness to the resurrection of Adolf Hitler.
After the attack, I couldn't bear the daily intimacy with devastation.
He considers Lily: "Average, more or less — bright, of course, and curious, and a bit reckless, and possessed of an annoying tendency to try to bring philosophy to bear on daily life in rather purist and militant ways — but all that this added up to, essentially, was average for a decent young student at a decent New England college" (in Lily's case, Middlebury).
"Children have had no hand in the current global challenges caused by humanity but bear the daily brunt of their consequences.
In February 2016, heavily pregnant and unable to bear the daily terror and hunger, Ms. Dahiru took a chance and managed to escape.
We do not exactly know what degree of tension the structures bear in daily life, during the surgical procedure itself, and during the early postoperative phase, for example, coughing when waking from anesthesia.
Humans are taller in the morning after the discs decompress while the body is supine overnight and shorter in the evening after the discs have borne weight during daily activity[ 12].
