Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, said: "If we are looking at tax and benefits, some very vulnerable people will feel the full brunt of this cost-saving measure.
Southern EU states bear the brunt of the influx and feel they have had to shoulder the burden of dealing with a problem that should have a common European response.
University and College Union general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: "For too long, further education has had to bear the brunt of funding cuts.
But demanding that women bear the brunt of subverting beauty standards by laying themselves bare is a cruel - and maybe even anti-feminist - way of addressing the issue.
"With every passing day the potential for an epidemic increases, and children are likely to bear the brunt of any disease outbreak.
The Russian people, who are moving on, who embrace foreigners and their country's successes, don't deserve to bear the brunt of the persistence of such a myopic view.
Quangos including Historic England, the British Film Institute, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, the Royal Parks Agency, Sports Ground Safety Authority, UK Anti-Doping and UK Sport's admin budget all bore the brunt of the 7% overall cuts in 2013 and are expected to do so again.
The army, which bears the Afghan brunt and has most political muscle, comes off best.
Ford told the parliament that his party had borne the brunt of the attacks, before listing the Alliance party members who had experienced threats or attacks on their property or offices in the past week.
He treated the 24-year-old in a government hospital five hours away in Kenema that bore the brunt of the initial outbreak in Sierra Leone.
All these people [in Gaza] took the brunt of the attack and now we should chicken out because they [the US and Israel] will cut off some money?
