More than a few people, schoolkids especially, found themselves wondering why the storm couldn't have brought its force to bear on a weekday, instead of a weekend.
He assured two visitors to his office that he was certain the Pentagon would, in time, "bring decisive force to bear" -- and then changed the subject.
CINCINNATI — Fresh off his nominating convention, Mitt Romney is cranking up a well-financed political machine that will now bring its full force to bear on President Obama with a hailstorm of ads and nonstop campaigning.
In part as a result, the Union was able to bring a large force to bear at Gettysburg, and Lee was defeated in the war's pivotal confrontation. Lee offered to resign.
Even as the government was bringing extreme force to bear, it was still unable to quell the rebels, who have managed to disrupt the airport and force a counteroffensive to seal off the city center from the restive suburbs.
"Breaking the line" of the enemy fleet was one aim, because this broke the enemy's tactical cohesion and made it possible to overwhelm individual ships by bringing greatly superior force to bear on each of them in turn.
