Sentence examples for have borne down from inspiring English sources
The city's money problems have borne down on Mr. Raia like a locomotive.
In a report financed by the Department of Justice a decade ago, Donald Braman, a George Washington University law professor, argued, "For generations, social institutions from slavery and segregation to broadly punitive criminal sanctions have borne down unremittingly on poor and minority families and communities".
However, this study ignored the indirect effects of China on wages and the fact that cheaper Chinese goods do not just reduce the price of imports from China but, through competition, the price of all goods sold worldwide.Mr Kohn may well have underestimated the extent to which globalisation has borne down on inflation in past years.
It is easy to be bearish about computing; a mixture of technical bloat and technical limits has borne down on progress and we seem to be facing a hiatus.
Previously, the big five had tolerated the QAA because it had borne down primarily on the ex-polys.
That in a proudly wizened nutshell is the philosophy behind Gudrun Sjoden, an eco-conscious retail powerhouse that has just borne down upon SoHo from Sweden, like Glinda the Good Witch and her bubble.
When the Liberal government lost the 1874 general election after trying to curb pub opening hours, chancellor Gladstone reflected that they had "been borne down on a torrent of gin and beer".
Not surprisingly, Mr. Salinger turned him down, saying he had "borne all the exploitation and loss of privacy I can possibly bear in a single lifetime".
What if they had wheeled and borne down on the fissured heart of power in the instant of its disarray?
Efforts to revive the nation's traditional culture have borne mixed results, bogged down by factional bickering, philosophical disagreements, budgetary restraints and habit.
