Sentence examples for it bore when from inspiring English sources

After the collapse of a Communist-backed coup that summer, Mr. Sobchak renamed his native city St . Petersburg the name it bore when it was Russia's imperial capital.

An obituary on Jan . 21about Walter B. Wriston, who was chairman of Citicorp when it was the holding company for Citibank, misstated the name it bore when he went to work there in 1946.

The diary is a sort of portal to the past for the narrator, who begins to refer to Leningrad as St . Petersburg the name it bore when Dostoyevsky lived there.

Those words are from 'Family Affair', the biggest hit and most famous song from There's a Riot Goin' On - the title the album bore when it finally appeared in the fall of 1971 - after which Sly began a long disappearing act, only to resurface against all the odds at this year's Grammy awards in Los Angeles (see box on previous page).

Apparently Best Buy is going to go full bore when it comes to devices like tablets.

Eric Cinnamond, portfolio manager at the Intrepid Small Cap value fund, admits that Prestige is a bore when it comes to growth, but instead he focuses on its improving balance sheet.

I've found it particularly useful when dealing with doctor's/dental receptionists, who suddenly seem able to find appointment spaces at short notice (although it can be a bore when people think you are a medical doctor and launch into a long diatribe about their current symptoms).

I guess that's why I find it hard to bear when women are mean to each other.

It bore fruit when I was managing and coordinating a federal traffic safety grant through the Albany Police Department, one of the cities in the San Francisco East Bay.

With more and more Americans choosing to get their fill of news and politics from comedians instead of "legitimate and reputable" news anchors, it is becoming quite obvious that bad news is much easier to bear when it is delivered with wit and humor.

It was easier to bear when she blamed me for the woes of strangers, even when those strangers fell out of the sky or burned in their churches.