Sentence examples for rarely bore from inspiring English sources

The outside world shares much of the blame for the plight of Congo and its neighbors: European colonists divided the continent up into nations that rarely bore a relation to geographic or ethnic boundaries.

As strange as it may now seem, not only were albums once the state-of-the-art format for recorded music, but they were once literally albums: booklike objects, similar to photo or stamp albums, that contained multiple 78-r.p.m. discs — and whose covers rarely bore anything more than words.

On a personal level, Keynes's charm was such that he was generally well received wherever he went – even those who found themselves on the wrong side of his occasionally sharp tongue rarely bore a grudge.

Elite women who married after the late 1870s – whether conservative, feminist or neither – rarely bore children beyond their mid-30s.

But such provisions rarely bear fruit.

But investigators say efforts to track down stolen cattle rarely bear fruit.

Cynics object to treating hope as a virtue because it rarely bears fruit.

Only a few (business) letters from his own hand have survived, and they rarely bear on artistic matters.

But this is "protection" only in name: such labour-market rigidities are strongly correlated with high poverty rates, since businesses can rarely bear the heavy costs.

For example, a large mammal with a normal pregnancy of more than 150 days, a life span of more than 20 years, a simple (or unicornuate) uterus, and two breasts rarely bears more than one young (a singleton) at a birth.

Against a potent City side that defensive tactic rarely bears fruit, and seven minutes before the break the final line of defence was breached.