Sentence examples for term bears from inspiring English sources

The term bears comparison with "young fogeys", a term coined by The Independent on Sunday's late columnist Alan Watkins in 1984.

But their reasoning behind publicly denouncing the term bears examination, as do the implications of their assertions.

reports during Mr. Staats's term bore political consequences.

At the mention of the term "bear-proof" all present erupted into uncontrollable laughter.

The term bear may derive from the proverb about "selling the bearskin before one has caught the bear" or perhaps from selling when one is "bare" of stock.

SIR, We are deeply offended by your newspaper's persistent use of the term "bear market" to describe falling share prices.

According to this account, that was the origin of the term "bear market," meaning a fall in stock prices, or speculating in anticipation of a fall.

Mr. Obama's first term bore the two hallmarks of what has become the permanent campaign: disproportionate travel to key electoral states and substantial time dedicated to political fund-raising from practically the moment he took office.

It was primarily a political term, borne of a recognition among those who'd recently arrived in Britain that they faced obstacles in common and would try and beat them together.

Julia, meanwhile, was agonising over two "adorable" (her closest stab at a scientific term) bear cubs, Herbie and Fern, who she feared would freeze to death up a snowy tree.

Announcements by power plant operators proclaiming that conventional power plants are to be decommissioned or not built at all in the short-to-medium term bear testimony to this development [3,6].