Sentence examples for term to bear from inspiring English sources

Since many oil-exploration projects take longer than the six-year presidential term to bear fruit, the politicians have a powerful incentive to spend oil revenues rather than reinvest them.

In a surprising development, Amnesty brought a powerful, historically resonant term to bear, claiming that some of the cases of civilian drone deaths it investigated in Pakistan might constitute "war crimes" for which those responsible should stand trial.

It can take five to seven years of financial support, sweat equity and long-term thinking to bear fruit.

If the flotations go well, the foreigners will make a decent return and can then wait for their longer-term plans to bear fruit.

In all cases, the effects are substantial in absolute terms, being willing to bear on some risk when investing increases the probability of owning stock by 0.20 percentage points in Spain and by 0.18 percentage points in the US.

So did HSBC's chairman, Stephen Green, who told the BBC: "There has been far too much focus on payments that are very short-term focused, people who pick up the tab for short-term profits, without having to bear the costs of long-term impairments".

Currently, Chiltern Trains is the only operator required under the terms of its franchise to bear the responsibility - and cost - of providing enough capacity to meet demand.

Acute (short-term) goals naturally tend to bear greater momentary weight than chronic goals.

Attempts to get agreement on whatever replaces Kyoto will face the same fundamental difficulty as Kyoto did: how to get the world's biggest polluters to sign up to a deal that will require them to agree to bear short-term costs in return for uncertain long-term benefits which will accrue only if other big polluters do their bit.

At 62, Mr. Ewing is a retired automobile dealer who cites his community activities, his faith (he calls the so-called marriage tax penalty "contrary to Biblical principles"), his commitment to term limits and the right to bear arms, and his opposition to abortion as reasons for sending him to the House.

Though in the short term the company will have to bear the heavy weight of the $3.8 billion acquisition costs on its balance sheet, Adobe is expected to raise its current $1.6 billion revenue comfortably past $2.5 billion by 2007.