Sentence examples for under the brunt from inspiring English sources

And in Russia, which is suffering under the brunt of US sanctions, a state-owned paper was eager to call attention to the situation.

"If we get another Netanyahu government - which is highly likely - and he puts together an even more right-wing coalition, Israel is going to come under the brunt of increased international criticism," he says.

London and Newcastle-under-Lyme will bear the brunt of the cuts, along with Manchester.

Where pensioner incomes grew by 50% in real terms in the 15 years from 1994, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that the under-30s have borne the brunt of the recession.

Children under five bear the brunt of the disease.

But Mosul also has a hard Sunni core, partly fuelled by disgruntled former officers under Saddam who bore the brunt of de-Baathification policy after America toppled Saddam in 2003.

Children under 5 years bore the brunt of the disease (n = 93/174, 53.4%).

In the haphazard transition to democracy under Boris N. Yeltsin, conventional forces bore the brunt of downsizing and shrinking budgets.

And Pakistani Christians have borne the brunt of arrests under the country's blasphemy law; a governor of my province was assassinated for trying to repeal it.

Many of those who voted to leave, the "just about managing" people that Theresa May first described on the steps of Downing Street, are exactly the ones who will bear the brunt of Brexit under the chancellor's plans.

Workers are under attack and women are bearing the brunt of it when it comes to pay.