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bearing

dignified manner or conduct relevant relation or interconnection those issues have no bearing on our situation the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain (= charge) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield (= posture) characteristic way of bearing one's body stood with good posture

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Simple sentences

Bearing can be unbearable.
Your conduct is beyond bearing.
That has no bearing on our plan.
It has some bearing on this problem.
It has no bearing on this problem.
Polyandry used to be common among the Sherpas of Nepal, where a band of brothers would often take a wife in common. When she died--of child-bearing or overwork--they would frequently marry her younger sister.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
There is nothing of the banker in his bearing.
He came bearing a large bunch of flowers.
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
In my garden many trees are bearing fruit.
That has no bearing on the matter.

Movie subtitles

Miss James made a discovery that could have some bearing on this case.
Go find a letter bearing the signature of King Charles.
She came bearing the olive branch.
Your Honor, what she is saying has no bearing on the case. I object.
That has a bearing on the case, hasn't it?
How's Miss Scarlett bearing up?
What possible bearing. can the former occupation of the witness have on this trial?
Aircraft in sight, bearing green 1-7-0.
Bearing red 1-4-0.
Bearing green 3-0, vessel on fire.
Captain, vessel on fire, bearing green 3-0.
Your Honour, this ghost story has no bearing on the case.
They're bearing down! Give way together.
What's the bearing?
I can see a huge safari with you at the head. bearing ivory down to the coast.
She has no bearing on the case.
Well, do such hypnagogic states have any bearing on this case?
Then the murderer was already bearing down on his arm. when MacFay got the shot away.
I shouldn't move, bearing that in mind.
I'll try to get a radio bearing.
How are the vineyards? Bearing well?
I tell you, these conditions are beyond bearing.
The man or the fur-bearing animal?
Had no bearing on the case.
They're bearing down!
Look, big steamer. Bearing her precious human freight to the farthest flung outposts of the Empire.
The district attorney's office is bearing down on us.
Maybe there's a rough bearing or two.
Bearing 020 degrees. The landfall bearing 020 degrees, straight ahead of you, gentlemen is England.
Sometimes his bearing is almost noble.
Well, it's none too fitting. but it does seem to have some bearing.
Now all we want from you are the patents and the agreements bearing the signatures.
Potter was bearing down hard.

News and current affairs

He says that he did not understand how the growth of non-standard mortgages had lured borrowers and investors into bearing dangerous risks.
But, for the countries bearing the brunt of China's recalcitrant approach to territorial and maritime disputes, this emphasis raises new doubts about America's commitment.
This anxiety is reinforced by the general lack of funds among large groups of people who had nothing to do with creating today's crisis but are bearing the pain of it.
China's internal politics has a bearing on its external policy.
Since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, the peasantry has been the country's most under-represented and manipulated social group, bearing the brunt of the Communists' promotion of heavy industry.
But the advent of derivatives concentrated risk rather than dispersing it, for there was even more money to be made by selling risk to people who did not know how to value it - or, indeed, what risks they were bearing.
Canceling, or even reversing, policies that reduce the cost of bearing a high quantity of children would contribute to higher living standards over the long run.
The ECB must not make the same mistake, even bearing in mind that the two central banks operate in different milieus and under different constraints.
If governments that have already tapped-out their debt-bearing capacity now issued more debt or money or guarantees, they would deal a mortal blow to confidence.
Moreover, much of that risk, even if insured, continues to be borne in Japan, rather than being spread effectively to foreign investors, so Japan is still alone in bearing the costs.
The world now sees and understands the mighty burden Russia has borne, and is bearing, in Chechnya.
The case of Spain - where a competent and respected government is bearing the full brunt of a financial crisis that began elsewhere - is identical.
The alternative - the liability model - requires that each state take responsibility for its own debts, with its creditors bearing the costs of a default.
All of these are seen as Kremlin games, hypothetical and hypocritical, bearing little relation to reality.
Demonstrations in Cyprus in March 2013 included banners bearing caricatures of Merkel done up as Adolf Hitler.
Missing from this logic is an appreciation of the new and powerful global forces that are bearing down on inflation.
Opponents say that the agencies making the arrangements will be the biggest winners - that the huge profits they reap will dwarf the fees paid by foreign couples to the women bearing their children.
But America, in its global war on terror, has justifiably lost interest in bearing Asia's many military burdens alone.
Speculators transfer huge amounts of money from France to high-interest-bearing local deposit accounts, collect their tax-free gains every three months, and take the no-risk plunge again.
An old quarry was being widened and leveled, and the boys followed the bulldozers as they scraped away a stratum of earth to reveal fragile, fossil-bearing shale underneath.
They acknowledge that Africa is bearing the brunt of the economic and climate crises, even though it was least responsible for creating them.
The arrival of the wise men bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Men and women of child-bearing age now carry enough hormone-disturbing compounds in their bodies to impair their fertility.
After all, in Italy, too, the signs point to a coming storm - one bearing down not only on austerity, but also increasingly on the euro itself.

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