So their prospects bear heavily on the well-being of the country.

I was now about twelve years old, and the thought of being a slave for life began to bear heavily upon my heart.

Without bearing down too heavily, the film suggests that the 2,000-year tradition may be coming to end.

The cares of the crown are many, and they bear heavily upon me.

These developments bear heavily on families in ways that dramatize the need for reforms.

They also have a tendency to bear heavily one year then lightly the next.

There was a crash as of living beings borne heavily to earth.

Bearing heavily on his cane, he limped down the steps to the commissioner's car.

Another result that bears heavily on the public purse is an increase in jail overload.

But if yesterday's events are any guide to future decisions, political commitments will bear heavily in each separate case of privatization.