bringing to bear

Example Sentences

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The Easterbook approach is certainly open to question—teaching, even in a public high school, involves bringing to bear informed expertise of the kind that academic freedom under the First Amendment arguably should protect.

From Slate • Jul. 1, 2022

But Pakistan has leverage that it is not bringing to bear, government officials in other countries say.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2021

The weapons he’s now bringing to bear, including executive orders and the U.S. military, were already well prepared for him.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2018

Furthermore, our more questing artists increasingly assume the role of healers contending with an ailing Earth, collectively sickened psyches and fractured societies, bringing to bear a myriad of unexpected skills.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2018

My stay is of indeterminate length, and only until the polite but insistent pressure which the Kaiser's secret police and the General Staff are bringing to bear on their unbidden guest to leave becomes irresistible.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 by Various