bear heavily

The judge finally gave a stern warning, the tenor of which was not directed toward any other witness or attorney during the trial: “I don’t know why you hesitate to answer simple questions of this kind, Doctor. It is disturbing me. … If you persist in appearing to dodge questions, answer to questions of this kind, it will bear heavily on my appraisal of your credibility, and I might as well say so right at this moment.”

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

The Buy Box is Amazon’s automated recommendation for which merchant out of several selling the same item should get the sale and whose non-public algorithms bear heavily on the success of independent sellers.

And as that movement’s push for equal access to political power remains unfinished, the insights of his poetry still bear heavily on today.

A factor that will bear heavily on the Leicester discussions is the knowledge that Oxia is at much lower elevation than Mawrth - by about 1,000m.