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weigh heavy upon
verb as in oppress
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Most of that generation has a few regrets which weigh heavy upon them – even if they won’t admit to them.
The lawmakers said they would not be easily pressed into votes for measures they felt would compromise their standards, even if the hands of leadership weigh heavy upon them in the coming battle over whether to raise the country’s debt ceiling or to support a Republican budget plan that would rewrite major entitlement programs.
He said nothing concerning the crime that had brought him to a malefactor's death, and thereby showed that it did not weigh heavy upon his conscience.
Augusta gently pointed out to him that publishing was a very respectable business when fairly and properly carried on, and not one that ought to weigh heavy upon a man at the last like the record of a career of successful usury or burgling.
Do they not weigh heavy upon your conscience?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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