bear up under

“I was moved by what they were doing....My children had gone to jail for the cause of justice. I could not bear up under the thought of keeping my distance any longer. I was determined to do my part.”

Observing the bravery of the Ukrainian people makes us wonder how we’d bear up under similar circumstances.

Perhaps it would have been more mature for me to bear up under his demeaning, humiliating sexism and learn as best I could in his classroom, but I should not have faced that choice.

You hear it all the time: "Keep your chin up, accept failure as a part of life, bear up under it, meditate through it."

“Maybe we should do what we need to do to make it possible for them to entertain us, to help us bear up under tough isolation circumstances,” he said.