• On top of this, low import prices, which have also helped to bear down on inflation, may be beginning to disappear.

    ECONOMIST: The economy

  • And it turns out there are similar howls when someone like Webb tries to bear down on inequality within the older generation too.

    BBC: A few shades of grey at the Treasury

  • "We will look at every single measure necessary to bear down on these problems of truancy, of anti-social behaviour, of juvenile offending, " he said.

    BBC: Party leaders clash over crime

  • The capital costs are beginning to bear down on Ebbers.

    FORBES: Grand illusions

  • Partners will be expected to bear down on corruption.

    ECONOMIST: Development

  • It is far more common for the Senate to bear down on nominees during their confirmation hearings, as was the case for Treasury secretary nominee Jacob Lew, and then proceed to a vote.

    WSJ: Senate Clears Hagel Vote

  • "The fall in the core rate... might be the first real sign that the weakness of households' spending power is starting to bear down on underlying price pressures in the High Street, " said Jonathan Loynes of Capital Economics.

    BBC: UK CPI inflation in surprise fall to 4.2% in June

  • He reflects, with evident exasperation, at the complexity of a tax system over which he used to have considerable influence, warning that the power of vested interests and of the status quo tend to bear down on wannabe reformers.

    BBC: Alex Salmond and David Cameron

  • But even if we clamped down on the US right to keep and bear arms as severely as we have clamped down on that right within the prison population, you still would be faced with that population of people, with their propensity for violence, in the general population.

    FORBES: Only Criminals Have Guns

  • It will be interesting to see if the masses bear down on him in the same way they have with Maria Shriver and insist that, contrary to what he says, he must have known.

    FORBES: Arnold's Baby Mama's Ex-Husband: I Didn't Know Either!

  • We need to make sure that we bear down on all those activities.

    BBC: Police waging war on 180 crime gangs

  • These demands amounted to a virtual run on the banks and helped to bring down Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers.

    NEWYORKER: Mastering the Machine

  • He said the two sides would have "further discussions to bear down very quickly with great specificity on exactly how we will accomplish this goal".

    BBC: China and US make North Korea nuclear pledge

  • Kirkpatrick then showed great skill to turn past Kevin McCann and bear down on goal, drawing a good reaction save from Ryan Esson with his powerful shot.

    BBC: Sport - Football - Hamilton 1-3 Inverness CT

  • No specifics were given, though Mr Kerry said the two sides would hold "further discussions to bear down very quickly with great specificity on exactly how we will accomplish this goal".

    BBC: Kerry hails Chinese North Korea pledge

  • Lord Turner warns that the process of businesses, households, banks and the government trying to cut their big debts built up in the boom years, what is known as deleveraging, may bear down on the British economy's ability to grow for many years yet.

    BBC: Turner: Time for helicopter money?

  • Both sides were relying on the counter attack in a cagey tactical affair and just after the half hour mark a classic Russian break saw Arshavin bear down on the Dutch goal to send in a low curler which Edwin van der Sar tipped around the post.

    CNN: Brilliant Russia beat Dutch in extra time

  • Exhausted perhaps by trying to track down this slippery legal quarry, Ms Olson can't even bear to give Mrs Clinton a nice picture on the jacket.

    ECONOMIST: Washington, Babylon?

  • If it had failed to intervene on Friday, few doubt that Bear would have gone down the tubes.

    ECONOMIST: Rescuing a Wall Street bank

  • On Monday, Empire State Manufacturing added to the bear case outside of the trading floors in the city and down on the dirty and sweaty front lines.

    FORBES: No Double Dip Recession, But Companies Wary

  • Apple shares are now in bear market territory, pushed down by sellers looking to avoid a tax hit on capital gains next year.

    FORBES: Apple's Next Big Thing

  • For what this really does is removes much of the pressure that the Troika (ECB, EU Commission and IMF) can bring to bear on the Greek Government to just shut up and force austerity down the throats of the citizenry.

    FORBES: The Real Greek Solution: Democracy

  • There are economic reasons why BABs underwriting fees may have started out high and then come down: underwriters took on risk with a new product and had to bear start-up costs and devote resources to educate investors for their initial offerings.

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