The pressure is off Congress to bear down on Mr. Trump, allowing the Republicans to bear down on cutting taxes and gutting Obamacare.
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You must bear down on the pen because the paper buckles.
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Hundreds of smartphone cameras bear down on the sensuous aluminum skin.
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"We talk about that, to bear down on our opportunities," Rask said.
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When we get our chances, we have to bear down on them.
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I'd like to see us bear down on our chances a little bit.
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When, as defence secretary, he had to bear down on costs, he did so.
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Italy must bear down on its budget deficits and keep trimming unaffordable public spending.
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Next, as Thanos's goons bear down on them, Captain Marvel comes in with the assist.
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The attacks on Tehran are likely to bear down on Iran both domestically and externally.
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But he believes worse is still to come, as government forces bear down on Mosul itself.
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We have to bear down on Saturday because we don't want to give back two points.
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The first is about how much the NHS should bear down on hospitals about doctors' working time.
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The striker turned, expecting another blue shirt to bear down on Rojo and keep the pressure up.
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These bear down on us like police officers or terrorists, but with single eyes that suggest surveillance cameras.
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But when it comes to the corner office, the incentives to bear down on pay are less clear.
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"We want the full force of the Fourth Estate to bear down on this problem," an editor said.
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How much harder China would bear down on North Korea by its own volition remained an open question.
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"We believe this will be a great incentive for companies to bear down on their pay differentials," it said.
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Her images often bear down on or tower over the viewer; one writer compared them to Easter Island heads.
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In The Avengers, it's during that memorable shot of the team in tableau as the Chitauri bear down on them.
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The resulting switching between one energy supplier and another will bear down on prices and improve service quality for everyone.
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Long-time market bear David Tice is warning investors a recession is about to bear down on the United States.
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On Sunday, a third wave of sleet and drizzle continued to bear down on areas where temperatures hovered around freezing.
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The hair stood up on the back of my neck, and I felt an immense weight bear down on me.
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"I've heard your testimony in that regard," she cut in before finally taking her chance to bear down on him.
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Warren sees a crisis in student loans because they bear down on borrowers, perhaps for decades after they finish school.
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Heavy rain and severe storms are expected to bear down on the southern Plains and the Ohio and Tennessee valleys.
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"Future research and future policy are going to have to bear down on these emissions and start controlling them," he said.
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When Hurricane Dorian first made landfall on Sunday, Mr. Lowe recalled, all of its fury seemed to bear down on him.
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Intense storms bear down on these communities -- with recovery that is slow, painful, and often lacking total support from the government.
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It is the third winter storm to bear down on the region in just 10 days and cause widespread, costly flight cancellations.
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In a Simon show, individual actions can have far-reaching consequences, especially when the decisions of the powerful bear down on the vulnerable.
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Mr. Trump acknowledged as much during the campaign, saying on one occasion that China should do more to bear down on the North.
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But it's the moral consequences of the characters' actions that bear down on the film most heavily, the human folly that perverts their idealism.
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Short-term shortages at the pump are typical as hurricanes bear down on an area and drivers fill up their tanks as a precaution.
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How could a "grand bargain" like this unfold as Amazon and local leaders in New York and Virginia bear down on the final stretch?
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Mr. Thompson said The Times would continue to "bear down on costs" but added that the company was committed to investing in its journalism.
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Even as regulators bear down on the top technology companies and some lawmakers seek to break them up, Big Tech is bigger than ever.
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"We had opportunities to tie that game up, we hit some posts and we didn't bear down on our chances," Kings defenseman Drew Doughty said.
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The storm will soon bear down on the east coast of Florida, with the National Hurricane Center issuing a serious warning about Matthew's potential impact.
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Despite this record, Boris in 2012 promised to "bear down on fares" adding that "under my approach fares will be lower in the long term".
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Despite this record, Johnson in 2012 promised to "bear down on fares" adding that "under my approach fares will be lower in the long term".
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With the full weight of two gangs of assassins about to bear down on them, making it through the night alive will be a challenge.
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We'd see a lot of footage of them running for the senate elevators frantically pushing the "close door" button as journalists bear down on them.
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Gates flips The special counsel's office found other ways to bear down on Manafort: line up cooperators against him and get him sent to jail.
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The storm didn't bear down on the city with all its might: In general, Southeast Florida was spared the breadth of damage that forecasters had conjured.
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If there is anything to look back on this game, a lesson to learn, it's in moments like that, to really bear down on rebound control.
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" As the protesters bear down on the Microsoft building, they launch into a chant that riffs on the UNIX command to delete a file: "RM DRM!
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As with "Last Chance U," Whiteley tries to bear down on the particulars of the sport while getting to know these athletes off the field, too.
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Winston has already crossed the island of Vanua Balavu with sustained wind speeds of 106 miles per hour, and is continuing bear down on Fiji's Lau archipelago.
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In person, she has a lean-close Southern warmth and a kind of lightheartedness, but a weight of responsibility seems to bear down on her current career.
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In visiting Washington personally, Zuckerberg underscores the gravity of the moment for Facebook as lawmakers and regulators continue to bear down on the tech industry's biggest players.
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With a band that can bear down on a groove or take jazzy excursions, his songs surveyed decades of funk, from 1970s Stevie Wonder to 21st-century trap.
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"We are going to bear down on operating costs, but in markets like London and Shanghai we need to spend more on marketing to hold our share," he said.
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Six unblinking, disembodied eyes bear down on all those who arrive at the principal entrance to the palatial setting of Blenheim Palace, the ancestral home of Sir Winston Churchill.
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Good excuse to bear down on David's recipe for vegetarian mapo tofu, a dish that you'll need to make a few times before you nail down your saucing technique.
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There were so many other forces that came to bear down on her and ultimately left her in this place that I don't think she could have even imagined.
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The best I can see is to bear down on budget deficits and public debt by raising revenues (and rigorously controlling government spending) through steady and non-inflationary economic growth.
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China's non-financial outbound direct investment in January- October slumped 40.9 percent year-on-year to $86.31 billion as authorities bear down on what they say are speculative foreign ventures.
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You contain both impulses at maximum dosage, so the question is: Have you used your darkness to bear down on an inner truth or to get your way at all costs?
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The scathing criticism he has received illustrates how swiftly societal pressure can bear down on people who are perceived to be endangering public health, even if they pose no actual threat.
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The world's governments urgently need to look past the sparkly good news in the electricity sector and bear down on heating and transportation, where most of the energy is being consumed.
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In 2018, the most prevalent argument among liberal pundits turns on whether it's a better electoral strategy to target President Donald Trump and his administration or bear down on core economic issues.
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But the President, while flashing characteristic defiance, also showed hints of political self-awareness suggesting he understands the gravity of his political plight as intense pressures bear down on his White House.
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Your New Year's resolution may or may not still be intact, and there's a strong possibility another winter storm will bear down on your place of residence some time during the next month.
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Our first photo story this week looks at how people around the world are dealing with the exhaustive summer heat as record-breaking temperatures bear down on much of the US and Europe.
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But when storms bear down on this country's coasts—scary ones, like Hurricane Florence (since downgraded to a tropical storm), threatening floods and high winds—our minds zero in on the transportation aspects.
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Lawmakers were rushing to approve the legislation before government disaster aid was projected to run ran out at week's end and as the deadly Hurricane Irma was projected to bear down on Florida.
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As the money and the fame and the relentless details constantly bear down on him—stressors that will only grow with Carolina Confessions—King has to spell out his reasons for doing it.
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Teams that slow them down and force a half-court game can make things ugly, but Chicago has a lot of above-average talent who can bear down on defense and win slugfests.
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The bank has now left the rate on hold at 11 percent since July, signalling its determination to bear down on inflation to meet its target of 4 percent by the end of 2017.
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About half of those have returned to the UK. As investigators bear down on the Manchester tragedy, a key question they'll be looking at is what kind of bomb-making materials the Manchester attacker used.
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But if you really want to bear down on prices, then focusing on getting people to move houses more frequently (and thus increasing supply of second-hand homes to the market) would be far more effective.
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Red Sox BOSTON — There wasn't anything the Tampa Bay Rays could do to help on Sunday as Hurricane Irma began to bear down on their home city of St. Petersburg nearly 1,500 miles away in Florida.
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But these variables can change in the days before hurricanes bear down on coastlines (Harvey was only upgraded to a Category 3 on Friday, and a Category 4 hours later), or even once the storm is underway.
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Trump's fast start is now a memory as intractable controversies bear down on his administration from inside and out, consuming political capital just at the moment when he seeks to enact his agenda at home and abroad.
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A number of provincial capitals across China have rolled out new measures to further slow home property sales, and bear down on lingering speculators that could destabilise markets ahead of a key Communist Party congress next month.
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" Turning to the U.K. specifically, she noted while the first strategic objective for HMRC had been simply to "maximize revenues", this mandate was expanded in February 2016 to "maximize revenues due and bear down on avoidance and evasion.
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As a massive wildfire continues to bear down on the Fort McMurray area of northern Alberta, officials have had to expand a mandatory evacuation order to neighboring communities, including nearby regions in which fleeing residents had sought shelter.
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If the discomfort continues and the chances of having a flirty conversation with my next-door neighbor are close to nil, I remove my headphones, bear down on the cushion and let out a tiny amount of gas.
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Among foreign policy experts, however, there is skepticism that Mr. Trump's flattery of Mr. Xi, and his reliance on the Chinese leader to bear down on North Korea over its nuclear program, will bring the results he wants.
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Mr. Xi is prepared for Mr. Trump to press for more economic punishment against North Korea for its expanding nuclear weapons program and will offer to bear down on the North, an ally of China's, Mr. Shi said.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A number of provincial capitals across China have rolled out new curbs to further slow home property sales, and bear down on lingering speculators that could destabilise markets ahead of a key Communist Party congress next month.
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You want to bear down on the gelatinous coating, and feel the ooze of the sweet laundry detergent release into your mouth, dripping ever so gently off your lips, down onto your chin, before finally laying to rest on your chest.
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But as international regulators bear down on Facebook to acknowledge its past mistakes and prevent them in the future, the company is reluctantly taking more responsibility for monitoring the information on its platform—if only to ward off government intervention.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's non-financial outbound direct investment from January to October fell 40.9 percent year-on-year to $86.31 billion, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday as authorities bear down on what they say are speculative foreign ventures.
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ERBIL, Iraq — As security forces bear down on Mosul, the Islamic State has moved hundreds of civilians from villages around the city to use as human shields, and the United Nations said the militants may have killed nearly 200 people.
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Current-account surpluses in, say, Japan and Germany, which together totalled nearly half a trillion dollars in 2018, bear down on the interest rates that must be set by the central banks of other countries to keep inflation on target.
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Even as Congress passed $15 billion in initial funding for Hurricane Harvey relief, Americans were glued to their TVs watching Hurricane Irma, the strongest-ever Atlantic storm, bear down on Florida, where millions are still without power and other services.
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A textured foam collar affords you a comfortable, secure grip while you brush or scrape, but do take note that the brush head can get in the way as you try to bear down on the ice with the scraper end.
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A new case against Corsi would likely make clear that Mueller's unit, which has already charged 12 Russian military intelligence specialists with hacking the Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign, continues to bear down on investigating the alleged hackers' contacts before the election.
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The latest displacement of civilians is small in terms of the more than 3 million Iraqis who have been forced from their homes over the past two years, but it foreshadows much greater upheaval to come as security forces bear down on Mosul.
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The index was still on course to end lower for a third straight week and has lost around $1 trillion in value this year as rising U.S. interest rates, a strong dollar and an escalating U.S.-China trade war bear down on sentiment.
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There are always people who refuse to evacuate as wildfires bear down on their communities, firefighters and sheriff's deputies say, but many residents appear to have resigned themselves to a new reality in California of a constant state of readiness for the next disaster.
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WASHINGTON — A year after presiding over a sluggish and chaotic response to a devastating storm in Puerto Rico, the Trump administration girded on Wednesday for a test of its ability to do better as Hurricane Florence continued to bear down on the Carolina coast.
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Because after all, there are times like this, when hurricanes named Dorian — a name forever associated with horror and the undying — ferociously bear down on the places and the people we love, providing a foretaste of what is to come when the waters will not recede.
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President Donald Trump seemed to adopt the role of programmer in chief on Sunday, firing off a series of tweets that singled out for solidarity and scorn various anchors at his favorite network, Fox News, and suggested that federal regulators should bear down on "Saturday Night Live" and NBC.
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I think we do have something that's looming for us as a country that I think about a lot, and to get back to the gender angle, we have this retirement savings crisis which is $13 trillion in size, which is going to bear down on us at some point.
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T. rex evolved mainly during the Cretaceous period to have keen eyes, spindly arms and massive conical teeth, which could bear down on prey with the force of a U-Haul truck; the dinosaur could even swallow whole bones, as affirmed here by a kid-friendly display of fossilized excrement.
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The security minister, Ben Wallace, referred to the series when he told The Times of London this month that he wanted the government to "bear down on criminals and corrupt politicians from abroad"; reportedly, it prompted a number of London-based oligarchs to ask the Kremlin whether they can return home.
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T. rex evolved mainly during the Cretaceous Period to have keen eyes, spindly arms and massive conical teeth, which could bear down on prey with the force of a U-Haul truck; the dinosaur could even swallow whole bones, as affirmed here by a kid-friendly display of fossilized excrement.
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YORK: And if you look at the court papers they quote a note that he wrote her saying he was very happy that they broke up in December of 123 right when the FBI was beginning to bear down on him, that he was happy that she&aposd been able to get all of these scoops.
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"It seems that the slowdown in producer price inflation largely reflected energy effects, which should continue to bear down on producer and consumer price inflation over the rest of the year," said Jack Allen, European economist at Capital Economics, noting that the ambivalent figures are likely to leave the European Central Bank's stimulus program unchanged this year.
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