1、To exert steady weight or force against; bear down on.

2、My batting trainer told me to bear down on my swing.

3、In successive waves, strike groups from each carrier would bear down on the Japanese task force.

4、The bigger that damage, the fewer the spare resources available to bear down on prices.

5、The enemy warship tried to bear down on our small airboat.

6、That reckoning, however, included measures of the dying Labour government adopted by its successor, which bear down on high earners.

7、They would be shouting here again, the roar of children's roller skates would bear down on him from behind.

8、As the producers tend to save more of their income than the consumers, more expensive commodities bear down on global demand.

9、The forms completely distort your perspective of the building; it seems to flatten out from some vantage points and bear down on you from others.

10、All that would bear down on inflation and in turn allow the bank to cut rates, thereby stemming inflows and eventually allowing the currency to fall.

11、If too many workers were idle, that would bear down on prices and allow central Banks to keep interest rates low to boost spending and jobs and to guard against deflation.