Late, Mississippi is a dark backdrop bearing down on the windows of her room.
"Management are bearing down upon workers who are ill, " said CWU branch secretary Stephen Bell.
We want to save ourselves from that toothy dinosaur bearing down on our little huts.
Of course, it just might be a truck bearing down on us at 90 mph.
The sessions can be intense, with all five YC partners bearing down on presenters.
WSB-TV in Atlanta aired footage of an enormous funnel cloud bearing down on Adairsville.
Even with this crisis bearing down, is there enough agreement among countries about what regulations should be passed?
On bad days, the evil wind will start somewhere in Ohio and come bearing down on us relentlessly.
The full weight of the Australian government is bearing down on the Bush administration to resolve his case.
Her mother called her just as the tornado was bearing down on her.
He also said that you have to "keep bearing down on public expenditure".
Despite fanciful talk of a "patriotic rally" for American share prices, financial gravity is bearing down on US equities.
For many existing issuers, that means bearing down on the funds you have.
The aggregate of debt bearing down on the UK economy remains at more-or-less record levels equivalent to around 400% of GDP.
He will need as few impediments as possible once Mr Kohl starts bearing down on him, challenging his reliability and sincerity.
If a storm with a name started bearing down on the Cape, there would be no place for a third shuttle to hide.
In 1994, Intuit dodged being swallowed up by software behemoth Microsoft largely because regulators were bearing down on the company with antitrust objections.
You can add to that competition authorities and regulators bearing down on banks' control of the market in personal current accounts and insurance.
Their response was tepid, then cautiously optmistic and then somewhat enthusiastic, but you could feel the weight of the recession bearing down their spirits.
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But perhaps none are as inspiring as what took place when the storm was bearing down on Joplin, threatening an entire community with utter destruction.
The forces bearing down on unionism are many and strong: two governments, public opinion in Britain, the Irish republic and abroad, and the party leadership.
Rules on capital and liquidity known as Basel 3 are already crushing returns, and that in turn is bearing down on both pay and employment.
The storm barreled in that night and held us in a terrifying embrace for many hours, sounding like the roar of a dozen freight engines bearing down.
Eric Pickles has consistently argued that it is by bearing down on waste and duplication that local authorities can find the necessary savings without damaging front-line services.
While it's spring on the calendar, a snowstorm is bearing down on the Northeast after dumping from 7 to 15 inches of snow from Colorado to the Midwest.
Super Storm Saturn was bearing down on the East Coast.
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Mensing then forced Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster to get down and save a weak shot after a neat one-two brought the Hamilton defender bearing down on the Celtic goal.
For regular folks it seemed hand-to-mouth as usual, but soon I became aware of something new stirring: a tidal wave of foreign capital was bearing down on Haiti's shores.
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