The resistance comes chiefly from middle-ranking officers who cannot bear to wave goodbye to the weapons with which they have grown up.

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The irrational one is obvious though: those in petty authority cannot bear to have that authority, meagre as it is, mocked or questioned.

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In some cases, the lawyers investigating a matter become personally invested in the case, and cannot bear to see their hard work go to waste.

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We were supposed to meet in his home, but his parents are still so grief-stricken that they cannot bear to have their son's name mentioned in their presence.

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They cannot bear to risk such capital losses again, so they stay away from equities and over-weight their portfolios with Treasury bonds and other conventional fixed income securities where they naively believe they cannot lose principal.

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Second, America and a few countries cannot be expected to bear the burden of the fiscal and interest rate stimulus alone.

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If their economies are too fragile to reschedule Greek debt, then they certainly cannot bear a messy default.

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We cannot expect to achieve this by raising tax rates, unless those who bear the burden of these higher taxes do so cheerfully.

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The point to bear in mind is that Mr Jospin has said, too often to retract, that a minister cannot also be a mayor.

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