The resistance comes chiefly from middle-ranking officers who cannot bear to wave goodbye to the weapons with which they have grown up.
The irrational one is obvious though: those in petty authority cannot bear to have that authority, meagre as it is, mocked or questioned.
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.
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.
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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The obvious way out would be to use the DTP as a proxy, rather as Britain used Sinn Fein to deal with the IRA. The trouble is that the notoriously egocentric Mr Ocalan cannot bear to remain out of the limelight.
Many Syrian families never receive the bodies of their loved ones, so they cannot bear witness to horrific torture or so a funeral doesn't turn into another demonstration.
Second, America and a few countries cannot be expected to bear the burden of the fiscal and interest rate stimulus alone.
The President is willing to make tough choices, but he cannot ask the middle class and seniors to bear all the burden for deficit reduction and to sacrifice while millionaires and billionaires and special interests get off the hook -- are let off the hook.
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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.
One cannot help but sympathize with Russian citizens who are, once again, forced to bear the burden of authoritarian government.
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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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