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Example sentences for: brunt

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The Times reports that state lawmakers are bearing the brunt of reform: states adopted 1,400 health-care bills last year, and another 16,000 proposals have been introduced for 2000.
"Israelis have been temporarily spared the brunt of the American Jewish assimilation crisis, because secular Israelis remain Jews," it said.
Portugal’s citizens, overburdened with taxes, bore the brunt of the king’s extravagances.
Canada bore the brunt of US hostility in the War of 1812.
The critics argue that left to itself the market will correct, leaving only a few currency speculators to bear the brunt of a currency collapse.