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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.
Most important, because the apparel industry has been one of the first to face the full brunt of the retail revolution, its story illuminates pervasive changes under way in the entire economy.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is taking the brunt of editorial criticism for questioning the bombing and Clinton's motives.
But because of a deliberate British policy, the Irish bore the brunt.
"Israelis have been temporarily spared the brunt of the American Jewish assimilation crisis, because secular Israelis remain Jews," it said.