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Example sentences for: brunt

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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.
Over 80 million Muslims form the second-largest religious group in India — almost as many as the population of Pakistan — most of them descendants from Hindu converts of the Mughals’ empire, who bore the brunt of Hindu retaliation for long years full of subjection and an often unfair identification with British rule.
The brunt of these cuts will be felt most in Wayne County where according to the census some 333,000 poor people live, the largest concentration of poverty in the state.
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.