Sammanfattning
to bear down {verb}
pousser · exercer une pression vers le bas
Engelsk-fransk översättning av "to bear down"
"to bear down" fransk översättning
to bear down {verb}
to bear down {intran. vb} (även: to heave, to prod, to prompt, to push)
to bear down {intran. vb}
Synonymer
Synonymer (engelska) till "bear down":
© Princeton Universitycharge · overbear · drag down · bear down on · press down on · weigh down
Användningsexempel
Användningsexempel för "to bear down" i Franska
I am all the more opposed to any idea of increasing taxes because taxation, whether it be national or European, bears down on the working classes in particular.
As we bear down on public expenditure, we believe, savings equivalent to about 1 per cent of the gross domestic product could be expected in next year's budget.
The authorities in both Algeria and the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya have been quick to exploit the divisions, while continuing to bear down heavily on committed fighters.
In conclusion, addressing the Commission and the Member States, I will repeat that we must achieve definite progress on the problems that bear down on Europe's people.
The entire agenda in Europe of taking forward a uniform competition policy and bearing down on state aid is geared towards ensuring that we have free trade.
The two policemen immediately bore down on the author, punching him and hitting him with their truncheons, knocking him down and continuing to beat him on the ground.
On the one hand he has called for the Palestine authority to bear down on the terrorists in its midst but on the other he has crippled those very agencies which have the capacity to take such action.