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The eldest son tried to bear the brunt of these burdens, but it was not long before he had to leave.
Nonetheless, outright attacks on government were rare; traders and the uncharitable rich bearing the brunt of the criticism.
They were thus willing to soft-pedal the struggle for equal rights, and thereby avoided the brunt of the ideological incompatibility described above.
The working classes suffered the heaviest brunt of the economic havoc.
My son bore the brunt of my quest for knowledge.
As men left rural areas in light of colonial obligations, women assumed a greater burden of production, and bore the brunt of drought and famine.
Four depicted older people as objects of ridicule or the brunt of a joke, and two portrayed them as being out of touch.
The other 'market' to feel the brunt of deregulation fervour was the labour market.
