The helmet that bore the brunt was a lightweight, carbon-reinforced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

And the most recent consumer can call the brunt of joy, when the N900 Nokia.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.hardwarezone.com.sg] Reference

"The effect was to front-load earnings only to have back-ended costs, the brunt which is getting felt today," he writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bearish Mr. Mayo, Bullish Mr. Bove] Reference

The currency that bore the brunt was the yen.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Accord to Remember] Reference

Selce has borne the brunt of the Macedonian siege.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Thick Of It] Reference

The middle classes and the young are taking the brunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brain Drain] Reference

So far, the dollar is taking the brunt of any correction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Iran Next?] Reference

And once again, civilians are likely to bear most of the brunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fallout: Gauging The Human Toll] Reference

You're saying that the brunt of this falls on them, the airlines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Safety Meltdown] Reference

Once, the young and blue-collar workers bore the brunt of firings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Foreboding] Reference

Are the British and the Americans bearing the brunt of operations?.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Half the Equation’] Reference

And then if we're hit again, who will feel the brunt of shockn'awe?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Shakespeare] Reference

  Still, Zhou has no doubt about where the brunt of the blame lies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poisoned Pork and Other Food Problems] Reference

Many are very nervous because they obviously will bear the brunt of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Targeting Saddam] Reference

I was aware of and had borne the brunt of the forces that helped shape him.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Odyssey] Reference

It is the women and children of all the people that bear the brunt of such crises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bombs Away] Reference

But he got trapped in a cesspool, and now the soldiers are the ones bearing the brunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Soldiers Write Home] Reference

"McDonald's takes more of the brunt of the press and nutrition Nazis," says Brenneman.    From Wordnik.com.  [A REALLY BIG IDEA] Reference

Amid the disorder, adult tempers are fraying and children are sometimes feeling the brunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trauma After The Storm] Reference

The global market for animal parts is burgeoning, and American wildlife is bearing the brunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Killing Fields] Reference

But recently scientists have found that reefs are taking the brunt of the warming atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reefs: Coral's Faltering Partnership] Reference

Back then the unions didn't understand that they would have to bear the brunt of any downturn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloomberg's Game Plan] Reference

The county, which bore the brunt of the snipers 'terror, also housed the massive investigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death-Penalty Maze] Reference

As state Senate aide John Bitney puts it, "We don't have to bear the brunt of this by ourselves.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Climatic Showdown in Alaska] Reference

Moreover, taxpayers, insurance companies and the federal government will absorb most of the brunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Everything Is Underwater] Reference

And, most important, they had no problem making me the brunt of their cruel little post-tennis match.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stop Ordering Me Around] Reference

But the people suffering the brunt of the government's campaign so far have been the peasants of Putumayo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into The Breach] Reference

But they won't do this, which is such a disservice to the men and women who are bearing the brunt of this war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Veterans’ Health-Care Crunch] Reference

Voters in January rejected an emergency tax measure as a stopgap, and now police services are bearing the brunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homeland Insecurity] Reference

Stiller has always been more of an ensemble player, at his most popular when he's playing the brunt of the joke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Days of 'Thunder'] Reference

Workers and young families, not retirees, would bear the brunt of either higher taxes or degraded public services.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Lie of 2008] Reference

DEFENSE SECRETARY LES Aspin is bearing the brunt of Military disgruntlement over Bill Clinton's handling of Somalia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angry At Aspin] Reference

"In the wake of the economic crisis, they have really borne the brunt of the financial meltdown," Ms. Gonzalez said.    From Wordnik.com.  [WSJ Article] Reference

Congress mandates the Director of the CIA is the orphan who will bear the brunt of punishment should the system fail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ed Hooper: When Paperwork Power Struggles Turn Dangerous] Reference

But they know this is already the real thing, and that odds suggest they will bear the brunt of the Navy's share of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between The Lines Online: A New Kind Of War] Reference

The university has felt the brunt of the flood waters because so much of the university campus is along the riverfront.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We Are the Lucky Ones'] Reference

State officials will bear the brunt of administering whatever system eventually emerges from the White House and Congress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experimental States] Reference