bring to bear

"You need companies to come in with the sort the resources they can bring to bear."

But the kind of pressure they brought to bear is significant, too.

But their full political force can be brought to bear only by making the foreign policy case.

Would some pressure have been brought to bear to give the position to someone else?

Those are the weapons you can bring to bear against reason.

There was no pressure brought to bear on any of these key people.

The whole of modern technology will be brought to bear.

If there is a law which could be brought to bear!

And there is nothing I can bring to bear that will help them.

"This was a chance for me to take the skills and approach I bring to problems to bear."