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He also said he knows the past will have no bearing upon the outcome of his meeting with the Steelers, against whom he is 11-3, including three playoff wins.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2019

It was a sacred rule passed down from the workers who had come before him, key to the quality of a Link-Belt bearing, upon which all else was built.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2017

Undergrads have a tough enough time with the basics of Nabokov; whether the multiple historiographies of some butterfly archive in Iceland has bearing upon the materiality of Otherness will go over their heads.

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2014

Furthermore, this crisis is far greater, and has a far greater bearing upon citizens' daily lives, than the one that led to the Leveson inquiry.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2012

He had not looked out of the window during the morning and had seen nothing that could have any bearing upon the death of General Macarthur.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie


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