bears upon
Example Sentences
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I’ve been with my partner for 15 years; we’re not married, but plan to be in the next five years, if that bears upon this question.
From Slate • Dec. 14, 2021
“Boeing is so big that almost every discussion of strategy, budgets or programs bears upon its interests,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2019
Barr quotes that line and then, in the same sentence, concludes that “the absence of such evidence bears upon the President’s intent with respect to obstruction.”
From Slate • Mar. 24, 2019
The weight of this guilt bears upon us like armor, yet is surely not as easy to take off.
From Time • Jul. 12, 2012
To Barrie's literary art That strong poetic sense is clinging Which hears, in ev'ry human heart, A "late lark" faintly singing, A bird that bears upon its wing The promise of perpetual Spring.
From More Misrepresentative Men by Graham, Harry
