bore upon

Dolan’s “historical and ongoing involvement in Democratic politics,” the indictment asserts, “bore upon” his “reliability, motivations, and potential bias as a source of information” for Steele’s reports.

Dolan’s ties to the Democratic Party were so extensive that they bore upon his “reliability, motivations, and potential bias as a source of information” about Trump, the indictment says.

His armor, stab-proof and street ready, bore upon it the rusted colors of his country, and, although he was young, no one in the field doubted that he looked the part.

She called all her nuns, seized the guilty girl and came to the chapter house to reprimand her; and “the girl happened to raise her eyes, when she saw what the abbess bore upon her head, and the laces of the breeches hanging down on each side of her neck, and being a little comforted with that, as she conjectured the fact, she said: “Please, madam, to button your coif, and then tell me what you would have.”

To have judged by the affable and agreeable smile which Louvois bore upon his countenance as he passed the young Count de Morseuil in one of the anterooms, a stranger to that minister would have imagined that he was extremely well disposed towards the gentleman whom he was in fact labouring to ruin.