bore upon
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Chairman Sophie Irene Loeb, President of the Child Welfare Board, began the speechmaking, all of which bore upon uniform national laws concerning child protection and widows' pensions.
From Time Magazine Archive
The labarum of the emperors was similar in form, and frequently bore upon it a representation of the emperor, sometimes by himself and sometimes accompanied by the heads of members of his family.
From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Macgeorge, Andrew
They had been drawing water from the well Byrgir, in the bucket Sœgr, suspended from the pole Simul, which they bore upon their shoulders.
From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Philosophy touched him more nearly, for it bore upon the two great problems of the human soul—conduct and God.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)
This large dial came into each photograph, of course, and so each picture bore upon itself a clear record of that particular moment in the voyage of the model to which it referred.
From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.
