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
He told her of his escapades, of how lightly he had esteemed them when they occurred and how heavily they bore upon him now.
From Running Sands by Reginald Wright Kauffman
Such conversation as there was bore upon the probable verdict, and it was the opinion of the audience that it would be an adverse one.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
This at length he accomplished, but not before he bore upon his head and face the marks of a jumby’s revenge.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
The work bore upon it the imprint of success.
From The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio "Elijah" by Frederick George Edwards
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