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
In diamonds alone an emperor’s ransom was displayed; and more than one fair masker bore upon her neck and arms, and graceful head, the annual revenue of half-a-dozen German princes.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various
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
It had been his habit of life to feed his mind upon hard and incontrovertible facts which bore upon the goal of his ideals.
From The Men Who Wrought by Cullum, Ridgwell
I did my best to set forth every consideration that in any wise bore upon it, and to make clear and emphatic what I regarded as the marrow of the matter.
From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary
