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
How much the lure of a strange land and stirring things to be done bore upon my decision I cannot say.
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
He rose to reply; and first, without alluding to Corrie at all, clearly and entirely overturned every argument he had advanced, that bore upon the question.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker
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)
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
