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
Now it seemed as though He bore upon His brow an invisible helm of victory, on which the dove of the Holy Spirit rested with outspread wings.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
"Neither could you collect from their conversation any thing which bore upon the number of the Austrian advance guard, or their state of preparation?"
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
The amphitheatre, which here and there bore upon its surface a thin and scattered covering of bush and undergrowth, seemed everywhere about half-a-mile across from wall to wall.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.
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)
