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
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
When first our Southern flag arose, Beside the heaving sea, It bore upon its silken folds A green Palmetto tree.
From Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 by Anonymous
He did not care for the play, for music, for pictures, or for literature, excepting when literature bore upon the work in hand.
From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Warren, Arthur
