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
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 Ridgwell Cullum
He became a more cheerful and a happier man: his brow relaxed; his face no longer bore upon it the expression of a settled sorrow and an abiding disappointment.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
The same was true of the avocats, who bore upon their escutcheon a gowned figure, with something very like a halo surrounding its head.
From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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 Andrew Macgeorge
