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
"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
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
Mr. Tallmadge had not only prevented Mr. Garrison from speaking of the war, but he had headed the conversation off every time it approached any topic of the day that bore upon the South.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth
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.
