have relation to

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In regard to the nature of habit, it belongs to every habit to have relation to an act.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

For they have relation to the earth, which never refuses command, and never returns without interest that which it hath received; but sometimes with less, generally with very great interest.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

We are taught that there is neither good nor evil in the universe, otherwise than as the events to which we apply these epithets have relation to our own peculiar mode of being.

From Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer by Frederickson, Charles W.

These structural peculiarities of the testa in different plants have relation to the scattering of the seed and its germination upon a suitable nidus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

And usually it will be the case that a person's most striking physical attribute will have relation to some fact of his spirit, as in Stevenson's description Villon's sensual face hints of his sensual soul.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders