have reference to

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I’ve sworn to myself that from now on the only months of the year I’ll refer to is months that have reference to births and anniversaries.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2015

“I’ve sworn to myself that from now on the only months of the year I’ll refer to is months that have reference to births and anniversaries,” he said in an interview this week.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2015

When advertisers use the second person, they have reference to any and all.

From Time Magazine Archive

This longitude effect could only have reference to charged particles, since the geomagnetic field is stronger in India than in the U. S. Photons were left out of the picture.

From Time Magazine Archive

The words have reference to the attributes of the God in the old Italian religion, in which the powers of Nature were deified and worshipped long before Mars was identified with the Greek Ares.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.