"bear a relation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a connection between two things. For example, "This concept bears a relation to our previous lesson."
GALLERIES DOWNTOWN YAYOI KUSAMA Kusama has often flirted with figuration in painting and sculpture, her proliferating dots and biomorphic oblongs always bear a relation to the body, and fruit and flower shapes arise regularly, too.
Rather, the principle would have to bear a relation at least of consistency with some norm in the original set.
There are at least four other areas of applied ethics that seem to bear a relation to personal identity, and we will lay out the issues of each very briefly.
All creatures, from rocks to angels, are signs in the sense of shadows and traces of God, for they all bear a relation of causal dependency upon God as their source; but only rational creatures can have the divine as an object of their activities and, for that reason, can conform themselves to the divine will and become likenesses of God.
Our results indicate that the transcripts bear a relation to toxins from diverse scorpion genera targeting different ion channels.
The outside world shares much of the blame for the plight of Congo and its neighbors: European colonists divided the continent up into nations that rarely bore a relation to geographic or ethnic boundaries.
Relations can be represented by sets of ordered pairs (a, b) where a bears a relation to b. Sets of ordered pairs are commonly used to represent relations depicted on charts and graphs, on which, for example, calendar years may be paired with automobile production figures, weeks with stock market averages, and days with average temperatures.
But the real message of what's on view seems to be that deeming painting or drawing alive, then dead, then resurrected, while it certainly helps art dealers move product, no longer bears a relation to a good deal of what's being made.
Factor 2 is "training benefits", and bears a relation to the advantages of the approach of game-based learning in teaching and learning processes in university contexts for the initial training of future teachers.
Thus the totality of beings are bound together making up a universe where every creature bears a relation of similitude to every other creature and to the primary unifying principle from which they emanate, God.
The Father "begets" the Son, and these two bear a different relation to the Spirit; but these relations are not causal, but only logical.
