Sentence examples for bearing relation from inspiring English sources

Russell now believed that some facts are negative, i.e., that if "R a, b)" is false, there is such a fact as a's not bearing relation R to b.

Perhaps most charitably interpreted (for other interpretations considered by Russell, see BReal, 87), this amounts to the claim that a's bearing relation R to b is always reducible to properties held by a and b individually, or to a property held by the complex formed of a and b.

For Malebranche, "the ways of being" of a body are restricted to what can be understood as bearing relations of distance to other things.

Not being within a mile of a rhododendron is clearly relational, but does not consist in bearing a relation to any non-part, as we can see by the fact that a non-rhododendron all alone in a world can satisfy it.

The piece keeps landing with a thud, bearing little relation to its Mozart accompaniment.

Seasoned observers may dismiss this as standard rhetoric bearing little relation to reality, but international experts remain concerned.

The "globe" is built of maps haphazardly glued together in an arrangement bearing little relation to the traditional orb.

Economists at UBS warned inflated prices are a bubble at risk of bursting with prices bearing no relation to incomes.

For all their modifications of source materials, Mr. Ek and Ms. Marin still preserved a narrative bearing some relation to that of the ballets they adapted.

By the end, the complex structure had created a multi-billion-dollar lending chain, bearing no relation to Shire's overall borrowing needs.

O.K., they weren't strictly mine, in the sense that these ideas were acquired, arranged, styled, photographed, published and distributed by entities bearing no relation to me whatsoever.