"bears a connection" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe the relationship between two ideas, topics, or concepts. For example, "This experiment bears a connection to previous research in the field."
It bears a connection to the problem of knowledge as formulated in the Cartesian tradition, and it is accompanied by a translator's introduction that spells out the structure, argument, and movement of the text.
The perceived unemployment rate bears a connection to the actual unemployment rate, reflected in a correlation of 0.32 across all individuals in our dataset.
OccupyTogether.org radiates a communal energy, which also indicates that enough people are finally fed up with the way things are run in this corporate country -- the way things have been - that we are willing to risk arrests and police brutality -- that JP Morgan funded NYPD which bears a connection to 700 arrests of peaceful marchers.
Since everything seen or said, however trivial, can bear a connection to the story's outcome, nothing must be overlooked.
One possibility is that this is part of the normal function of aSyn, but it could also bear a connection with the increased vulnerability of dopaminergic neurons.
It is as though modern screenwriters were minded to kill off any lingering idea that comedy bears a logical connection to elegance: good riddance to Ernst Lubitsch.
This conventional wording means that a picture bears a faint connection to a master's oeuvre, but is neither by him nor by an artist working in his workshop.
Mr. Huffman uses this descriptor because the XTS, unlike its BMW-benchmarking stablemates, bears a clear connection to the hard-working, soft-riding luxury sedans of the marque's not-so-distant past.
If mental state attribution bears a special connection with behavior, it is tempting to say that mentality just consists in behavioral tendencies.
Causal Condition: X has knowledge of P only if X bears a causal connection to the truth-maker of P. If one accepts Realism and Causal Condition, then there is a prima facie question: How can we ever know anything about metaphysical modality if we do not bear a causal connection to the truth-makers of modal statements?
The 41-year-old Irvine resident's musical journey, like many musicians, started early and bears a family connection.
