Third Energy, the company proposing to frack, insists it can pioneer a significantly different approach that bears little relation to that developed elsewhere; thousands of local residents are sceptical.
Human language shares these traits; like the weather, it changes in a dynamic way as seemingly insignificant factors are fed back into a loop of cause and effect in which the magnitude of the outcome bears no relation to that of the input values, a phenomenon which frequently produces unexpected results, the so-called butterfly effect of chaos theory.
According to French law, subsequent references to the Priory bear no legal relation to that of 1956 and no one, other than the original signatories, is entitled to use its name in an official capacity.
It bears the same relation to that in respect of which it is probable as the universal bears to the particular.
The tendency of this region to undergo rearrangement may bear relation to the evolution of this gene family.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
– bears such a relation to that; this kind of thing – don't you find it so?
I'm always puzzled by the paradox that you can walk around an exhibition in half an hour, and that bears no relation to the amount of work that went into it.
To do that, you need to look at the signal just after it has been created, when its size bears some relation to the number of holes that started it.
The first half of the book traces the paths of the five women who would meet their lonely ends amid the poison-ivy and sea-grass-choked marshes not far from the small Long Island community of Oak Beach, a place that bears no relation to the glamour of, say, the Hamptons.
Ditto the ritual of certain professions, for example the passing-the-port-type dinners that are a requirement to qualify as a barrister – a pointless anachronism that bears no relation to the pursuit of justice.
