"has pertinence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is relevant to a certain topic, situation, or issue. For example: "Her research has pertinence to the current discussion about climate change."
That the work, about money and war, has pertinence to the news of the day goes without saying.
The story has pertinence because one of the teams involved in that tournament game of March 22 , 1992 Southwest Missouri State, will be facing Rutgers tonight.
His present Whitney survey, emphatically titled "Richard Artschwager!" arrives without such packaging and positioning, though there's no question that the artist has pertinence to things going on today.
How and why they did so is the subject of "The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in 17th-Century China," a compelling show at Asia Society — and a highlight of this year's Asia Week New York — that applies a magnifying glass to a familiar theme and reveals a weave of moral assertion and private emotion that has pertinence for new art today.
We have demonstrated that miR-143 and -145 are important regulators of plasticity of vascular smooth muscle cells, which has pertinence for the pathogenesis of vascular disease.
Unlike many flamenco singers, she is not content simply to sing old songs; the lyrics must have pertinence today.
It may be painful for Mets fans to recall, but it may have pertinence to tonight's opening game against the Cardinals in the National League Championship Series.
Many of them also have pertinence for UNICEF's intensified focus on equitable development and the rights of the most depived children and families.
Still, some medical scholars maintain that the experiment has some pertinence.
It does so at a time when the work in question has particular pertinence to what's being made today.
Estranged from her painter father at the age of eight, the making of his giant head has special pertinence.
