Sentence examples for it bore close from inspiring English sources

(Police say it bore close resemblance to a semi-automatic pistol).

One senior Western official in Kabul saw Mr. Khan's actions as the start of a wave of political positioning before the 2014 transition and said it bore close watching.

Some of these examples involved specific turns of phrase or passages that bore close resemblance to work published elsewhere.

Last year, for example, a court in Düsseldorf ruled that Samsung could not sell one of its Galaxy tablet devices in Germany because it bore too close a resemblance to the iPad 2 from Apple.

When Jonathan Kent's production of Tosca opened two years ago, there were mutterings that it bore too close a resemblance to its predecessor, the 1964 Franco Zeffirelli staging that served the Royal Opera for four decades.

Like many slogans, it doesn't bear close examination.

(Police say it bore a close resemblance to a semi-automatic pistol).

It bore a close resemblance to the style of the young men on the other side of the conflict.

"The pricket bat was not a strap-on prosthetic phallus, which might suggest an actual sex toy, nor did we consider that it bore any close resemblance to the anatomical shape of an actual penis.

1256 AD) and even though based on original observations and plant descriptions it bore a close resemblance to the earlier Greek, Roman and Arabic herbals.

At 64 (the reader is left to work out our hero's age, and frankly it doesn't always bear close scrutiny) Robert is a cold fish, or in his words "an habitué of loneliness" – the result, we gather, of some unforgettable romantic disappointment.