Even so, while borders in the Sahel may appear on maps, they have little bearing on reality.
Only time will tell what films catch the jury's fancy, or whether their decisions - announced on 6 September - have a bearing on next year's Oscar race.
Samuel Alito, Mr Bush's new candidate, claims that the fact that he once advised the Reagan administration on how to overturn Roe will have no bearing on his behaviour on the court.
Rarely has such attention been more warranted than now, as President Obama prepares to select a new Supreme Court nominee whose views on national security and the law may have enormous bearing on the prospects for our victory in this War for the Free World.
MPs at Westminster can vote on health, education and Home Office policies that have no bearing on their constituents.
There are two little debates going on in the economics blogosphere at the moment, two which have a bearing on my own suppositions about the subject.
There is sometimes a tendency to dismiss President Ahmadinejad's views on the Holocaust as some kind of cranky eccentricity that may have little bearing on his policies.
But the coach stressed he did not expect that to have much bearing on Saturday's result.
The second step is learning everything we can that might have a bearing on the problem.
Still, it may have a bearing on how Mr Obama's treasury secretary is remembered.
The landmark ruling is likely to have a bearing on several other similar cases.
They point out that first-year salaries often have no bearing on earnings later in life.
So does any of this have any bearing on the independence referendum, due in autumn 2014?
He believes that Bristol's pregnancy should have no bearing on her mother's political career.
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Genta CEO Raymond Warrell says Affinitak's results have no bearing on the future for Genasense.
Since misdeeds of this sort have no bearing on official presidential conduct, they are not impeachable.
Whether that will have any bearing on what products they show off today is another question altogether.
The company that bears his name creates derivatives that have no bearing on the physical economy whatsoever.
Barack Obama said firmly that the news should not have any bearing on the campaign for president.
The failed test will have no bearing on Austria's Davis Cup victory over Great Britain in September.
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But the result would have no bearing on Israel's ability to adopt a forceful position against Iran's nuclear program.
The gradual destruction of Russia's institutions and democratic freedoms, however imperfect, seemed to have little bearing on the boom.
However, I honestly don't think any of that will have a bearing on what he achieves over the coming fortnight.
However, she said, it might have no bearing on longer-term chronic rejection, which reduces the life of the transplanted organ.
While this tour will have little bearing on Robinson's future plans, he feels the same cannot be said for the Pumas.
Further in the future looms another big challenge for his party, one that could have a bearing on Mrs Merkel's future.
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We know it's the economy, stupid, but is it growth or jobs that have most bearing on the way people vote?
But it may also reflect a belated appreciation that neither deficits nor debts will have much bearing on the euro's strength.
Carney insisted the court's ruling affects only a single case before the labor board and would have no bearing on Cordray's appointment.
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