Sentence examples for Upon abandoning from inspiring English sources

Effectively increasing range, then, depended upon abandoning the multiple-calibre pattern of previous battleship armament in favour of a single-calibre armament.

There's much to analyze and lament in the new New York Times bombshell (so to speak) article by C.J. Chivers on the decade-long U.S. cover-up of injuries caused to soldiers who came upon abandoned chemical weapons remnants in Iraq.

In the Gulf Coast, he discovered unimaginable devastation - and came upon four abandoned beagle puppies.

Most visitors gaze upon these abandoned sites and dwell on what has been lost.

In the middle of a New England winter, a girl and her father come upon an abandoned baby.

After they come upon the abandoned Jolly Roger, Peter finds Hook's scarlet coat and puts it on.

In contrast to papal edicts, a DNA database can be challenged, tested, improved upon, or abandoned, if shown not to work fairly.

Karen L. Von Damm, a marine geochemist at the University of New Hampshire, was exploring the deep Atlantic more than a mile down when she came upon an abandoned toilet.

While wandering through the fields of rural Colorado, two eight-year-old boys, Travis Jamess Freedson-Jackson and Harrison Hays Wellfordrd), happen upon an abandoned police cruiser with the keys still in it.

— In the summer of 2010, a Navajo cattle rancher named Larry Gordy stumbled upon an abandoned uranium mine in the middle of his grazing land and figured he had better call in the feds.

As I reported last weekend in The Times, a cattle rancher stumbled upon an abandoned uranium mine in the summer of 2010 on his grazing land, about 60 miles east of the Grand Canyon on the Navajo reservation, and notified federal officials.