Sentence examples for Upon children from inspiring English sources

Once again, it is the so-called adults who have brought down these suspicions upon children.

Baby P... My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society".

Given the emotional impact such ideas potentially have upon children and youth, it appears to me highly desirable that some form of public action is taken.

He linked GTA to a number of violent crimes, calling GTA IV 'the gravest assault upon children in this country since polio'.

By Joshua Rothman April 3, 2012 If you think that "The Hunger Games" is about the cruelties adults inflict upon children, then you should try reading Dostoevsky.

But recruiters continue to prey upon children because they are easy targets, easily manipulated, and – significantly – because they rarely face any sanctions.

If you think that "The Hunger Games" is about the cruelties adults inflict upon children, then you should try reading Dostoevsky.

But children who are the fruit of a married couple should not (and their families should not) have economic benefits bestowed upon them by the government that are not equally bestowed upon children whose parents are not married.

I know someone who objects to stopping just because children are hungry (it's a category error: she was looking upon children as small, over-indulged adults. Parents look at them more as cars, whose fuel requirements are non-negotiable).

It was published in April 1943, and Mary Poppins author PL Travers predicted in the New York Herald Tribune that it would "shine upon children with a sideways gleam" and "strike them in some place that is not the mind".

Clarke said there was a "sustained and coordinated agenda to impose upon children in a number of Birmingham schools the segregationist attitudes and practices of a hardline and politicised strain of Sunni Islam".