Sentence examples for be put upon from inspiring English sources

Cost should not be put upon this knowledge.

The projected surplus, it must be remembered, is not all that large compared with the demands that will be put upon it.

It became clearer to me as I read on, and encountered the spin that was going to be put upon these findings.

"I mustn't bring the government down," he later told his diary in the wake of public spending cuts, "because if I do the responsibility will be put upon the left".

Profile of Frederic William Goudy who is consider one of the greatest type-designers in the world, and all those who take joy in beautiful books are deeply in his debt that no price can be put upon their owings.

By Milton MacKaye The New Yorker, January 14 , 1933P. 20 Profile of Frederic William Goudy who is consider one of the greatest type-designers in the world, and all those who take joy in beautiful books are deeply in his debt that no price can be put upon their owings.

Too much pressure is put upon students and school systems to prepare for and achieve on standardized tests.

"People are really angry and my sense is they're angry at Republicans, independents and Democrats because they feel that they're put upon by the ruling class," Gidwitz said.

Intense pressure is put upon students (and their parents) to create a "Mission Project" that glorifies the era and glosses over both Spanish and Mexican exploitation of Indians, as well as enslavement of those same Indians during U.S. rule.

A price is put upon our only asset, our labor".

The Legation Quarter has been put upon siege basis.