Sentence examples for descent upon from inspiring English sources

The American Outlaws were beginning their their descent upon BC Place Stadium.

It was some time before he learned anything about Franklin, but in the process he did uncover the local version of Frobisher's descent upon the shore.

Today, prosecutors said the Pagans' descent upon the Vanderbilt was the latest move in a longstanding feud with the Hells Angels.

The obvious weakness of the Mughal Empire invited Nādir Shah's descent upon the plains of northern India for plunder and spoil.

But David Cameron's descent upon Strasbourg on Wednesday is not to deliver an ultimatum so much as to cajole the other 46 members of the Council of Europe into far-reaching reforms.

Despite his unwavering support for Brown after Harpers Ferry, Higginson believed that the raid had ended in disaster because its leader had impulsively abandoned "the more deliberate and wholly practicable plans of his earlier days" in favor of a hasty "descent upon Harper's Ferry".

With a base at Claridge's hotel in central London and making descents upon the East Midlands in a chauffeur-driven Mercedes, he went to work on Nottinghamshire NUM men, one of whom later became his butler.

The pirates had seized the opportunity of a relative power vacuum and had not only strangled shipping lanes but had plundered many cities on the coasts of Greece and Asia, and had even made descents upon Italy itself.

After Soulor came another epic descent, mile upon mile of fast looping roads and beautiful high Pyrenean villages.

Yet he also helped begin its descent by playing upon chauvinist Muslim fears for political gain.

Unlike the SpaceX Dragon that can return items to Earth, the Cygnus is designed to burn up upon descent.