Sentence examples for devolve upon from inspiring English sources

"In our dwellings … devolve upon us obligations and duties as solemn and responsible as those we owe to our children".

But nowhere does Shakespeare devolve upon the Clown the task of speaking the prologue of a heroic drama.

General Gates appears to have been a tool of rather than a party to the plot, expecting that the chief command would devolve upon himself.

Although laws governing intestate succession vary widely in different jurisdictions, they share the common principle that the estate should devolve upon persons standing in some kinship relation with the decedent.

To this Mesa responds that the board is not disinterested, because the directors are receiving a benefit from the tender of their own shares, which because of the Mesa exclusion, does not devolve upon all stockholders equally.

Arthur Sackler once wrote that "all health problems devolve upon the individual," and it was Purdue's position that OxyContin overdoses were a matter of individual responsibility, rather than the drug's addictive properties.

How insistently his ideas devolved upon himself.

And this duty is devolved upon the legislative department.

The claim thus devolved upon the second brother, Edmund de la Pole, earl of Suffolk (1472?–1472).

The command of the brigade then devolved upon Col. JAMES C. RICE, of the Forty-fourth New-York.

Primary responsibility for the enforcement of law devolves upon the courts and the administrative authorities.