Sentence examples for devolved upon from inspiring English sources

How insistently his ideas devolved upon himself.

A leading role devolved upon the bishop of Rome in questions of discipline, doctrine, and ecclesiastical and worship order.

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

When the head of a house, the paterfamilias, died, his position of headship devolved upon his heir or heirs.

Charles had left no children, and the throne devolved upon his only surviving sister, Ulrika Eleonora, and her husband, Frederick of Hesse-Kassel Frederickk I of Sweden).

Then the option of accepting or declining devolved upon the person or persons next in line under the will or the rules of intestacy.

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

A few of the more striking benefits devolving upon dwellers on certain other islands.

"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.