Sentence examples for earth upon which from inspiring English sources

The earth upon which the Assad castle is built is beginning, ominously, to tremble.

These principles do not seek to reduce organisational behaviour to biology; rather, they suggest a set of behaviours and qualities that simply echo the law of the system – Earth – upon which our lives and our businesses depend.

In one garden, after the meadows are cut in summer, I am going to rake an area until it exposes enough bare earth upon which to throw the seed.

It is clear that the gigantic scale of the human enterprise is now beginning to overwhelm the natural wealth of the Earth upon which all life, including ours, ultimately depends.

They have respect for the earth upon which we all must live and which provides us with food and water.

For the ancient Greeks, the grave marker (a mound of earth or a stone) was the earth altar upon which sacrifices to the dead were made and, like other earth altars, it was called the omphalos, "the navel" of the earth i.e., the central point from which terrestrial life originated.

Heaven, which is not earth, and earth, which is not heaven.

In Mommsen's view it was important that the ancients should come down to earth from the Olympian heights upon which they appeared to the mass of the public.

Each Hindu temple is centred on a shrine, symbolizing heaven upon earth, which is crowned by a roof tower representing the cosmic Indian mountain, Meru, conceived as the hub of creation.

It opens with a couplet that with precision and poeticism describes the earth and the "drifting continental shelf" upon which we toil.

Deforestation threatens the earth's biodiversity and the ecosystem services upon which humans depend.