Sentence examples for gave upon from inspiring English sources

Sally stood at the darkened thermal-glass window that gave upon the lightless Atlantic.

In a 2008 lecture she gave upon receiving a top international human rights award, Cercavschi said she was threatened with never seeing her children again if she persisted in teaching the Romanian language.

In the lecture he gave upon receiving his Nobel, he said modestly, "I tend to regard the Coase theorem as a stepping stone on the way to an analysis of an economy with positive transaction costs".

The material in chapter 19 follows seamlessly on chapter 18: the description of the speeches that Pythagoras gave upon his arrival in Croton in chapter 18 is followed in chapter 19 by an account of the disciples that he gained as the result of those speeches and a discussion of what he taught these disciples.

The speech that Jason gave upon winning the award was written for him by his older brother.

Like the response he gave upon hearing that a colleague was about to get married for a second time.

However, death is not the only response that a T cell can give upon too strong stimulation.

These are the models we are given upon which to model our own behaviour – is it any wonder that girls feel they must compete with one another?

It was an ordinary, 40-minute flight from Oslo to Trondheim that I spent preparing for a speech I was to give upon landing.

The tour meets on Saturday at 2 45 and Sunday at 2 p.m.; the meeting place will be given upon reservations for the tour, sponsored by NYC Discovery Tours.

Another redoubtable landlady, Miss Abbey Potterson of the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters in Limehouse (giving upon the river), reigns "supreme upon her throne, the Bar", and is more than a match for the villainous Rogue Riderhood.