Sentence examples for giving upon from inspiring English sources

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.

The lobby group is headed by Nick Calio, a veteran of both Bush administrations, who expressed an interest in increasing the airline industry's political giving upon taking the helm in 2010.

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

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

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.

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".

Yet I can't help but juxtapose it to the message given upon admission to community college students: do something practical; declare a career major right away; the liberal arts won't prepare you for a job.

About a year after Mr. Storch arrived at Toys R UsUs, a company newsletter profiled three senior executives — two of whom have since left — and repeated some words of advice the chief executive had given upon joining.