Sentence examples for had been set upon from inspiring English sources

Back in 1931, in Bologna, Toscanini had been set upon by Fascist thugs on his way to a performance.

How much complicity is there in reading a horrifying text?" Other academics were pleased that Goldsmith had been set upon.

They said Ms. Kercher's bruises indicated that she had been set upon by a second assailant with a second knife.

A Chinese student, the same man said, had been set upon by a gang and beaten quite badly, simply for taking a picture.

The group of sailors had been walking down Via Cavour as sightseers, and had been set upon by marchers, though they had done nothing to provoke the attack.

On Thursday, many news sites, including The Lede, reported that the ambassador's car had been set upon by protesters with eggs and tomatoes.

A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" Unable to move, he would have been set upon by some of Henry Tudor's men.

About a dozen have been set upon in the past month alone, including a Ukrainian freighter packed with tanks, antiaircraft guns and other heavy weaponry, which was brazenly seized in September.

What I heard, from speaker after speaker, was a heartfelt desire to turn away from the path of destruction, militarism and lies that America has been set upon after 9/11.

Gay people in Nigeria have been set upon by mobs.The simultaneous advance of gay rights in the developed world and its retreat in some other places throws up difficult dilemmas for the West.

In a case of art imitating art then disappearing whiskers first into a vortex of absurdity entirely of its own making, this reporter has been set upon by the Photoshop-happy lolcat lobby.