Sentence examples for has been put upon from inspiring English sources

The Legation Quarter has been put upon siege basis.

"We are called upon to right a great injustice, a great wrong that has been put upon the American people".

"Nothing has been more satisfactory in the course of the war", opined the Economist magazine on 12 June 1915", "than the steady refusal of Lord Kitchener to destroy the grand moral force of voluntary service by acceding to the social and newspaper pressure which has been put upon him to begin compulsion".

Along with 3 billion other viewers around the world, I plan to tune in for the month-long World Cup to see whether the 22-year old Neymar can withstand the colossal pressure that has been put upon his shoulders to deliver a win for team Brazil.

"But I don't feel that I've been put upon".

I saw that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had shrunk to skin and bone.

Thermosensitive liposomes have been put forward as a strategy to improve upon the limited tumor drug availability associated with conventional non-thermosensitive liposomes.