Sentence examples for has set upon from inspiring English sources

'Depriving a person of opportunities or of the ability to use them is', as Raz says, 'a way of causing him harm.' Again 'frustrating [a person's] pursuit of projects and relationships he has set upon' can cause harm (Raz 1986, p. 413).

Alan and Annette's son has set upon Michael and Veronica's with a stick, knocking out two of his teeth.

With the help of his fans, who banded together to raise nearly thirty thousand dollars to help with his medical bills, he can work again, and has set upon making up for lost time, and gigs.

And while they certainly deserve praise for addressing their personnel needs, delivering the goods, it is difficult to comment on the Yankees with the baseball blinders on, without acknowledging that in the world of economic pain that has set upon the country, their audacity and gluttony tend to make the stomach feel queasy.

Ambition and opportunity have collided and the kid in front of him is proposing a solution to that problem that Thiel has set upon trying to solve: Peter should create a shell company to hire former investigative reporters and lawyers to find causes of action against Gawker.

Videos showed clearly that Morsi supporters had set upon the peaceful sit-in.

Is there not something of this in the glee with which many have set upon Trump's ignorance?

By the time we first met, last winter, Kejriwal had set upon the tedious work of building a new party.

Such killers, Mr. Ressler said, are usually devoid of hope and have set upon an irreversible course of self-destruction.

There is an array of different powerful and heavily armed groups who have set upon Mosul and they have conflicting agendas and ambitions.

I also know that what the cigarette empires, through the media, have set upon our pop culture plates can lure people toward addiction.