Sentence examples for he visited upon from inspiring English sources
It's easy to imagine NewsCorp suffering the same fate that he visited upon the Bancrofts' Dow Jones — a sale brought on by weak economic performance and family disharmony.
"Gonzo" is a wonderfully entertaining chronicle of Hunter's wild ride, but it is also a detailed, painful account of his self-destructive immersions; the brutality he visited upon his wife, Sandy; and the anguish of a life that veered from inspired performance art to ruinous solipsism.
His will stated that he should be buried "in any place where stars shall ever shed their light, and sun still gild each rising morn_" This from the man who tyrannised his wife (Bosie abhorred the mental cruelty he visited upon her), and cared more about his horses and his dogs than he did his own children.
Any claim that one might have to Columbus having been a noble explorer worth honoring with a Federal holiday is eclipsed by the reality of the inhumanity he visited upon his fellow human beings.
If this is what Holdren would attempt to do to an errant fellow environmentalist, it's no surprise the fury he visits upon those who don't accept the environmental litany of doom, such as Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist.
Harry becomes one of its most redemptive figures: up against the wall and under the cosh, he still finds the generosity of spirit to right a wrong he'd visited upon a would-be protégé, Mickey Deans.
He was visited upon me once before.
Determined to punish the rebellious Texans, whom he viewed as pirates who deserved to be executed, Santa Anna mounted a campaign to demonstrate his power by exacting the same kind of retribution upon them that he had visited upon Zacatecas.
In court, Michael Mineo told the story of his troubled young life, reciting the wrongs he had committed against others, and those he said had been visited upon him.
Then my brother would be a very uncomfortable companion — then he would visit upon you his disappointment and discontent".
The sins of his underlings could not be visited upon him, he said.
