Sentence examples for is thrust upon them from inspiring English sources

Authors don't lobby for the award; it is thrust upon them, sometimes without their even knowing they were contenders.

And it's basic psychology for them to trust a person they instinctively like over one who is thrust upon them.

I also have this great tenderness for the Tiresias character" – who first emerges in the very Tempestian guise of a disenchanted 15-year-old schoolboy – "for all the things that he, and she, has been, the duty that is thrust upon them and what they have to deal with".

How can you complain about the lack of motivation a student has, when literature is thrust upon them, when their opinions don't matter because they don't raise the grade, when the furthest creativity is able to go in the lesson is absent-mindedly doodling, when the choice to love English is a figment of the imagination, which isn't even possible, as the imagination is not needed for that A*.

6 Dio, Book LXXIV: "It is the part of sensible men neither to begin war nor yet to shrink from it when it is thrust upon them, but rather to grant pardon to the one who has voluntarily come to his senses, even though he has previously made a mistake.

But the kids aren't to know that when the black-and-grey glove is thrust upon them.

Many patients now feel it has been thrust upon them with little consultation.

After their longed-for adventures are thrust upon them, they become reluctant heroes.

But many governments seem to view this as an uncomfortable role that has been thrust upon them.

Protests were lodged by some Democratic National Committee leaders, particularly African-Americans, who complained that the choice was being thrust upon them.

"But once the burdens were thrust upon them," Ms. Chipaumire said of both women, "they accepted them with an elegance that seems — more than admirable — incredible".