Sentence examples for it was set upon from inspiring English sources

At critical junctions, China likes to change driver as it continues its journey on the political road it was set upon in the 1950s.

It was set upon a bed of Israeli couscous and tomato-fennel salsa.

Before the convoy had traveled two miles, NATO officials said, it was set upon by an American Predator drone and a French warplane.

And turmoil there is, from the moment the team breaches the building, where it's set upon by hordes of criminals heeding the call of a murderous mastermind, Tama (Ray Sahetapy).

Nobody – bar maybe Charles Bronson – likes being set upon by police.

It was set there upon its mountain before life had emerged from the seas of Earth".

It initially ran for a week at The Other Place in Stratford before touring to the city in which it was set, Newcastle upon Tyne, and then playing at The Pit, a studio theatre in the Barbican Centre in London.

Events reached their deadly climax when a young black man, Meredith Hunter, taunted by the Angels until he produced a small pistol and waved it in the air, was set upon, knifed several times in the neck and shoulders and then beaten to death while the Stones played on unawares.

With Buenos Aires at its head, Argentina was set upon the road of stability and modernization.

And it would be hard to imagine a fully developed human being emerging from a story with this as its point of departure: "It was a Saturday afternoon and Jake was on his way back from the betting shop, having just lost five pounds on a horse called It Takes Time, when he was set upon by a group of longbowmen".

The convoy was set upon as it made its way to the London Palladium for the Royal Variety Performance.