Sentence examples for kind upon from inspiring English sources

In 2001 Mr. Blair brought ridicule of a different kind upon the body by naming the first 15 so-called "people's peers".

Less than a century ago, the Supreme Court could still define a husband's right to exclusive sexual intercourse with his wife "a right of the highest kind, upon which the whole social order rests".

To protect their wealth in the event a future parliament might vote to increase taxes, the Barclays drafted a "memorandum of understanding" asking the Sark legislature to promise not to "impose or seek to impose any other or any new taxes, charges, licence fees or fiscal measures of whatsoever kind upon Brecqhou".

In actual terms, there probably were several of each kind upon each ship, working in shifts.

Ballets of this kind depend upon expressive dramatic gestures.

It's assault, as is force of any kind visited upon an unconsenting person.

From his yellow eyes she feels hatred of the purest kind shining upon her.

Richard was determined never again to suffer a humiliation of the kind inflicted upon him by the Appellants.

Brilliant interference colours may display variety or be predominantly of one kind, depending upon the relative thicknesses of layers and interlaminar spaces giving rise to the colours.

Yet as soon as one recalls these novels, it becomes difficult to imagine the precise ways in which they would have been different had they had to accommodate a mutilation of the kind visited upon the city on September 11.

I noticed that the fibres were a deep red, almost like raw tuna, and Spiegelman explained that this is a familiar property of slow-twitch muscle, the fat-burning, fatigue-resistant kind called upon during endurance training.