Sentence examples for known upon from inspiring English sources

"A single word indicative of my feelings — known upon the street," testified Robert W. Fitzhugh, a freeborn carpenter, "would have no doubt caused my death".

He was little known upon his nomination to the premiership in 2006, but has since cultivated immense influence during his eight-year rule, as well as roiling resentment over his divisive politics.

This morning, as I was rereading The New Yorker's coverage of Haiti's earthquake from a year ago, and having trouble deciding whether it felt like more or less than a year since it hit, I came to this sentence, in a post by Steve Coll, on other earthquakes he had known: Upon repetition, covering earthquakes gradually became less pure.

He points out that five of its ten management-board members will leave in the next year, opening the door to a change in strategy.Another German company in disarray is Daimler, as it will be known upon completing its sale of Chrysler, its American arm.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin January 11 , 2011This morning, as I was rereading The New Yorker's coverage of Haiti's earthquake from a year ago, and having trouble deciding whether it felt like more or less than a year since it hit, I came to this sentence, in a post by Steve Coll, on other earthquakes he had known: Upon repetition, covering earthquakes gradually became less pure.

[ Judith Light on the new season of 'Transparent' and returning to the stage in 'All the Ways to Say I Love You' ] Granted, he has been known upon occasion to cut his destined-to-self-destruct characters some slack, most notably in the Tony-nominated "reasons to be pretty" (on Broadway in 2009) and last year's morning-after rom-com "The Way We Get By".

It failed to show up on our room bill, however, so we let the concierge know upon check out.

Rather than start with the number of required classroom minutes or student-teacher ratio, Mr. Tokaz said, what students need to know upon graduation should be agreed upon first.

For those who chuckle over his collection of unspeakable howlers, Dr Henriksson's book offers a brief, self-administered quiz including the kind of information a student would be expected to know upon completion of a World History 101 survey course.

Fanny resisted his command that she submit her will to his, demanding once to know "upon what ground should you exercise this control over me.... Is it because you are more enlightened, more intellectual?

Many right-wing groups have seen the core standards as an opportunity to stir up some anxiety about big-government meddling, as if expectations for what students should know upon graduation tramples the toes of state and parental freedoms.