Sentence examples for overlaid upon from inspiring English sources
Their Christianity, however, is generally overlaid upon the native religion.
It has overlaid upon the rules of chess still more complexities of strategy, variety, and difficulty.
The pope's tentative overtures towards feminism are exciting, but they're meaningless if simply overlaid upon existing unequal foundations that he makes no attempt to change.
"House prices too have revived over recent months, although much of this reflects the impact of a modest but more broadly based pick-up, overlaid upon what is clearly a resurgent London market.
An utterly bizarre sexual undercurrent throughout, way beyond ordinary 90s smut, includes one memorable scene in which lead actress Kate Beckinsale, 19 at the time, is reflected fully naked in the chessboard, her breasts literally overlaid upon the pieces.
It has been a charged and burdened time -- the D-Day commemorations, the death of a president, the daily carnage in Iraq, the pictures from Abu Ghraib prison, a July 4 just over the horizon -- the sublime and the squalid, the decent and the desperate in American life so overlaid upon one another that it is hard to reconcile the high rhetoric of one moment with the terrible reality of the other.
The stairway walls might once have been painted a pinkish beige, but they had been overlaid with layer upon layer of brownish stuff scattered on the surface, something indescribable and horrible.
The delights and disappointments of his career can be overlaid almost perfectly upon India's: the golden promise of the early nineteen-nineties, the soaring successes later that decade and early in the two-thousands, the consolidation and the insecurities thereafter, and the distressing wane of faculties in the past few years.
The characteristic of translation is that it has a basic process (ribosome movement on mRNA) upon which is overlaid various additional regulatory and other complexities.
Jennifer Gardiner's geometric abstractions start with paint but are overlaid in a pattern formed by grid upon grid upon grid of fine colored thread.
The Omic data were overlaid onto customized metabolic pathway maps based upon annotated maps located at KEGG [ 50], PlantCyc [ 51], and VitisCyc [ 52].
