Sentence examples for practised upon from inspiring English sources

This could look like we're being practised upon, dupes of unconscionable skill.

This is particularly the case when lumping is practised upon the time-scales of reaction dynamics.

Michael Haneke's new movie is an Americanised replica-remake of his 1997 cult shocker Funny Games: just as before, it's an icy ordeal of sadism, a macabre vivisectional experiment in pure cruelty, practised upon a bland upper-middle-class family - two parents, tousle-haired kid, adorable dog - which thinks itself safe in its prosperous cocoon.

On 15 January, Tobias Smollett published a disparaging twenty-eight-page pamphlet entitled A Faithful Narrative of the base and inhuman Arts that were lately practised upon the Brain of Habbakuk Hilding, Justice, Dealer and Chapman, who now lies at his own House in Covent-Garden, in a deplorable State of Lunacy; a dreadful Monument of false Friendship and Delusion.

10 It was promoted by Dr Oz, prominent cardiothoracic surgeon, host of the Dr Oz Show and frequent Oprah guest, as his 'ultimate complementary and alternative medicine therapy for 2010.' 11 However, while it is commonly practised, there is no agreed-upon theory for how reiki might work, and its mechanism of action is still unknown.

Order - the convenience of orderliness is the imposition of squeamishness upon reality, practised by the sort of control freaks whose imaginative shortfall leads towards dreary stuff like certainty and guilt.

It was only fraudulent conduct in obtaining transportation at less rates than others, which was denounced by the act, and the imposition aimed at was principally such as might be practised by the shippers upon the carriers in order to procure the preference.

This unprecedented move may be explained by the fact that a significant portion of the tribe still practised Christianity, or by pressure upon their grazing lands by tribes from the south, but the primary goal of the move was to escape from Hamdanid authority and taxation.

These were two brothers living upon the earth who practised every kind of knavery.

Mr. Crowley complained that the book imputed that he practised "black magic" and he said this was a libel upon him.

Environmental sensitivity evaluation is a basis upon which the concept of environmentally sensitive areas (ESAs) can be practised in order to protect the environment, regulate development activities and promote sustainable land use planning.