Sentence examples for rest upon a from inspiring English sources

He says such initiatives rest upon a myth that "technology is the bottleneck in developing countries".

My wrists rest upon a leather strap while my hands are clenched around iron bars.

The alteration is usually carried out by allowing the bob to rest upon a nut that can be screwed up or down the pendulum rod.

The importance of Wittgenstein to theology in the twentieth century is that he gave theologians permission to return to the Biblical God, in so far as he rejected the idea that belief needed to rest upon a philosophical foundation.

Ms. Dimmie maintained that she had composed a similar song in 1990, copyrighted it in 1991 and sent it to Ms. Carey's recording company, CBS Records. "Dimmie's principal accusations against defendants rest upon a series of tenuous inferences or assumptions," the judge said.

These latest egg freezing policies offered by employers rest upon a dangerous assumption that all women working for Facebook and Apple want to become mothers, and that they want to do so in a specific way – that is to say, by mothering at a particular age, when their career has reached a particular stage.

An implementation plan has yet to be finalized but much will rest upon an intervention into the electricity market.

To be of value to the scientific community, however, criticisms must rest upon an examination of the evidence.

These are not absolute pronouncements, however, but conclusions of the "ruling prudence" that is the "pleasant sister of natural law"; that is, they rest upon an empirical, pragmatic assessment of spouses' respective abilities and burdens.

In business, successful, sustainable practices rest upon an internal foundation, a mindset of emotional and mental perspectives, values and capacities.

Still, the reasons for this shocking verdict rest upon an important assumption that proves something different than the equation "talcum = ovarian cancer".