Sentence examples for rested upon from inspiring English sources

It rested upon the land.

Bear up! Responsibility rested upon the individual.

"Edward... rested upon a $2,500 oversize Legends eiderdown pillow".

The economies of the principalities rested upon agriculture.

It wore a crown and rested upon a large throne.

SOAS, says Brown, was a college whose standing and ethos rested upon sound empirical study.

His success rested upon not underestimating the taste, or the intelligence, of the average American consumer.

The stability of postwar Europe rested upon the accomplishments of Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler.

Even more importantly, it rested upon the trade unions, the most significant participatory organisations Australia has ever known.

Some teachers sought to imbue us with the notion that America's future rested upon our often-scrawny shoulders.

After inspecting the achievement, President Lincoln said, "I have seen the most remarkable structure that human eyes ever rested upon".