Sentence examples for swiftly upon from inspiring English sources

That's about all I can report lest a giant guillotine descend swiftly upon my neck, severing me from $2 million.

It is my own suspicion that both sportswriters and fans are increasingly resentful of the fame and adulation and immense wealth that are now bestowed so swiftly upon so many young professional athletes, and are envious of their privileged and apparently carefree style of living.

As it happens, the political implications of the ruling were swiftly pounced upon.

But it was swiftly leaped upon by people in England who did endorse such rules and were happy to talk about them.

In the case of Deng, state-affiliated newspapers swiftly seized upon the deviant "personal qualities" of "a minority of chengguan" officials as the true culprits.

When she had finished, Fitzgerald toyed with calling the novel "Nellie and Lisa", but was dissuaded by her editor Stuart Proffitt at Harper Collins in London, who offered "The Coming of Spring", a phrase that his author swiftly improved upon.

By the mid-1990s, though, a nationwide backlash rose against managed care, swiftly seized upon under the banner of "Patients' Bill of Rights," by political entrepreneurs including President Clinton, who, ironically, had earlier based his own health reform plan on managed care.

Fortunately the boob in question was too sweaty for him to get any purchase on, but nonetheless we were swiftly set upon by knuckle-cracking Med bullet-boys and expelled from the club with scary force. .

Since then, paid higher education has remained a political consensus in English politics (a Liberal Democrat pledge to abolish fees when in coalition partnership with the Conservatives was swiftly reneged upon), though not in Scotland, where remarkably, in the devolved parliament, the SNP administration still supports free tuition.

Blockbuster season will swiftly soon be upon us.

The chairman, Anatoly I. Pristavkin, a 69-year-old Soviet-era writer who heads the panel that makes recommendations on pardons to President Vladimir V. Putin, predicted at the Kremlin today that Mr. Pope's appeal, signed this morning at Lefortovo Prison, would be acted upon swiftly after the panel meets on Friday morning.