Sentence examples for to count upon from inspiring English sources

The president's advisers said they took Mr. Kerry's focus on black voters as a sign that he was worried about mobilizing a sector of the vote he should be able to count upon.

Independents and moderates may admire that attitude, but it is a cold bath to cause-driven activists, who, in another time, would have been able to count upon harmonizing their efforts with those of the national Republican campaign.

Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.... Some few men will think and work and feel as we have done, and I venture to count upon such continuators, placed irregularly throughout the centuries, and upon this kind of intermittent immortality.

If not for the rain, Wise may have been the Game 7 starter, and Johnson would have had to count upon Reggie Cleveland (4.43 regular season E.R.A ., Diego Segui (4.83) or Jim Burton, a 25-year-old rookie who pitched very well during the season, to shut down the Big Red Machine.

That's largely because Ramirez was so frequently injured it became almost impossible to count upon him.

She comes to a crescendo while arguing that the next time Syriza gets bullied by the Troika, they ought to be able to count upon the working classes of all the EU nation-states.

Although George has spent more summers on Cooper Island than he often cares to count, he seems, upon first meeting, an unlikely candidate for the solitary hardships of fieldwork in the high Arctic.

clause is intended to include each of the reasons in a long chain of reasoning leading to the belief to count as reasons upon which the belief is based.

He was always to be counted upon to be supportive of the aims and purposes of the Society.

I tried to learn whether life without consciousness might be preferable to consciousness without life; but to calculate the answers he needed to count several secret variables simultaneously upon his misty fingers, and soon lost track of where he had started.

I tried to learn whether life without consciousness might be preferable to consciousness without life; but to calculate the answers he needed to count several secret variables simultaneously upon his misty fingers and soon lost track of where he had started.