Sentence examples for touched upon something from inspiring English sources

No matter how vague, the mere mention of a manned flight touched upon something profound going on here: After a century and a half of singlemindedly catching up and competing with the West, Japan is asking itself what kind of country it wants to be.

At the same time as opponents of equal marriage set out their stall at Conservative party conference, Young has touched upon something that is incredibly common among LGBT people – internalised shame.

I think if you step away from any artistic endeavor without the sense that you've accomplished something fresh and touched upon something never touched upon -- then you're in trouble.

You touch upon something and leave it, or you must make circumlocutions".

Whether you agree with that assessment or not, or even if you think he is being somewhat self-serving with his warnings to promote his companies, he could be touching upon something important about corporate responsibility around the technology that startups and established companies alike should heed.

As I said at the UCLA event, [when] you touch upon something that is a trait of a person, that is universal.

Disputes with Renata Scotto, Joan Sutherland and Eva Marton are touched upon as well.

That's not much touched upon," said Mrs. Keith.

Most of the elements touched upon appear in Fig.  1.

But what Fairbairn has touched upon is something I've thought for a while: that face-showing has its place in small doses, but what is important is a prolific body of work, a good reputation and good people skills during a brief chat over coffee; that it is possible to rise to the top of the ladder while, like Fairbairn, leaving parties early to cuddle your children.

Second, if possible worlds are conceived as maximal representations then these supervenience principles (understood in the idiom of possible worlds) fail to articulate what it is for a representation to touch upon being, something non-representational: "For the idea that every truth depends on being is not the idea that every truth is entailed by propositions of a certain sort" (Merricks 2007: 86).