Sentence examples for tried upon from inspiring English sources

After the hearing on Wednesday, Mr. Quijano praised the ruling, saying, "This case will be tried upon lawful evidence, not torture, not coercion".

Hastings was not a model soldier; as well as looting, he estimated that by the time he left the army he had "been charged and tried upon almost every offence known to military law".

As a long-time role gamer, I would find the following suggestion to be worth trying: Upon death, the "dead" player would temporarily become a nonplayer character, meaning that whatever happens to the player during a designated period does not result in rewards or increased skills.

(There's no getting away from it) so why even try?" Upon their meeting, Martin presented songs he wrote with Dr. Luke.

The strike was based upon conditions which the owners tried to place upon teams signing free agents, which would have effectively prevented such signing in the first place.

I have tried this process upon some of the above examples.

"We tried to touch upon things that were important to the novel," said Mr. Arteta.

His father tried to impress upon him the importance of the struggle.

For these associations, London has tried to inflict upon Adams a kind of media stigmata, a video bruise.

What if they had remained resolutely wild, refusing the domestic kinship humans tried to impose upon them?

But if there's one thing Dawkins has tried to impress upon us, it's that miracles don't exist.