Sentence examples for upon a fast from inspiring English sources

A passage in Animal's People, shortlisted for the last year's Booker, contains a parallel scene in which three characters embark upon a "fast unto death" in order to persuade government officials to ditch a treacherous deal with the company responsible for the disaster.

The proposed TCFC model is then implemented into a Godunov-type method based upon a fast, exact Riemann solver.

A transmission-mode ultrasonic system for tomographic imaging of gas/liquid flow was designed based upon a fast binary back-projection image reconstruction algorithm.

Upon herbivory a fast V m depolarization is known to affect the whole damaged leaf, whereas calcium, potassium, ROS and NO responses are limited to the wounded zones.

However, their mechanical strength drops dramatically upon irradiation to a fast neutron fluence of 1 × 1022 m−2 (E > 0.1 MeV), i.e. the ITER design fluence.

Upon completing a fast-paced 90 days foundational program, I was relocated to my first official assignment in Kalamazoo, Michigan, as a District Sales Manager".

Again, not everybody can rely upon anything even approaching a fast Internet connection.

The feed strategies are categorized upon a relatively fast and slow cycling of the liquid feed.

Groh talked to some of his key veterans as early as spring minicamp to impress upon them the importance of a fast start this season.

Real estate agents can't get no respect, since most of us have been preyed upon at least once by a fast talker trying to sell us location, location, location on a murderous highway.

The ship was built in 1905 by Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle upon Tyne as the Viking, a fast passenger ferry for the Isle of Man Steam Packet.