Sentence examples for upon a former from inspiring English sources
The government called upon a former army general to hold a second hearing.
Procell had found one of the B.I.G. shirts in Tokyo several years ago, when he happened upon a former secondhand-clothing importer who was cleaning out his garage.
ON a humid Wednesday in June, an eclectic cross-section of the city's cool kids descended upon a former Catholic school in NoLIta for a new shopping Web site.
The comedian, accustomed to the humming machinery of Hollywood's maturity (in which he had become a fairly intermittent toiler), saw "Foolish Wives" as an old movie that was the victim of changing styles; he looked upon it as he might have looked upon a former Gibson Girl, now shapeless and wizened, who happened to stroll into his office in her once-trendy garb.
In 2011 in Toronto, I chanced upon a former monk named Dandapani at an event called Mastermind Talks.
#1 -- Make Your Bed (less than three minutes) In 2011 in Toronto, I chanced upon a former monk named Dandapani at an event called Mastermind Talks.
Reconciliation is not expected to occur after all conflicts, but only when former opponents share a valuable relationship, as for such partners the value of reinstating benefits afforded by the relationship should outweigh the risks of renewed aggression upon approaching a former opponent ['valuable relationships hypothesis'; 4,5 8].
That point was impressed upon me by a former Senate majority leader I much admire, Howard Baker.
Mr. Petty said that two-wheelers also played a role in advancing "the concept of mass production that was built upon by Henry Ford, a former bicycle mechanic".
The nationalist trend has been seized upon by Viktor Orban, a former prime minister and leader of Fidesz, this country's main opposition party.
"The mayor is getting close to a Churchillian moment, where Churchill is just being denounced and spat upon," says Charles Hill, a former career diplomat who teaches at Yale and leads Giuliani's foreign-policy group.
