Sentence examples for upon a mass from inspiring English sources

"The peace of the earth breathed all around me," the wanderer says after coming upon a mass grave outside a destroyed village.

American military officials said that, "acting on a tip," American soldiers and Iraqi police officers had stumbled upon a mass grave containing 37 bodies in Muqdadiya, an area of palm orchards northeast of Baquba.

This litany of cultural milestones almost gets boring, but then, among the luxuriant beards on the stone statues from the first Persian empire, you stumble upon a mass of curly, real hair.

Once these thresholds are met, MING expands upon a mass balance and thermodynamic approach proposed by McKinley et al. [FEMS Microbiol.

In case we assumed increasing returns to scale, say if Crusoe embarked upon a mass production movement and hence faced decreasing costs, the PPF would be convex to the origin.

This limited role of government officials was a departure from the earlier Tang dynasty (618 907), when the government strictly regulated commercial markets and local affairs; now the government withdrew heavily from regulating commerce and relied upon a mass of local gentry to perform necessary duties in their communities.

"The issue was whether or not he should have stopped upon seeing a mass on the tracks," Mr. Smiley said.

The modern standard model for Type Ia supernovae explosions is founded on a proposal by Whelan and Iben in 1973, and is based upon a mass-transfer scenario to a degenerate companion star.

This method capitalizes on the fact that polyubiquitin chains have multiple N-termini, which, upon fragmentation in a mass spectrometer, create an excess of N-terminal ubiquitin fragment ion current.

On the contrary, there's clearly a constituency upon which a mass struggle against the racist right can be based.

We were compressed together, limbs entangled, heads upon laps, a mass so dense there was scarcely room for motion.