Sentence examples for upon a setting from inspiring English sources

I'd decided upon a setting - a brutalist housing estate - and one image (children playing games on a dome-shaped mound that they referred to as "the moon", a memory from my own childhood), but it wasn't until I chanced upon a newspaper article about the proposed demolition of the Robin Hood Gardens estate in east London that these ideas started to become - if you'll excuse the pun - concrete.

America was founded upon a set a principles, doctrines, ideas and ideals.

From the outset, the story's period (once upon a time), setting (quaint old village, possibly Dutch) and plot (highly unlikely) identify it as a fairy tale.

Building upon the generic conception a set of criterion for an engineering discipline is established.

Asked to design a Web site, Creek & River may call upon a set of engineers in Shanghai, where costs are lower, to build the technical architecture.

The basic idea of genetic algorithms is that entire classes of designs, strategies or artworks can be written down as depending upon a set of parameters.

The institutional Army has a certain, almost reflexive impulse in preparing for war, embedded in the Powell doctrine, which insists upon a set of criteria, including the application of overwhelming force.

Somehow this vibrant magazine was completely forgotten until a few years ago, when the distinguished cultural historian Neil Harris came upon a set of the magazine's run in the library of the University of Chicago.

Traders had already seized upon a set of economic projections released alongside the F.O.M.C. statement, which appeared to indicate that some members of the committee had slightly raised their interest-rate forecasts since their previous meeting.

The OECD member countries agreed upon a set of principles as guidelines for scientifically validating a QSAR model.

Instead Bentzen et al. [16] estimated the cost of treating KC conditional upon a set of demographic controls.