Sentence examples for upon a thing from inspiring English sources

This shows how much importance is placed upon the idea of what accords with one's nature or, in another formulation, "activity which is consequential upon a thing's nature".

Hegel allows some instruction in private property and contracts and explains to us how several people looking upon a "thing" as theirs would lead to the clash of one man's right with that of another man [ 4].

It used to have the flavor of once-upon-a-time, the thing I'll do when I'm 55 and have a nest egg.

Cognitive explanation relies, as Kant suggested, upon finding a thing's 'condition'condition

It is, he says, "the alibi of a man who did not know that he would be called upon for such a thing".

"Jazz dancing is ours," he said, "it's our American art form, but it's just not looked upon as such a thing".

"May we look upon life as a thing sacred beyond all possible human conception and may I look into your eyes fearlessly and honestly even when silver streaks blossom in your hair," her husband wrote.

The lexicographer John Cowell in 1607 gave an example of a negative implying also an affirmative, which I will put in updated English: "As if a man, asked if he did a thing upon such a day, or in such a place, deny that he did it in some specific manner, he implies an admission that nevertheless in some form or other he did it".

It is just like it is with a real guitar: it hurt at first, but after a while you will be playing on hour upon hours without noticing a thing.

While wandering the woods in Northern Georgia, two of them happened upon a dead thing that was neither human nor ape.

I can say that I am a "person of Faith" because I know faith to be a fact, something experienced and not a wish upon a star thing of no substance.