Sentence examples for upon being given from inspiring English sources

Upon being given the privilege of holding this rusty grail, I leaned over to the water cooler, filled it and drank, to the consternation of assembled staff members.

Call it self-improvement upon being given an opportunity; that's something he's working on in his personal life, too.

Upon being given out, Haynes who was ignorant of the law regarding handling the ball argued with the umpire about the dismissal.

What is curious though, is that a man, upon being given explicit sexual instructions ("That feels so good," or "Don't Stop") would think the best course of action is to ignore those instructions.

The abbey's power grew upon being given jurisdiction over the growing town in 1028 and the creation in 1044, of the geographical and political area of the Liberty of Saint Edmund, established by Edward the Confessor, which remained a separate jurisdiction under the control of the abbot of Bury St Edmunds Abbey until the dissolution of the monasteries.

"In fact, she was upset because no one in the Church was calling her or her family, going so far as to drag her daughter into the Church to insist upon being given special treatment," the organization said in a statement to The Times.

The trouble with her statements, which echo those of other officials, is that they gloss over the question of whether families who were foreclosed upon were given a fair shot at keeping their homes.

Carnap's general recipe for avoiding undue commitments (while pursuing his investigations of various language forms, including the intensional ones Quine frowned upon) was given in terms of the distinction between so-called internal and external questions (1950a).

One element he insisted upon was giving concertgoers quiet places so they can recharge.

The majority placed emphasis upon not being given information about the drug regimen and its potential side effects.

Thus, anti-A172 antibodies can be protective or detrimental, depending upon the dose being given.