Sentence examples for upon fact from inspiring English sources

Fact upon fact upon fact, but also a withering, sweeping sarcasm – the atrocities are "tolerated politely by Europe as usual".

His sense of humor vanishes; he piles fact upon fact like wet kindling; he forgets to have much to say.

It is a little remarked upon fact that more British passport holders live in other EU states than citizens of those states live here.

It is a little remarked upon fact that the Iraq War and the 2008 financial crisis are the responsibility of the late Bob Short.

Garner's work includes The Children's Bach (1984) and True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction (1996), which draws upon fact as well as fiction.

That McCarthy eventually took one small step toward the nearly universally agreed upon fact that vaccines save lives and don't cause autism is good news, but it may be too little too late: the anti-vaccination movement in the United States has helped to usher in outbreaks of preventable diseases in states coast to coast.

Our engagement — though he was a little wary of the word — was a private agreed-upon fact.

To get back beyond disputable history, to the last agreed-upon fact, means starting nearly all the way back – to the Paleozoic era, more than 250m years ago, when all the earth's land made up a supercontinent geologists call Pangaea.

An unvoiced definite article must be posited for proper names that do not carry one overtly, so that all proper names, under analysis, resemble those of Modern Greek (a less remarked-upon fact about Modern Greek is that the definite article also shows up between demonstrative and nominal in complex demonstratives).

Novels set in history ought to stay with the agreed-upon facts.

I use the phrase, which drives some academics crazy, "agreed-upon facts".