Sentence examples for upon falling from inspiring English sources

The baptism with the Holy Spirit is described in various places as the Spirit "poured out upon", "falling upon", "coming upon" people.

One that, upon falling through the net, put the Knicks ahead by 4 points and finally finished a Nuggets team that had seemed bulletproof most of the night.

Prinsloo lives out what he himself understands as the "most African of African stories" -- "a white man who had made a whole life and abandoned it upon falling in love... with a black woman".

A typical villager, upon falling ill, will first visit a local clinic – usually a concrete-floored, one- to two-room facility, equipped with little more than intravenous drips and a small pharmacy.

It doesn't – possibly because pay-per-view tends only to offer vampires, men who blow things up, young people with impossible skins intent upon falling in love and/or being murdered, and nurses/air hostesses/dancers with surprisingly repetitive personal lives.

In a paper published in 1985 in the Chicago Review entitled "Stanzas in Meditation: The Other Autobiography," Dydo writes, "What aroused Alice Toklas's jealousy was less the love affair itself than the discovery that, when Stein and Toklas had exchanged 'confessions' upon falling in love, Stein had not told about the relationship with May".

After all that, the initial trade that was agreed upon fell through.

Taoist myths state that Laozi was conceived when his mother gazed upon a falling star.

Subsequent embarrassment upon realizing that falling objects were acorns, not small rocks thrown by local bullies.

Your efforts are not falling upon deaf ears and the movement is about to get louder.

Heavens are not falling upon you.