Sentence examples for upon holding from inspiring English sources

All very well for her to resolve upon holding up the action.

That the descendants of an imperious race who had imposed serfdom upon their Saxon underlings would push the Union toward secession over an insistence upon holding slaves was unsurprising, given what one writer, H. D. Kitchell, had called, in 1850, "The Norman pride, his scorn of labor, his high blood, despotic temper, and aristocratic temper".

In both the show's stringently meritocratic world and in our only nominally meritocratic one, though, the results are eerily similar: a segregated society, governed by a Gospel of Success that depends upon holding many people back as much as allowing a few to thrive.

This year, I'm thinking of sending a gift certificate of tuition to a certain child I know who opened a carefully selected gift from me on Christmas and upon holding the blouse up said, "My God, I would NEVER wear anything this color!" I wouldn't expect a thank-you note.

Upon holding the apple it decided it was in a giving mood by saying, "Please take this," handing the apple over.

The effect is a large one: upon holding for th = 104 s the coefficient of static friction for both materials increases by about a factor of three, from μs = 0.5 to μs = 1.4.

We were at the Library of Congress and the shelves we gazed upon held many of the volumes, in Latin, French, Italian and English, once owned by Thomas Jefferson Jeffersonn sold his personal library to Congress in 1814 to rebuild the nation's collection after the British burned parts of the Capital).

Because while a new design is nice to gaze upon and hold, it's what my mom always said about looks: It's what's on the inside that counts.

The white cop, Terry Quinn, came upon Wilson holding another man at gunpoint.

When they reached a paved courtyard behind the buildings, he forced himself upon her, holding her head with the same hand that held the gun, she said.

A not uncommon experience is a mother who, upon first holding her newborn, realizes that it is the first baby she has ever held.