Sentence examples for upon inheriting from inspiring English sources
Longford gave the family seat, Tullynally Castle in Co Westmeath, to his son and heir in 1961 upon inheriting it.
Upon inheriting several million dollars he bought Mapplethorpe a studio loft on Bond Street and embarked on a frenzied shopping spree for photographs.
These days, pursuing a career in the arts in New York is often contingent upon inheriting the means to do so.
Upon inheriting their father's banking house of Drexel and Company in Philadelphia, Anthony and his brothers transformed it into an investment-banking concern.
It wasn't entirely clear what that left, at least on the revenue side of the ledger, but, upon inheriting the island and its maintenance costs, the city and the state created a joint nonprofit entity — the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation, or GIPEC — to run the place and figure it out.
Now his daughter is undertaking a task that even a Smithsonian curator might find daunting: researching and cataloging every item, in a kind of extreme version of the trial many people go through upon inheriting the contents of a parent's household.
A fine contrast is provided by prosperous neighbors, Dorothy and Toby Orchard, who have built upon inherited wealth to set up a sheep ranch and a spacious, comfortable home.
Although Darwin also at times defended aspects of Lamarck's view, he also clearly articulates and defends the view that evolutionary change results from natural selection acting upon inherited traits under variation.
Further, classic Drosophila genetics studies expose clear plasticity in the distribution of recombination rates across the genome as a result of biotic and abiotic factors [ 21, 23- 25] that would also act upon inherited inter-individual variation.
Risk of having the plug pulled ahead of schedule, the risk of your ex inheriting upon your death, your RRSP or your 401K not to mention your valuables, personal effects and life insurance.
Building upon ideas inherited from human studies of neural oscillators, we presented an explicitly computable expression for the Large neural oscillator, and we introduced its mechanical analog.
