Sentence examples for upon serious from inspiring English sources
Their 1959 commission for the Economist offices, off St James's Street in central London, signalled that they were embarking upon serious construction.
After his return to Boston, he embarked upon serious historical studies, shunning a career in business or law because both occupations demanded more stamina than his delicate health and eyesight could allow.
Benjamin Disraeli's famous jape about lies and damned lies may be a long-standing calumny upon serious statisticians, but the statistics that encrust sport can be as misleading as they are absorbing; there were a few intriguing ones to conjure with, however, before Norwich City kicked off against Sunderland.
In the late Roman Empire the descendants and if there were no descendants, the ascendants (e.g., parents)—were given the right to a share in the estate (pars legitima), of which none of them could be deprived except upon serious cause stated in the will.
Said the two to the tutor, "Is it harder to toot, or To tutor two tooters to toot?" Other variations are written in French or Latin, some exploit the anomalies of English spelling, and still others use the form to make pithy observations upon serious philosophical concerns.
However, upon serious contemplation of this, it makes sense.
But Mr Bush, wittingly or not, had touched upon a serious point.
The hearing touched upon many serious concerns about Google's market power, but in the end it was just monopoly theater.
The judge said that because of the impending GMC investigation, "the trial will turn upon fundamentally serious issues going to the heart of the claimant's honesty and professional integrity".
Stark Investments, a Milwaukee-based hedge fund manager with some $14 billion in assets, issued an insistent statement targeted at the Post board: "Being a significant shareholder of Post, we are in support of the board of directors embarking upon a serious strategic alternatives process and trust that they will act in their fiduciary capacity.
How face-saving depends upon how serious you think the private equity firms are.
