Sentence examples for upon the back of from inspiring English sources
We don't want to go back to the days of increasing the national debt upon the back of our children".
The island itself is said to rest upon the back of a giant tortoise, another symbol of eternal life.
The very earth was said to be borne upon the back of a whale, one whose writhings caused earthquakes and floods.
Despite Call for Resignation More straws landed upon the back of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel as Ehud Barak, the Minister of Defense called for him to step down pending the outcome of his corruption inquest.
Dispatches got hold of what in rock 'n' roll would be called artistes special requirements, every one of which Seb Coe and the bid team meekly complied with, including a demand that the IOC's top brass – Sepp Blatter and his mates – should at no time from the air-conditioned luxury of their vehicles have the indignity of gazing upon the back of a cabby's bare head.
(2) In persons in whom the angle at the periphery of the anterior chamber is acute i.e., in whom the outer rim of the iris is close to the wall of the eyeball the pressure of aqueous humour upon the back of the iris may force the outer part of the iris against the wall, so as to cover the outlet into the canal of Schlemm.
Upon reaching the back of the line he turned around and kept right on running, this time on the other side, trying to make contact with the few fans he had missed the first time around.
Rats riding upon the backs of other rats gallop up and down our street at night.
These "looters of the nation" were not the white magnates who became among the wealthiest people on earth upon the backs of the cheap "black gold" of native labor.
A spokesman for her opponent, George Amedore, a Republican assemblyman, said Mr. Amedore supported changes like increased disclosure but opposed any system in which the cost of campaigns was "forced upon the backs of taxpayers".
Clinton has made a career cosigning and building off of her husband's policies that inflamed the drug war and massively expanded the prison industrial complex – upon the backs of black and brown people – while likening black children to animals that need to be brought to heel in a New Hampshire speech in 1996.
