Sentence examples for upon the backs from inspiring English sources

Rats riding upon the backs of other rats gallop up and down our street at night.

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".

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.

And for 10 days, I was able to share this intimacy: I depended on the wood collected from these trees, the water that was siphoned from melting glaciers above me, the cabbage and potatoes grown in small family gardens, and the rice and lentils carried upon the backs of my Tamang hosts.

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.

It relies upon star power, upon the backs of men like Kershaw and Jansen.

The island itself is said to rest upon the back of a giant tortoise, another symbol of eternal life.

We don't want to go back to the days of increasing the national debt upon the back of our children".

Their strident hold upon the back roads pulls our morning drive, out to where Oak Woods Road crosses the river that they call Great Works.

The very earth was said to be borne upon the back of a whale, one whose writhings caused earthquakes and floods.

If anything, the distortion served to magnify how much weight James must feel upon the back that years ago was branded with the "Chosen 1" burden of incalculable expectation.