Sentence examples for upon the former from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Barnes soon came upon the former president.

Rooney appealed to supporters not to turn upon the former England captain.

He asked fellow Republicans not to view the nominee "based upon the former president's political manipulations".

And the weight Tony Blair placed upon the former premier's advice on military strategy is certainly intriguing.

Yet another scoffed at a proposal to bestow upon the former king the title of father of the nation.

He called upon the former home secretary, Lord Brittan, to "share his knowledge" about the fate of the Dickens's dossiers.

One might lose track of either a paper notebook or a 3.5-inch diskette from the early 1990s, but upon retrieval, the former will be easier to read.

You could also say that about Coughlin, cast him as nothing more than a coach foisted by Wellington Mara, the late owner, upon Ernie Accorsi, the former general manager.

Ms. Grish's fiction contenders were Mr. Mebus and Kyle Smith, who wrote the novel "Love Monkey," upon which the former CBS comedy show was based.

It's Bob Barker!" two women shrieked upon seeing the former president, Bill Clinton, in the distance, as he and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York marched hand-in-hand.

On Friday, a spokesman for Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, said she had asked the Egyptian government to provide "information regarding the legal basis upon which the former president and his presidential team are detained".