Sentence examples for upon the head of from inspiring English sources

His book inflicts a plague of vipers upon the head of Bill Peterson, the Ada district attorney who led both these investigations and is still in office.

NEW ORLEANS — One week after the Super Bowl, citizens of this enchanting and peculiar city will place a crown upon the head of Saints quarterback Drew Brees.

And the more spite and vituperation poured upon the head of Gilligan and the BBC will only increase their estrangement from a government increasingly seen as bullying, dissembling and authoritarian.

The guilty laid their hands upon the head of the sacrificial animal (an unblemished bullock or goat), thereby identifying themselves with the victim, making it their representative (but not their substitute, for their sins were not transferred to the victim).

From this position at the top of the T, all the guns of the fleet could fire upon the head of the enemy column, while only the first enemy ships could return fire.

The decade before the war saw his opposition to slavery and to the federal government reach its peak: The Liberator denounced the Compromise of 1850, condemned the Kansas-Nebraska Act, damned the Dred Scott decision, and hailed John Brown's raid as "God's method of dealing retribution upon the head of the tyrant".

The malposition of the head produced a failure of development of the cartilaginous anlage for that portion of the anterior margin of the ilium pressed upon by the head of the femur.

Who better to rain misery upon the heads of millions of Americans?

The day must come when the castles of this materialistic civilization will be laid low upon the heads of their inhabitants.

To another New York congressman, James W. Wadsworth, Social Security represented "a power so vast" that it threatened to "pull the pillars of the temple down upon the heads of our descendants".

Gerald Girardi's father was also a bricklayer, a stern and exacting worker who was known to sometimes fling mortar down from his ladder upon the heads of incompetent helpers.