Sentence examples for upon the heads from inspiring English sources

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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.

Even if the invitation of the State to focus upon the heads of AFDC families is accepted, the minimum rationality of the maximum grant regulation is hard to discern.

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.

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".

This too seems to be a terrible warning of sorts, driven by politics, religion and fear of what an unknowable future might bring down upon the heads of the godless.

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Whose hand (patting) me upon the head would Sooth my early trials.

"Virginia's suicide and the horrible days which followed between her disappearance and the inquest had the effect of a blow both upon the head and the heart".

Coördinators are the game's field commanders, supervising the offense and defense and, depending upon the head coach's area of expertise, making the game plan.

Even more times, I've heard dirt wished upon the head of a TV presenter, minor celebrity or politician who has given offense.

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.

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