Sentence examples for upon the so-called from inspiring English sources

On Saturday night, 500-600 members of the Turkish diaspora in Belgium descended upon the so-called "white house" and reportedly tried to set fire to the building.

They also regulate molting and the associated metabolic functions by actions exerted upon the so-called Y-organ in the head; this organ so closely resembles the thoracic gland of insects that the two may share a common ancestry.

From the moment the Soviets launched Sputnik I into orbit around the Earth in 1957, everybody from Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson on down looked upon the so-called space race as just one thing: a military contest.

Before a peace dividend could be declared and built upon, the so-called war on terror began, and the invasion of Iraq and its chaotic aftermath, followed by the financial crisis shocked the country to its core.

Furthermore, he subscribed, in principle at least, to a physicalist thesis, according to which all science should be modelled upon the so-called exact sciences and all scientific knowledge should be reducible, ultimately, to statements made about the properties of the physical world.

Most recently, campaigners' anger has turned upon the so-called Drip (Data Retention and Investigatory Powers) bill in the UK, which will see internet and telephone companies forced to retain and store their customers' communications (and provide access to this data to police, government and up to 600 public bodies).

The molecules show a nonplanar conformation upon adsorption, the so-called saddle-shape deformation: one pair of opposing pyrroles is bent upward (α-pyr) with respect to the molecular plane, while the other pair is bent downward (κ-pyr) and the four phenyl meso-substituents are rotated.

Benthic epifauna live upon the seafloor or upon bottom objects; the so-called infauna live within the sediments of the seafloor.

In each of these settings, being called upon to answer the so-called "Proust questionnaire" is presented as an honor — a way of signalling that an artist's work stands above the humdrum promotional cycle.

Fie upon some of the so-called leaders of the Congress for falling into this pit.

With the summer upon us and the so-called Brexit vote behind us, perhaps you might have some time to read one of the terrific books published recently that touch on big themes in business, finance and technology.