Sentence examples for upon the whole from inspiring English sources

It weighs upon the whole country.

But I now realise this was a serious slur upon the whole lizard race.

The idea that a meaningful agreement can somehow be forced upon the whole international community is farcical.

Yet Hutton's assault upon the whole culture of the BBC and journalism is out of all proportion to their offences.

As a fellow scientist notes, "He's putting a lot of pressure on himself, and upon the whole field of nanotechnology.

Judgment upon the individual is thus at the same time judgment upon the whole, and vice versa.

This does not happen with Travellers, for whom the sins of the individual are often visited upon the whole group – especially if they chime with a stereotype.

In 1850 Charles Dickens commented in David Copperfield that it "was well known... that Yarmouth was, upon the whole, the finest place in the universe".

Now this assertion from Grandmother Gilmore made a different aspect upon the whole thing, it caused me to lose all thought of retreat.

They were, upon the whole, from the black day when they first entered Europe, the one great anti-human specimen of humanity.

Do George W. Bush's moral sensibilities cut deep enough to have steered him to reflect upon the whole situation with sufficient depth and care?