Sentence examples for upon the wisdom from inspiring English sources
As a result, the solvency, security, and stability of Afghanistan depend upon the wisdom and generosity of the Congress of the United States.
As he wrote to his father in 1885, when he was only 22, it relied on "enterprise, energy and a certain startling originality, and not upon the wisdom of its political opinions or the lofty style of its editorials".
Drawing upon the wisdom and skill of his own teachers and his extensive personal studies, Friend has created a style that honors the past while forging ahead with innovative and brilliant principles of alignment and philosophical tenets.
He shows me the arresting words (he has scribbled them at the back of his script) that Samuel Beckett sent Pinter in a letter when asked to comment on Betrayal's ending (it depends upon the wisdom of hindsight – the action is played in reverse chronological order through the devastating seven-year affair): "That first last look in the shadows with all those in the light to come.
Last week, the former Republican presidential front-runner and moon colony-enthusiast called upon the wisdom of the Internet to come up with a term for an Internet-connected phone, apparently not knowing that they are already called "smartphones".
White House officials, university leaders, and Democratic legislators have joined the fray, roundly criticizing Smith for what they see as an attempt to impose his political judgment on a process that draws upon the wisdom of scientific experts.
"My father -- who, by the way, was once Secretary of the Treasury of this great land, under Teddy Roosevelt -- always impressed upon me the wisdom of obtaining expert advice before undertaking any project, of whatever size or scope.
On Columbia's relentless education of generations of students lies the edifice upon which the wisdom of Alma Maters' owl, and the perspective of The Curl rest.
He is called upon to spread the wisdom of Gronam Ox, the wisest man of the village council of sages, who earned the laurel by solving a sour-cream shortage.
But last week, in the wake of the Boston bombings, some of those who previously viewed Twitter as an indispensable news source began turning against the service upon discovering that the wisdom of crowds is, in fact, an adage not often applicable on the Internet.
Nevertheless, Descartes insists upon the practical benefits of the wisdom thereby achieved: one should consider "how to increase the natural light of his reason… in order that his intellect should show his will what decision it ought to make in each of life's contingencies" (AT X 361/CSM I 10).
