Sentence examples for upon the works from inspiring English sources

The following account of those more than 40 years of Justinian's effective rule is based upon the works of Justinian's contemporary the historian Procopius.

He also penetrated and commented upon the works of the Areopagite; he was likewise acquainted with those of the Arabs, especially Avicenna; and he knew Augustine.

But I cannot look upon the works of the Rich Kids of Instagram without feeling pity for the eponymous Rich Kids.

And don't you envy the virgin observer who could look upon the works of M. Braque and company and go dizzy with alarm, bewilderment and exhilaration?

"Middlemarch," by George Eliot, has largely been immune to the kind of contemporary adaptation visited upon the works of other nineteenth-century writers.

In it, Lewes gave a survey of what he called "the field of female literature," touching down upon the works of George Sand, Mrs. Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë — and Jane Austen, whose novels he had been championing for years.

Increasingly, Ms. Bates said, she has found pressures from the business side encroaching upon the work.

As he sees it, British lives are built upon the work of the ONS.

It draws upon the work of John Dewey, Maria Montessori and many other noteworthy educational philosophers.

There are several ways that these pressures could be alleviated upon the working poor.

Developmentalism is another overall influence upon the work of the social sciences.