Sentence examples for upon their shoulders from inspiring English sources

Immense responsibility lies upon their shoulders.

Parents would hoist their children upon their shoulders.

They felt upon their shoulders the weight of the entire world".

Only then would the hosts be able to alleviate some of the pressure heaped upon their shoulders.

Not many pillars of literature who held the century past upon their shoulders lived this far into the 21st.

Upon their shoulders lies the burden of helping those children cope with memories of the disaster, loss of security, family or friends, and fear of the future.

It heaps too many implausibilities upon their trembling shoulders.

The crowd around the television screens was so dense that movement was nearly impossible, and here and there, in a vast assemblage that filled the Meadow almost as far as the eye could see, small children, their eyes blinking with sleep and wonderment, were hoisted upon their fathers' shoulders.

Many daughters were perched upon their fathers' shoulders.

Weakness: As age catches up with them, it'll get harder for Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson to get into racing shape, and it's upon their broad shoulders that this franchise rests.

Reacher is, of course, in a long line of American outcast heroes (how does the Coventry-born ex-TV-man author know so much about this?) who abjure emotional ties, head out into the wilderness and take upon their own broad shoulders the primitive moral conscience of the tribe.