Sentence examples for visited upon a from inspiring English sources
He called the crime an "unspeakable act" visited upon a "normal family".
Our thoughts are also with those who are recovering". He continued: "The events of the past few days have unfortunately been visited upon a nation that is hard at work addressing the persistent challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality.
This is the fate soon to be visited upon a certain number of innocent Iraqi civilians (no one knows how many) if the president goes ahead with the war he has pursued so relentlessly.
"Beersheba", a simple revenge story of retribution visited upon a lout who once engaged in bad behaviour, is a perfect example of the futility of trying to breathe life into a cliché.
The more limited, perhaps more rigorous, sense refers to a system of prepublication control; the broader sense includes, in addition, sanctions visited upon a publisher after publication (whether or not the publication has previously been "approved").
In the wilds of New Hampshire one formative summer, a series of character-building — or breaking — events is visited upon a group of young men and women whose paths cross tragically on the slopes of Cascom Mountain.
It's assault, as is force of any kind visited upon an unconsenting person.
It is the damning of an entire art, the vengeance visited upon an entire people – the murdering of their very urge to create, their desire for beauty and truth.
Esprit can bring to mind big-picture questions about blind fortune or the mystery of God's plan — something seemingly terrible has been visited upon an innocent child.
"The vast machinery of modern medicine, which can be heroically invoked to save a premature baby, when visited upon an equally vulnerable and failing great-grandmother, may not save her life so much as torturously and inhumanely complicate her dying," he additionally stated in his article, "Slow Medicine".
Justinian's legislation dealt with almost every aspect of the Christian life: entrance into it by conversion and baptism, administration of the sacraments that marked its several stages, proper conduct of the laity to avoid the wrath that God would surely visit upon a sinful people, and the standards to be followed by those who lived the particularly holy life of the secular or monastic clergy.
