Sentence examples for was laid upon from inspiring English sources

No siege was laid upon our shorelines.

They were "paralysed with fear" and the burden was "laid upon the resources of the government of this nation".

Her body shook so hard it rattled the aluminum slab she was laid upon, and there was an unbearable pressure inside her as the surgeon pushed the knife in.

Great emphasis was laid upon the further expansion of evening and correspondence education, both at the level of secondary specialized education and at the level of the universities and other higher institutes.

The incrustation was laid upon wood, stone, gold, shell, pottery, and possibly leather and native paper and was held in place by a tenacious vegetal pitch or gum or a kind of cement.

In later work in stratificational grammar, the notion that emes are composed of ons was abandoned, and greater emphasis was laid upon the fact that emes are points, or positions, in a relational network; they are connected to other points in the network but have themselves no internal structure.

"The hand of God is laid upon the nations," he said.

He sits and waits for grief to be laid upon him.

However, I don't feel that all the blame can be laid upon these organisations.

A curse is laid upon him, and for five millenniums he lies, undisturbed, under the Egyptian sands, until foolhardy archaeologists and sleazy treasure hunters dig him out.

My only qualm concerns not so much the mission of Coogler's movie as its form; I wonder what weight of political responsibility can, or should, be laid upon anything that is accompanied by buttered popcorn.