But when Beckham retires the world's cameras are turned upon him.
It was to ensure a minimal amount of accountability so that the country's huge surveillance powers would not be turned upon the American people.
As Judge Hand said in the Alcoa case, "The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins".
Her fiancé feared that the wrath of the Party would be turned upon her, perhaps even lethally, if Mira, as a member of the military, appeared as a witness in what was clearly a politically motivated trial.
The great challenge to the movement was to try to convince the rest of the population that the proposed statutes, explicitly targeting those on the fringes of society, would soon be turned upon them too.
The same technology could be turned upon the chikungunya virus, carried by mosquitoes in 60 countries, against West Nile fever, and against the trypanosomiasis-bearing bug responsible for Chagas disease in Latin America.
I remember vividly being in a pub in the very early 1980s in Brighton with a bunch of other community work types when we were turned upon by a lieutenant-colonel character, of the kind you only really seem to find in the plays of Terence Rattigan.
The string and woodwind arrangements of Kate St John bring Bacharach-ian pop colour to Williams's pastoral acoustica, while her quizzical, wistful and occasionally rude gaze are turned upon Stevie Smith ('Stevie'), a webcam porn star ('Sandy L') and the contours of her lover's face ('Glass Bottom Boat').
Five years before Clarke began working on "2001," he published a collection of essays entitled "The Challenge of the Spaceship," in which, at the end, he pays a tribute to Homer: Across the gulf of centuries the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age.
