Sentence examples for were visited upon from inspiring English sources

Emily was the grand-daughter of Bulwer Lytton, whose sins were visited upon her and her siblings.

"The awards were stuffy and were visited upon by corporate elders," said Paul Bogaards, director of publicity for Knopf Doubleday.

"It was a testimony of extremely good quality," he said, "and very important for establishing crimes as well as Milosevic's part in the horrors that were visited upon Croatia and Bosnia".

Part of the explanation lies in the fact that when the survivors look back, many are keen to focus less on the agonies that were visited upon them by Hitler and his executioners and more on the lives they lived before.

Unusually, nothing was ever said about the incident and no repercussions were visited upon Marseille for this indiscretion.

Chang listed and described the kinds of torture that were visited upon the residents, including live burials, mutilation, "death by fire", "death by ice", and "death by dogs".

This was visited upon her.

He was visited upon me once before.

And here it was being visited upon me as a 17-year-old.

On Sept. 11 just such an attack was visited upon us.

A different kind of violence is visited upon today's miners.