enter upon
Example Sentences
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“There is no week nor day when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance,” he wrote, in the Brooklyn Eagle.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 19, 2017
Kenworthy also stressed creating an atmosphere for Mill Creek Valley students that will prepare them for the world they will enter upon graduation.
From Washington Times • May 1, 2015
It means accepting that encounters with others are an essential feature of the world we enter upon.
From Salon • May 26, 2013
"Crowds, after a period of excitement, enter upon a purely automatic and unconscious state, in which they are guided by suggestion," he wrote.
From Scientific American • Aug. 12, 2011
“You have been pleased to enter upon some subjects which call for a reply,” she began ominously.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
