whereon

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But Malaysia’s negeri city-states—in which rulers maintained firm control over the river systems but made little effort to control the hinterlands beyond their banks—were more indicative of a planet whereon, until several hundred years ago, few people conceived of political territory as exclusive real estate.

From The New Yorker

When he entered the room, he later wrote his brother Theo, “I felt something akin to: Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.”

From The Wall Street Journal

For Alexander, when he saw the multitude at a distance, in white garments, while the priests stood clothed with fine linen, and the high-priest in purple and scarlet clothing, with his mitre on his head, having the golden plate whereon the name of God was engraved, he approached by himself, and adored that name, and first saluted the high-priest.

From Forbes

Among the enigmas, lines of an unreal, fairy-tale beauty emerge: “When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”; “I summon up remembrance of things past”; “That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows / whereon the stars in secret influence comment”; “Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul / Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.”

From The New Yorker

The authors of the paper quote Ben Graham, the doyen of share analysts, as saying the market is not a weighing machine but a “voting machine whereon countless individuals register choices which are partly the product of reason and partly the product of emotion.”

From Economist