Hit-upon Sentence Examples

If you get no reaction to a name, try out a few more to see if you do hit upon a name that gets a positive reaction.

Fathers For Justice hit upon the rather perplexing idea of campaigning whilst dressed in the uniform of a comic book superhero.

In the preface to the appendix containing the local arithmetic he states that, while devoting all his leisure to the invention of these abbreviations of calculation, and to examining by what methods the toil of calculation might be removed, in addition to the logarithms, rabdologia and promptuary, he had hit upon a certain tabular arithmetic, whereby the more troublesome operations of common arithmetic are performed on an abacus or chess-board, and which may be regarded as an amusement A facsimile of this document is given by Mark Napier in his Memoirs of John Napier (1834), p. 248.

But the difficulties interposed by spherical and chromatic aberration had arrested progress in that direction until, in 1655, Huygens, working with his brother Constantijn, hit upon a new method of grinding and polishing lenses.

His disciples believe that in time the world will reverence Comte's sentiment about Clotilde de Vaux, as it reveres Dante's adoration of Beatrice - a parallel that Comte himself was the first to hit upon.

About three young adults venture to Africa to explore the continent, it hit upon a war torn country called Uganda where there are child soldiers and a very scared population.

Sample videos from all stages of his career, being sure to hit upon the high points, such as the landmark Thriller video and his live performances of Billie Jean.

The hit may be as subtle as reading a change in the subject's body language or eye contact or a direct confirmation they've hit upon something of interest.

To save himself he hit upon the novel and terrible expedient of uniting the Tatars and the Cossacks Cossack in a determined onslaught upon the Republic, whose Rebellion of inward weakness, despite its brave outward show, 1648.

The prince was wounded in the heat of the action, this being the thirteenth time that he had been hit upon the field of battle.

Langstroth, in his measurements, hit upon the happy mean which keeps bees from propolizing or fastening the frames to the hive body, as they assuredly would do if sufficient space had not been allowed for free passage round the side-bars; it is equally certain that if too much space had been provided, they would fill it with comb and thus render the frame immovable.

Sometimes he became too mannered for his own good - but elsewhere he hit upon passages of scorching lucidity.

Nevertheless these years of war called for the united action of a national government, and in seeking to gain this 5upport for himself, he hit upon an.

Life After Death became a hit upon its release 16 days after the rapper's death.