How to Use look kindly on/upon in a Sentence

look kindly on/upon

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• History is familiar with this trick and does not look kindly on it.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 June 2020
• And the people of Arizona don't look kindly on having their votes stolen or watered down with fraudulent votes.
  — ABC News, 6 Feb. 2022
• There are several reasons why the high court is unlikely to look kindly on the petition.
  — Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2020
• Al Qaeda didn’t look kindly on Iraqis who collaborated with the US.
  — Benoît Morenne, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
• Alternatively, the almighty Twitch Drops gods might look kindly upon you.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• Even Meinecke, for all his talk of hospitality, did not look kindly on extended stays at national parks.
  — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2022
• Historian Michael Beschloss framed this as a moment of truth not just for Trump but for other prominent officials, suggesting history would not look kindly on those who look the other way.
  — Nancy Benac, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
• History does not look kindly on leaders who treat human beings like cargo, loading them up and sending them a thousand miles away without telling them their destination.
  — CBS News, 15 Sep. 2022
• Biden’s got an ambitious climate agenda, but there are signs his appointees might look kindly on gas exports, even though activists say the world can’t afford to keep building fossil fuel infrastructure.
  — Sammy Roth Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• Miss Manners also does not look kindly on barking at tenants, business partners or relatives, real or assumed.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• In those cases, courts did not look kindly on tests performed solely to bolster the credibility of the witness without both prosecution and defense having been involved [Wired.com].
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2010
• Kagan in 2018 told a legal forum that the court does not look kindly on Justice Departments that switch too many positions from previous administrations.
  — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 4 Feb. 2021
• And legacy industries seeing their business replaced don’t look kindly on newcomers.
  — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
• Regardless, the league will not look kindly on the Mavs’ manipulation of the injury report where Irving went from Probable to out and four others not mentioned in the original Friday report also suddenly were out with injuries and recovery needs.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
• And there are early indications his administration might look kindly on American companies eager to ship the abundant fuel overseas.
  — Sammy Roth Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024