• The kingdom has for years taken it upon itself to hold most of the world's spare production capacity.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Police with rescue dogs were searching the building Friday, which appeared to have buckled and collapsed upon itself.

    WSJ: Mumbai Building Collapse Kills at Least 35

  • The risk here would be political: the Fed would be taking upon itself to intervene in the markets.

    ECONOMIST: The Federal Reserve

  • The AIDRG took it upon itself to do what no Israeli governmental body had considered doing: Its members just started counting heads.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Where Israel Went Wrong

  • So rather than repealing the regulation, HHS has taken it upon itself to grant waivers arbitrarily to those whom it deems fit.

    FORBES: Waivers for Favors

  • For more than 30 years the SEC has taken upon itself the task of deciding who should rate debt instruments and who shouldn't.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • "This defendant piled lie upon lie, until the tower of deception she built finally fell in upon itself, " Vance said in a statement.

    WSJ: Former British paralegal guilty of lying in NYC

  • Egged on by a hysterical blogosphere and the ravings of Fox News blowhards, the Republican Party has turned upon itself (see article).

    ECONOMIST: The Republicans

  • But imagine the outcomes if Congress revoked the Fed's power to set interest rates and instead took it upon itself to enact them each quarter.

    FORBES: Tom Daschle

  • The Pendragon Legend is published by the Pushkin Press, which has taken upon itself the task of exposing readers to European writers neglected in the Anglophone world.

    FORBES: A Forgotten Poe

  • In other words, in both finance and economics, as the masses begin to panic, the panic feeds upon itself and the probability of a major unimaginable disaster occurring soars.

    FORBES: Should You Be Worried About Europe's Train Wreck?

  • In creating his "fungus accretion" vases, Simon brushed the rough surface of a ceramic vase with a clay-and-water solution until it built upon itself like a hand-dripped sand castle.

    WSJ: The Wonder Twins of the Design World: Nikolai and Simon Haas | Designers

  • The insurance industry, in failing to make sure that "innocent" patients with pre-existing conditions can get affordable individual health insurance on the open market, has in a way brought reform upon itself.

    FORBES: ObamaCare

  • ASEAN's six senior members -- Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand -- have accepted a responsibility comparable to the one Western Europe took upon itself when the Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989.

    CNN: RETOOLING ASEAN

  • The military thugs who overthrew Sierra Leone's elected government in May last year were clearly not going to leave power this April as they had agreed, so Nigeria has just taken it upon itself to crush them.

    ECONOMIST: Nigeria does it again

  • However, in the absence of such a catalyst to reverse the current decline, the risk to the bullish case is the growing climate of fear feeding upon itself, and thereby creating a further deterioration in the technical backdrop.

    FORBES: The Only Thing Stocks Have To Fear Is Fear Itself

  • Except for Arizona, notes Muzaffar Chishti, Director of New York University's Migration Policy Center, he can't think of a single state or locality that has taken upon itself to enforce federal immigration law without first entering a memorandum of understanding with Uncle Sam.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • We understand that given the restrictions the Board of Directors has imposed upon itself in connection with approving the ill-advised transaction announced on February 5, 2013, the Board of Directors would not be able to pursue the first two recapitalization alternatives stated above at this time.

    FORBES: Is Michael Dell Really Trying To Pull A Fast One On Investors?

  • But much of this potential will depend upon Cuba itself.

    FORBES

  • Similarly, States, counties and cities within the USA have defaulted on debts without this having any effect upon the dollar itself.

    FORBES: Will the Euro Fail in 2012?

  • Today Shell is speaking up for itself upon the release of a Department of Interior report on the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

    FORBES: Shell To Feds: We're Already Safe, Let Us Drill

  • The head chef worked in several Michelin 3-star kitchens in Europe before returning home to cook the finest steaks, along with ultra-fresh seafood that Fervor prides itself upon, in the classic Argentinean style over a smoldering fire of ashes.

    FORBES: Fervor, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • The cutout technique itself builds upon the artist's careerlong preoccupation with color.

    WSJ: Matisse's The Thousand and One Nights in Pittsburgh

  • Even if the Working Group were just a shell, why not call a spade a spade, as opposed to insulting an industry that the newspaper itself depends upon to bring it a percentage of its news and some of its revenues?

    FORBES: Shame on The New York Times

  • Experience itself, bestowed upon the characters in neatly wrapped packages, is cheapened.

    NEWYORKER: The Last Song

  • In short he noted that the spread betting companies offered contracts for differences (not unlike an option but a gambling contract, not an option itself) based upon the best bid and offer prices on the London Stock Exchange.

    FORBES: Barnett Alexander's Market Abuse: Wait, What Market Abuse?

  • There are some older parliamentarians who have bees in their bonnets about checks and balances and who say that committee chairmanship should be looked upon as a useful career in itself.

    ECONOMIST: Dear Worried of Westminster

  • If Elton Mayo's Hawthorne results still hold good, all the attention being bestowed upon the individual worker might of itself be enough to bring about a productivity boost that even the foggy radar of economic statistics can pick up.

    ECONOMIST: Business books (3)

  • This pressure manifests itself by placing greater emphasis upon these schools to produce winning football teams.

    FORBES: SEC College Football Fans The Most Rabid According To Secondary Ticket Price Data

  • But EarthLink itself is looking to build upon the 32, 000 mobile subscribers and software assets it picked up from the Omnisky purchase.

    FORBES: EarthLink's Wireless Play

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