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
• History will not look kindly on those who supported or financed it.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
• There are several reasons why the high court is unlikely to look kindly on the petition.
  — Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 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
• Alternatively, the almighty Twitch Drops gods might look kindly upon you.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• And legacy industries seeing their business replaced don’t look kindly on newcomers.
  — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Al Qaeda didn’t look kindly on Iraqis who collaborated with the US.
  — Benoît Morenne, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Instead, you’ll be directed to a space by staff, who will not look kindly on your attempts to save the spaces next to you for your friends’ SUVs.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• 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
• Preseason projections do not look kindly upon the 2023 Red Sox.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• And though nothing is guaranteed, the guide also seems to have an affinity for omakase-style experiences and tasting menus and look kindly upon chefs whose sister restaurants already have stars.
  — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Cue outrage among many Bluesky users, particularly those who have boned up on EU data protection law, which does not look kindly on reusing people’s data without their permission.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2024
• 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
• 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