embark on/upon something

Examples of embarked

embarked

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

This planner is well adapted for use with embarked sensors, because it uses only the distance information between the robot and the obstacles.
But this is not guaranteed to happen just because the defendant was morally justified in the course on which he embarked.
Most psychologists studying later-life well-being have opted for the second explanation, and embarked on a search for the mechanisms entailed.
Once the performance began, however, the audience embarked upon a process of experiencing the ephemeral place of performance.
Pressured by international donors, he dissolved the military junta and embarked on a programme of political and economic reforms in 1991.
We have embarked upon a major mouse mutagenesis programme to recover a large number of novel mutant phenotypes, including new mouse deaf mutants.
They did not know when they embarked on a project whether they would have the stamina to complete it before they died.
Within two months he had embarked on his selfappointed task by lecturing on song collection.
Subsequent presidential administrations embarked on a series of liberalizations.
Thus, the cost of one treatment sequence embarked upon would be slightly less than 940.
In our case, this notion was very simplified to take into account the real-time constraints in agreement with those embarked on the robot.
The physical actions and particularly violent confrontations have actually been last resorts of the civil groups, embarked upon because of the failure of peaceful methods.
I embarked on the interview process with an open mind, unsure what student responses might reveal.
We embarked upon an experiment to obtain a preliminary answer to our question.
Thus, we have embarked upon a program of research to address these issues.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.