Sentence examples for a calling on from inspiring English sources

Governance is not a calling on television, it's a pop-culture spectacle that favors process over outcome: 24-hour sports coverage without a final score.

Writers Benjamin Moser and Dana Stevens debate whether being a writer is a job or a calling on the New York Times Bookends blog.

Mar continues to list the qualities of witchy religions: recruitment isn't generally practiced (a "calling" on the part of a potential initiate is considered much more powerful), and "good" and "evil" aren't thought of as warring forces.

In a video segment released March 25 , 2009 Rick Joyner described an extended phone chat with Palin during which he discussed meeting with members of Congress such as Michelle Bachmann, complained that media overage of the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Palin had been unfair, and declared "I believe there is a spiritual authority and a calling on Governor Palin that is extraordinary..

You can take a call on one network and put it on hold when a call on the other network comes through.

It is hard for a visitor to the US to make a call on this one.

He made a call on his mobile.

The break came with a call on July 24.

Father Timone did not return a call on Monday.

Around noon Mr. Billiot got a call on his cellphone.

Mr. Larkin made a call on her at her hotel.