Sentence examples for a string of calls from inspiring English sources

He spent the night in a police station and after he was taken home made a string of calls to police, but his pleas for protection went unheeded.

In late 2010, after he issued a string of calls for political change, Mr. Wen faced criticism from fellow Standing Committee leaders in a party ritual known as a "democratic life meeting," according to two party officials.

"I'm not thinking about that today," Mr. Vilsack said in a telephone interview, pausing for a moment after juggling a string of calls from a variety of suitors, including Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

The problem is that if anything goes wrong in the middle of a string of calls, the system can break down and typically has to start over.

Needing to finance its mining projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- a country which has some of the world's richest reserves of copper and cobalt -- Katanga's executives had sounded the alarm and made a string of calls for help.

In 2012, she opened a string of cafes called Tea and Java.

The Broncos were kept in the game by a string of controversial calls by the bunker.

A gray-haired man wearing a traditional shalwar kameez came into the room — the civil commissioner — and together the two men made a string of phone calls to their subordinates, announcing the emergency and ordering the evacuation of houses.

That was a layup made by his teammate Aleksandr Belov (no relation), and its legitimacy, coming after a string of strange calls in the last seconds, continues to be questioned.

Tom di Galoma, the United States head of fixed-income rates trading for Guggenheim Partners, said the day started with a string of phone calls as investors measured the effect of the plan.

Moreover, he received a string of phone calls, text messages and e-mails from major donors, Republican elected officials and conservative activists who expressed their support and told him that he should press on.