Sentence examples for abrupt call from inspiring English sources

Every one of the actors interviewed in the book is exercised and sometimes defeated by the question of what to make of the astounding scene of the king's arrival and his abrupt call to business: Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.

However, they have reported complaints about the operator's rude responses, abrupt call hang ups, and refusal to let family members speak with the supervisor.

"They'd say, 'Our analysts say it's going to be all right.' Or, 'The technicals look great.' " Then, with the exception of abrupt calls for more cash to shore up the margin loan, the communications from Morgan Stanley ceased.

A harsh trit call is often used to establish contact (especially between mothers and their young) and to raise alarm; it is characterised by a series of "loud and abrupt" calls that vary in frequency and intensity.

Saatchi denies that the abrupt phone call to Serota was the latest instalment of a row fuelled by mutual loathing.

In nearly all instances, it ends at its seaward edge with an abrupt drop called the shelf break.

This process is drawn from a probability distribution which depends on a set of parameters among which one parameter θ is assumed to be affected by K-1 abrupt changes, called change-points, such that Y t ~ G θ r, ϕ if t ∈ r and r ∈ m where m is a partition of [ [1, n] ] into segments r, θ r stands for the parameter of segment r and ϕ is constant.

And then suddenly came an abrupt wake-up call.

Brookfield's abrupt decision to call off the cleanup seemed to frustrate Mr. Bloomberg.

For those who have not slowed down, the risk of an abrupt wake up call remains.

Everyone in the Quiblers' circle is aware of the threat posed by "what climatologists call abrupt climate change," but the only people fully committed to doing something about it are a group of Tibetan exiles who have made their home on an island in the Bay of Bengal, where the risk of catastrophic flooding is far from theoretical.