Sentence examples for abrupt summons from inspiring English sources

In his novel "The Prince of Nantucket," Jan Goldstein describes Teddy Mathison, a hot senatorial candidate ("Men wanted to be around him; women wanted to have his baby") whose California campaign is interrupted by an abrupt summons.

The reason Mr. Lopez gave for his resignation was that he was angry about the abrupt way he was summoned by Congress to testify in the unresolved year-old kidnapping of Osvaldo Sivak, a businessman whose family maintains it was forced to pay $275,000 to para-policemen assigned by the Interior Ministry to investigate.

To avoid the detection of an abrupt letter change by a transient that could summon attention to otherwise untracked and unattended items, we imposed two different noises: (1) movement noise: all items moved with a small jitter orthogonal to the direction of motion and (2) added transients: every 750 ms all items would change their identity to the letter O for 250 ms, then change back again.

The investment bank's executive director in charge of Libyan investments, Youssef Kabbaj, was summoned to the LIA's office to explain, only for the meeting to come to an abrupt conclusion when the banker was thrown out of the building by LIA director, Mustafa Mohamed Zarti.

Very abrupt," she says.

"It was very abrupt.

He was very abrupt.

An abrupt stop.

Abrupt changes can be risky.

• Abrupt changes in air pressure.

There were abrupt lifts.