Sentence examples for an obvious call on from inspiring English sources

On June 3, Jim Joyce, one of the better umpires in Major League Baseball, missed an obvious call on what would have been the 27th and final out, costing Armando Galarraga, a pitcher with Detroit, a rare perfect game.

Though not an obvious call, this was a fortunate decision.

An obvious CALL TO ACTION.

While it may seem obvious, whom you call on for help will depend on what you need done.

The particular issues are obvious: calling out on a player's backswing; willing a putt to miss or ball to fly into a water hazard; and, to a lesser extent, wild cheering when woe does befall an opposition competitor.

"You can't have a World Series game, or an important game in the pennant race, decided on an obvious missed call where literally every 10-year-old kid at home can see what the call should be.

This one is an obvious wakeup call.

What happened to BBB became an obvious wake-up call on the valuations of investment grade mortgage-backed bonds and led to this fall's spectacular collapse in the price of the investment-graded bonds, from single A all the way up to supposedly sacrosanct AAA.

Was it an obvious interference call?

Some of these hoopsters — as Deadspin, in an obvious play on "hipster," calls them — wear them as commentaries on their youth.

Baldwin started his own skate punk ministry (although I'm not really sure what that means), starred in a number of straight-to-DVD Christian action movies, became a cultural adviser to President Bush, and wrote a 2006 memoir about becoming a born-again Christian called The Unusual Suspect, an obvious play on the name of the one movie he's actually famous for appearing in.