Sentence examples for call down on from inspiring English sources

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The charm and magic of Ali's incantatory street doggerel is the way it permitted him to call down on Earth the gods of our self-making and our bold self-loving.

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"Everyone appreciates what's been done," said Ms. Schneider, who also owns a local card and gift shop, called Down on Main Street.

He majored in economics and wrote a junior thesis called "Down on the Farm: An Examination of Competitive Advantages For Minor League Baseball". He earned a master's degree in sports management from the University of Massachusetts and worked at Baseball Info Solutions for the summer of 2006.

It wasn't even the "fire and blood and anguish" the Inspector calls down on them in recompense, although I remember confusedly expecting literal flames, and possibly the appearance of the Demon King, on the class trip to the actual show.

It's good of Microsoft to publicly call down the government on its failure to reform and rein in the NSA thus far.

"Can I ask you to consider leaving the Republican Party?" Miles Kristan, 26, called down on a recent afternoon from the rotunda's overlook.

But the God he called down on them didn't hold much water anymore, and they made short work of the old fellow.

Variety editor Peter Bart has, Cassandra-like, called down on Apatow's head The Curse of John Hughes: the 80s Teen Comedy king, once Tinseltown's ruler but now fallen from those heights.

If the cultural relativist persuaded most people to cease taking the truth claim of their assertions seriously, then "curse upon us worse than that which God called down on the builders of Babel; rather than our speaking different languages, not to be speaking a genuine language at all".

The décor includes two statues of humans with the heads of dogs, a half-dozen portraits of monkeys in dinner jackets having a smoke, which Ms. Markoe purchased for 99 cents apiece online, and Passover hand puppets designed to look like the plagues called down on Egypt.

Playing out the curse that Joshua called down on efforts to rebuild Jericho — "With the loss of his firstborn shall he lay the foundation thereof, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it" — would make a nifty special episode for sweeps month.

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