Sentence examples for call higher from inspiring English sources
They wanted umpires to call higher strikes, in particular, but also strikes on pitches at the bottom limit of the zone and on its inside corner.
Last year Alderson sent a directive to all umpires to reduce the horizontal strike zone to the limits defined by home plate and to call higher strikes than they had been.
True high-speed rail — trains traveling 185 miles an hour or so — may not be attainable in the United States anytime soon, but what rail buffs call "higher speed" rail like that 97-mile stretch on the Wolverine certainly is.
This quarter, Louis Lipschitz, the company's chief financial officer, said during a conference call, higher costs will counter moderate sales increases and Toys RR" Us "would prefer to see" analysts' forecasts "a little bit lower" and then higher later in the year.
What many of these individuals likely mean when they call higher education a public good is that higher education has positive externalities.
For those of us who call higher education home, it is incumbent upon us to get closer, or "proximate" as Bryan Stevenson advocates, to the issues of inequality and injustice that we want to better understand and that need our support.
These lessons are meant to encourage children to develop what educational theorists call higher-order thinking.
Managers willing to take a longer view of their company's performance can capitalize on assets they already own to address what we call "higher-order needs". These unmet customer demands don't involve incremental improvements in product features and functionality.
(Goat-herding call, high bounce).
Umpires did not call high strikes on the corners.
