Sentence examples for called a short from inspiring English sources

Judge Gergel called a short recess.

One is what is called a "short sale".

Selling futures is called a short hedge; buying futures is called a long hedge.

Mr. Rouhani emphasized that his government had the authority and the will to reach a nuclear settlement within what he called "a short period of time".

Investors who had bet that VW shares would fall were caught in what is called a short squeeze and lost billions of dollars.

Later, he acknowledged that John D. Ehrlichman, who was then Nixon's chief domestic affairs adviser, called a short time later to reiterate the president's order.

The proposed method can be called a short-term immersion test in comparison with traditional long-term immersion tests.

Given the range of both narratives, this work of extravagantly fine fiction cannot really be called a short-story collection.

Sundhage inherited an American team in what Gulati called a "short-term crisis" after a 4-0 loss to Brazil in the semifinals of the 2007 World Cup.

But the Republican governor, thought to have an eye on a second presidential run in 2016, made clear he held Obama primarily responsible for what he called a "short-sighted and tragic decision to essentially turn [child immigrants] loose in the US".

And when women pursued what's called a short-term reproductive strategy -- a quick fling -- then presumably evolution favored the woman who was attracted to a man with good genes, as manifest either in his looks or in some display of prowess.