Sentence examples for called as though from inspiring English sources

Colleagues from "the real world" (as the private sector is habitually called, as though the governance of the country were some frivolous Narnia) often flop as politicians.Even so, there is a difference between defending this professionalisation and testing it to destruction.

It turned out that as an ALIEN (Yes, that is exactly what I am called as though I am from Mars) I cannot serve my country.

At first I thought he meant called, as though he has a calling, a vocation but no, he meant called on the phone.

Both current and former UBS employees could be called as witnesses, though the firm has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

Of these, 20 were common with whole-genome sequencing, and one was incorrectly called as somatic though it was actually germline substitutions in the whole-genome sequencing data.

A gene with high posterior score can be called as candidate genes, even though it has a low prior score and fails to be called in standard GWAS due to stringent p value cut-off, chip coverage or sampling bias.

The band reformed last year and made a decent CD called "Nord", though not as classic as their early '80s stuff, such as Night After Night.

That set was called Hollywood -- though, as Gavin Lambert reminds us, in a helpful but too-brief introduction, Hollywood in this sense was never in Hollywood at all.

Smart stiffened, as though called to attention, and darted into the stands.

"Sean!" she called, with cheerful volume, as though to cover her disappointment in his follicles.

And Romney has promised to veto the DREAM Act for responsible young immigrants - and even called it a "handout," as though going to college or serving in the military is a free pass.