Sentence examples similar to called for quotations from inspiring English sources
An article on Tuesday about efforts by the Senate to reach a bipartisan deal on reopening the government and raising the debt ceiling misidentified the source of a quotation that called for a "befuddled world to start considering building a de-Americanized world".
QUOTE APPROVAL Early in my tenure, I called for The Times to prohibit the practice of allowing news sources to approve quotations for use in news articles.
But this is not a contrary-to-fact condition, just an indirect quotation after the past-tense verb "asked," so the subjunctive is not called for.
And she called for the full repeal of the new health care law, revisiting the catchphrase that caused so much controversy during debate of the bill: "When I talk about death panels, death panels was in quotation marks".
Amazon.com puts this notion much more pleasantly on a bookmark distributed with orders, one that says, "Summer days call for light reading," a quotation attributed to Anonymous.
Quotations treated in this manner are called block quotations.
As never before or after, that day's coverage included long quotations from speeches and even the text of the rally's "resolution" calling for urgent measures to move Jews out of Hitler's grasp.
He calls for a redeemer, mentioning the miracles that occurred as Moses led the Israelites to the promised land, and closes with a quotation from a patriotic poem by Petrarch (1304 74).
A block quote is also often called a long quotation.
It's called Kiss For The Whole World, a quotation from Schiller's Ode To Joy, which Beethoven set to music at the climax of his Ninth Symphony: an image of universal rapture, communion with the universe in love.
