Sentence examples for called for shorter from inspiring English sources
He called for "shorter trials, more focused indictments and fewer accused".
In particular, Obama called for shorter minimum mandatory sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, citing the sentences as the reason that the prison population has quadrupled from 500,000 in 1980 to more than 2.2 million today.
It may be that expediency rather than principle made him embrace the radical program adopted in 1771 by the Bill of Rights men, which called for shorter Parliaments, a wider franchise, and the abolition of aristocratic "pocket boroughs".
Citing the men's family circumstances and financial motives, she also explained why the case called for shorter sentences than would have been appropriate had they been spurred by ideology.
Later, when the Great Depression hit, unions called for shorter hours to spread out the reduced workload and prevent layoffs; big companies like Kellogg's followed suit voluntarily.
El Savador's government advised women on Monday to delay getting pregnant until 2018 -- an unprecedented recommendation -- while Colombia, Jamaica and Ecuador called for shorter delays. .
Weather like this called for shorts and flip-flops, and perhaps even an ice cream.
Gen. Franco caused the matter to be brought before a U.N. committee, called for short, the Committee of Twenty-four.
He anchored the early game plan, which mostly called for short-to-intermediate passes and heavy doses of play-action.
The daytime symposiums at SXSW, as it is called for short, give beginners practical advice on how to build the mosaic of a 21st-century music career.
