Sentence examples for called for some reckoning from inspiring English sources

The 25th year of the festival called for some reckoning.

In a moment that might have called for some engagement — some reckoning with the bigotry and xenophobia of his party's standard-bearer — Kasich congratulated himself on his disengagement.

She called for "some institutional soul-searching".

This called for some old-fashioned bluffing.

Students called for a reckoning from the institution, and said their first demand was for Oxford to "acknowledge and confront its role in the ongoing physical and ideological violence of empire".

Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican, asked her to explain what she meant, in a 2003 essay in The New Republic, when she called for "a historical reckoning with crimes committed, sponsored or permitted by the United States".

There was exactly one person within the conservative firmament who called for a critical reckoning with the events of 2009, arguing that it had been a mistake to put down peaceful protests with violence, and that dissent should not be a crime in the Islamic Republic.

Former Reserve Bank board member John Edwards joined the chorus of critical voices last week in calling for some type of inquiry into the banks, saying their relative power had increased significantly in recent years and it had to be reckoned with.

It calls for some altogether wilder filmmaking.

This calls for some explanation.

"I think all the women are that are speaking up and calling for a reckoning now," he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.