Sentence examples for called for things from inspiring English sources

Ministers have repeatedly called for things they must know to be impossible.

He called for things like bank checks and phone bills printed in Braille.

They had their "Six for '06" platform that called for things like more student loans and a hike in the minimum wage.

Mr. Brownback's administration has called for things like overhauling the school funding formula to reduce nonclassroom expenditures, and making changes to the pension fund as ways to create a more sustainable long-term budget.

Although the store is generally well stocked with Asian ingredients, my recipe called for things far too exotic for the likes of Park Slope, including galangal and fresh kaffir lime.

Instead, forthcoming apps will use the Nearby Connections API, as the technology is called, for things like offline media sharing or the distribution of urgent weather warnings in low-bandwidth areas, for example.

Very few would stand up and call for things that are important for the future of humankind.

"He's calling for things in the best interest of his community," she said, "and we're doing the same for ours".

It calls for things like  more hiring of mental-health professionals, a national suicide-prevention campaign, and a review of existing mental-health and addiction-treatment programs to identify and expand the programs that work well.

What if one day Facebook decides to suspend from its site a presidential campaign or a politician whose platform calls for things like increased data privacy for individuals and limits on data retention and use?

This is not to say that London mayors shouldn't "call for" things they're unlikely to get, seek to steer public debate, lobby for bolder devolution settlements or generally bang the big Londonist drum.