Sentence examples for called on nations from inspiring English sources

Last week, the Bush administration listed Hezbollah as one of 22 terrorist groups, and President Bush called on nations to freeze the groups' bank accounts.

Mr. Ashcroft said that in the past the United States had called on nations to fight terrorism.

The assembly also called on nations to resist pressures to build antimissile systems -- a clear message to Washington.

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has called on nations to do more to protect the environment from the devastation of war.

He called on nations to tackle the ongoing global econimuic crisis with "optimism and hard work" stating that "any problem which is created [by man], we must have the ability to solve".

The scientific importance of the transit was made clear by Edmund Halley, Britain's second astronomer royal, who in 1716 called on nations to join forces and record the event from positions around the world.

He campaigned against racism, nationalism, anti-Semitism and McCarthyism while calling on nations to renounce nuclear weapons and form a world government.

Passage last week of a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on nations around the world to aid Iraq helped encourage some donor countries to come forward, Mr. Powell said.

By calling on nations around the world to enforce international human rights law when enforcement is vetoed by a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, the court has essentially affirmed a power to "veto the veto".

These countries have repeatedly called on developed nations to fulfil a promise that is even older than the one they made in Copenhagen.

We assembled in the wake of a recent UN declaration calling on nations to examine the ways that national policies can measure and promote happiness in each society.