Sentence examples for called on to ask from inspiring English sources

(I was the only woman called on to ask a question, and that was after having my hand up for 20 minutes).

She said she was called on to ask questions four times in various settings, surely a record for a foreign journo, and she posed her queries in both English and Mandarin.

I am told that around this time, one of the reporters in the room, hoping to ask a question about the debt ceiling, was overheard whispering, "Is this really happening?" It was! (That reporter ended up not getting called on to ask an actual question of substance).

As the number of women in leadership positions continues to rise -- 2013 saw such landmark appointments as Mary Barra at GM and Janet Yellen at the Fed -- working women are constantly called on to ask themselves what they're looking for from their professional experience.

Raise your hand and wait to be called on to ask questions properly.

You have the phone numbers of experts you can call on to ask questions about when you're stuck or feel like making it up.

What would he do, if called on, to protect it, he asked himself.

In the late 1990s on a visit to the US, the then prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on Falwell to ask him to mobilise supporters to pressurise President Clinton to make him refrain from calling on Israel to accept the Oslo accords.

The president, like many of his predecessors, does not intend to seek congressional authorization, though many lawmakers in the GOP-controlled House have called on him to ask Congress to vote on whether to take military action.

He called on Romney to ask the group to edit or remove its ads from the air.

Lange called on parliamentarians to ask tough questions and demand answers about why children continue to suffer from violence, exploitation and abuse within their country.