Sentence examples for called on to break from inspiring English sources

But the situations they're called on to break up are no less tricky.

"Be prepared" seems to be our motto, as if we might be called on to break a new frontier, instead of just carting home the groceries.

And anticipating a tie vote, Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and a backer of the ban, wrote to Vice President Dick Cheney to urge him to support the ban should he be called on to break a deadlock.

Since the Panama Papers story broke, he's been called on to step down.

This is exactly why American presidents going back to Richard Nixon have called on us to break our costly and dangerous dependence on oil.

Her roles often called on her to break a few rules and to speak innocent truth to stuffy snobs.

According to the paper, blogger Michael B. Vanderboegh described how he called on readers to break Democratic Party windows at headquarters on the city and county level, but to avoid congressional offices or face federal charges.

Mark Osler, a law professor at St. Thomas University who helped organize a letter calling on the administration to speed up the clemency process, called on Obama to "break the bureaucratic logjam" that is holding up the review of clemency application.

The division in the party broke out in well-publicised dissensions, as when Diefenbaker called on Progressive Conservative MPs to break with Stanfield's position on a bilingualism bill, and nearly half the caucus voted against their leader or abstained.

Campaigners said on Saturday that the world faced a "bleak future" without action to tackle climate change and leading environmentalists called on politicians to break the world's dependency on fossil fuels.

"No, the battleground now has moved to a far bigger playing field, based on this fundamental question: can America stand up to a bullying, possibly tyrannical threat, or not?" He also called on Hollywood to break its silence and offer Sony support because any studio could be targeted next.