Sentence examples for called upon against from inspiring English sources

Buffon was brilliant in the one instant that he was truly called upon against Inter, plunging to his left and thrusting out an arm to block a close-range effort from Éder.

McNair has an injured ankle and right calf, but because Tennessee has yet to secure a playoff spot, he may be called upon against the Houston Texans on Sunday.

Finally, the ELT teachers referred to the principles of post-method pedagogy as a solution to be called upon against the challenges of self-assessment and peer-assessment.

However, the branches of legislation likely to be called upon against the photos — unlawful surveillance law, "peeping Tom" laws, and cyber harassment law — are so specific in their language, that both upskirting and revenge porn cases frequently end up in a gray area that nothing covers.

"My manager is taking some heat for a situation that I've put him in," Smoltz said, referring to Bobby Cox not having called upon him against the Giants.

When a student from the iodine-poor mountains of Idaho was called upon to compete against a student from iodine-rich coastal Maine, we thought of it as our moral obligation to redress their natural inequality.

Indeed, in 2006, it tracked down the Baluch leader Nawab Bugti, cornered him in a cave and killed him with a precision ­bombardment – exactly the sort of operation, one assumes, it would be called upon to conduct against the Taliban.

Pharnavaz made alliances with various North Caucasian peoples during his reign, to whom he called upon for help against both Macedonia and internal foes.

"Erich got so carried away," Ephron wrote, "that Jacqueline Susann, who is no slouch herself in the self-aggrandizement department, felt called upon to advise him against it.

Our armed forces fighting the Taliban are fearlessly taking the heat, and so too will our juries if called upon to render justice against those accused of terrorism.

So they are used to plugging holes, which is why nobody panicked when Dietrich-Smith was called upon to go up against Suh, whose reputation as an intimidating player precedes him.