Sentence examples for called upon to be from inspiring English sources

Bevan's health service is still called upon to be democratically available to all and equally.

Ordinary people were called upon to be heroic and discovered that they could do it.

Mr. McKellen is impressive; what actor does better when called upon to be contemptuous and overbearing?

With life expectancy short, godparents were often called upon to be protectors of their godchildren.

Yet the head of the commission is called upon to be the dynamic public face of Europe.

One of David's points was that Kate Winslet is often called upon to be an American in films.

We were called upon to be patient, and we were, giving chance after chance to reach a peace agreement.

It's one thing for him to say he's a hero, but now he's called upon to really be a hero," Guggenheim said.

What these volunteers are called upon to do is exceptional since it is not shared by all of their fellow Americans.

Statements by judges on issues they might be called upon to decide were generally thought to violate codes of judicial ethics before that decision.

The computer skills which a subeditor is called upon to exercise are considerable.