Sentence examples for calling for short from inspiring English sources

The silicon-controlled rectifiers (SCR) will probably have a long design life in applications calling for short pulses of high currents.

How to teach students English has proved to be a divisive issue, with many advocacy groups speaking out strongly for bilingual programs and conservative politicians calling for short intensive English-only programs, known as immersion.

Aside from the Apology and Crito, which contain extended speeches, the most prominent feature of these works is Socrates' use of questions calling for short answers.

His career began thanks to his grandmother who heard a radio advert calling for short people to be in the latest of George Lucas's Star Wars films.

Building on this momentum, Say No to Big Money and People For the American Way - with the support of a broad coalition of organizations - have spearheaded a video contest known as the $64,000 Democracy For All Video Challenge calling for short videos portraying the social, economic and environmental implications of unchecked money in politics while connecting the dots to the need for an amendment.

The onset of the Cold War meant that those in the labor movement who kept calling for shorter hours were derided as subversives and communists.

The energy and attention spans of younger subjects are rapidly exhausted, calling for shorter periods of time for testing, more frequent breaks, and sometimes multiple appointments separated by days or weeks.

The platform calls for short, fast videos, and a lot of novelty in the mix.

Gen. Franco caused the matter to be brought before a U.N. committee, called for short, the Committee of Twenty-four.

Nearly six decades later, not much has changed on the Nahanni, as the river is called for short.

The guidelines also call for "short bursts", not a continuous spray (and I reiterate my distaste even for the "short bursts" approach).