Sentence examples for calling to extend from inspiring English sources

President Obama has been steadfast — and basically correct — in calling to extend the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of taxpayers and to let them expire for the top 2 percent.

Wouldn't it be better to go widescreen and look for stories of continuing change away from Washington? Arianna"s report of how Change.org was calling to extend the campaign activism into civic life is a great example of this.

MIKE had someone call to extend an invitation to drop by and talk politics for a while.

Labor has already called to extend the commission, which is due to hand down its final findings in February next year.

Mired in traffic while on my way to return a Zipcar, I called to extend the reservation — only to learn that another customer had reserved the car for precisely the time I was supposed to return it.

But in changing the policy, the White House called to extend comfort to Gregg Keesling, the father of a soldier who committed suicide in 2009 on his second tour in Iraq.

Cosmetic genital procedures with no medical purpose were recently attacked in a report from the British home affairs select committee, which called to extend female genital mutilation law to ban "designer vagina" surgeries.

The best outcome would be a unanimous report that focused on taming rising health-care costs (see first item above), rejected Republican calls to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy (see second item above), and supported extending unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and a new WPA (third item).

The draft plan calls to extend the program another decade and to reach emissions levels 40percentt below 1990 levels.

He questioned calls to extend a troop surge in Iraq, declaring: "This war is lost".

President Obama, in a speech to the United Nations on Thursday, repeated his call to extend the moratorium.