Sentence examples for circumstances called for from inspiring English sources

I squeezed into my new underthings that promised to tuck, lift or flaunt, as circumstances called for.

According to textbook economics, these circumstances called for higher interest rates to slow the economy and avoid inflation.

Unequal inheritance laws may have powered the drive towards education and training, making those areas better suited for switching between industries when the economic circumstances called for it.

In an interview last week, Mr. Trump said extraordinary circumstances called for extraordinary measures, adding that bondholders understood that "the world has changed since Sept. 11".

As it turned out, the only one with a knack for the style of relaxed erudition that the circumstances called for — the only one you can imagine anybody wanting to sound like, even in 1951 — was Barzun.

In his sleeve notes, Campbell wrote: "The demonstrators marched to the strains of [John Brunner's song] The H-Bomb's Thunder, but when circumstances called for something less rousing and more introspective, this … was the song that … often met the need".

Extreme circumstances call for extreme measures.

Zuckerman reckons that changing circumstances call for a new approach.

"These dire circumstances call for a more robust international response," they added.

Now we experience morality more as a choice that we can always change as circumstances call for it.

Thanks to that timidity, the principle that only extraordinary circumstances call for supermajorities has once again been set aside.