Sentence examples for compact call from inspiring English sources

In our conversations, Mulroy denied that there would be a compact call, but she pointed out that Las Vegas's groundwater and desalination plans were going ahead anyway for precautionary reasons.

This contingency, known as a "compact call," sets the lower-basin states against the upper, but it has never occurred; it is deeply feared by many water managers, because it would ravage the fragile relationship among states and almost certainly lead to a scrum of lawsuits.

To create fall's smoky eye, she used a new eye compact called Palette Esprit Couture.

Part of the diplomatic compact included a $150 million payment that Congress, in ratifying the compact, called a "full and final settlement" of claims across the Marshall Islands.

It first came to his notice in 1973, when he got a field report on one of Ford's top-selling cars, a compact called the Pinto.

Now I own one: a small, dapper digital compact called the D-Lux 3. It has a fine lens, and its grace note is a retro leather case that makes me feel less like Henry Fonda and more like a hiker named Helmut, striding around the Black Forest in long socks and a dark-green hat with a feather in it; but a D-Lux 3 is not an M8.

There's a new Chevy compact called the Cruze (40mpg on the highway) next summer, and a U.S.-made small car is promised in a couple of years.

"The Affordable College Compact" calls for state and federal partnership in higher education with the goals of substantially increasing public investment in higher education and reducing student debt.

Nissan builds a compact car called the March in India and Thailand, where it procures 87% of the parts locally.

Brainbench, a Chantilly, Va., online-skills-assessment firm, last year ranked Milwaukee among the five American cities with the highest information technology I.Q.'s For all this, downtown is still so compact, businesspeople call the commute the "rush minute".

Much of the DNA in a cell is wrapped around proteins called histones to form a compact structure called chromatin.