Sentence examples for first call upon from inspiring English sources

Ahead of Saturday's home Premier League match against Norwich City, he said: His first call upon being appointed was to former United boss Sir Alex Ferguson: "I wanted advice and I wanted to know just what to expect".

Why was Warren G. Harding's first call upon winning the Republican presidential nomination to party bosses who created a slush fund to cover up his affairs?

They also have had the right to be the first called upon to read the Torah in the synagogue, followed by a Levite.

It is only during the pre-teen/teenage years that a parent is first called upon to do the real dirty work of parenting, including slapping hands away from self-destruct buttons.

In answering this question, I first called upon my personal memories as a flight attendant.

It first called upon the government of Sri Lanka to implement its own appointed "Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission LLRCreportporeport

If she is first called upon by President Peres to attempt to form a coalition government, she may have no alternative but to find a way to entice Lieberman into her coalition math and, perhaps try to bring Bibi's Likud along, as well.

In Boston James D'Wolf Lovett recalled, "In 1861 the Civil War burst and many baseball plans were disarranged thereby, some of the players enlisting upon the first call for troops; and during the war's progress upwards of fifty members of Boston's clubs were to be found in Uncle Sam's ranks".

And he's not the first to call upon bookers to quit endlessly inviting Senator John McCain to appear, like the proverbial bad penny.

His was one of the first calls Sloan received upon announcing his departure.Sloan's public image, at least outside Utah, is one of intensity, ferocity, perhaps a touch of rage, all born of the courtside competitiveness that television cameras capture.

He noted that the first calls that the president made upon assuming office were to leaders in the region.