Idiom
Drastic times call for drastic measures.
When you are extremely desperate you need to take extremely desperate actions.
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That is why our recent university access guidance for the first time called for specific support for white boys from the poorest homes".
Entering one of the hottest environmental debates in the state, the administration of Gov. George E. Pataki has for the first time called for the dredging of the Hudson River to remove potentially harmful PCB's.
President Vladimir V. Putin, speaking publicly about the arrest for the first time, called for an end to "hysteria and speculations," which reached a new fervor in the two days since masked agents seized Mr. Khodorkovsky, the chairman of Yukos Oil, aboard his corporate jet during a refueling stop in Siberia.
Facing a loss of consumer confidence in fresh fruits and vegetables because of repeated outbreaks of food-borne illness, three major produce industry groups have for the first time called for government regulation in an industry that until now has had none.
In 1944 Congress passed a highway bill that for the first time called for a "National System of Interstate Highways," and which provided that one-quarter of each year's federal appropriation to the states for roads that would be used in cities.
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The tension led to a confrontation last weekend, with demonstrators retaking Tahrir Square and for the first time calling for the downfall of the top military leader, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
Crucially, the call unites the core of a formerly fragmented political and armed opposition on issues of national governance for the first time, calling for a peaceful and popular democratic transformation.
We issued a new plan from Mayors Against Illegal Guns on how to stem gun violence — for the first time calling for background checks on all gun sales, no matter who sells the gun and no matter where it is sold.
The draft document, released by the American Psychiatric Assn., for the first time calls for binge-eating and gambling to be considered disorders, opening the way for insurance coverage of these problems.
The plans, presented in detail for the first time, call for five additional floors of apartments above the 12 floors to be designed within the old building, built in 1884.
In a contemporary folk song Frederick William was for the first time called the "Great Elector".
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