Sentence examples for gets summoned from inspiring English sources

That is, it helps to be "the flavor of the month," the band everyone's talking about, the band that gets summoned to dinner (as happened on Friday night) by Seymour Stein, the founder of Sire Records It also helps to be the kind of band that's determined to turn a week of music-biz overload into yet another weird adventure.

Afterwards I got summoned to the Embassy.

If Belvaux's trilogy plays to respectable houses here, he could even get summoned to Hollywood to shoot "Scary Movie 5".

Pity the delivery staff who got summoned to 07307, in Jersey City, on January 9th: the tips there were down by more than twenty-two per cent.

Not until the 78th minute, when the game was already in the bag following the second goal from another foreigner, the Paraguayan substitute Óscar Cardozo, did a Portuguese, Miguel Vitor, get summoned off the bench to join the party.

Some Fatah members have been getting summoned to appear at police stations in Gaza by Hamas's military wing, but Mr Yusuf insists that they are interested only in certain people who have been "working against our interests and with foreign agents".

Calling the New Zealand coach Graham Henry "a big mouth"; getting summoned by a Tri-Nations committee to explain his allegations that referees were favoring the All Blacks to promote the World Cup's taking place in New Zealand next year; and offering support to a South African provincial player accused of murder, all in the space of a few weeks, was a hat trick of gaffes.

Magic is both power and a metaphor for power, and if a practitioner's power outstrips his (or, sometimes, her) wisdom and restraint, disaster ensues: predatory spirits get summoned up, or spells of self-transformation into hawks, bears and dolphins become irreversible.

"They let the first sanctions kick in and once that's dealt with then we usually get summoned.

Months later, exactly three days ago, after an extremely busy day on the phone I get summoned in the supervisor's office.

NEW YORK -- Getting summoned into a room with President Fitzgerald Grant is an order the more than 8 million viewers of "Scandal" would kill for -- Huck-style, if needed.