Sentence examples for had been dialed from inspiring English sources

Some of the woman's calls had been dialed from a second cellphone, they said.

An investigation later indicated that the lawmakers were probably not specifically targeted but had been dialed on the same day because their phone numbers were consecutive.

Mr. Pawlenty's campaign-trail rhetoric this week seems to have been dialed up a notch.

But if performance in the pipe has been dialed back a bit this season, the competition for top talent by sponsors has turned ever more intense.

"The Super Bowl 'echo effect' has been dialed up dramatically," said Peter Blackshaw, chief marketing officer at Nielsen BuzzMetrics, part of the Nielsen Company.

The city's mantra of "run at all costs" has been dialed back, he said, in exchange for a more measured approach that could call for curtailing bus and subway service before a storm hits.

Now that cell-phone systems are being set up to allow police to pinpoint a phone from which "911" has been dialed, information on a driver's location is becoming more and more available.

"Everything has been dialed back a bit," said Peter Bevacqua, the chief business officer at the United States Golf Association, which earns about three-quarters of its annual revenue from the Open.

"All of these numbers are basically ferreted out by a computer," he said, "but if there's a number that matches a terrorist number that has been dialed by a U.S. number or dialed from a terrorist to a U.S. number, then that may be flagged".

He struck down part of a recent federal regulation that requires phone companies to turn over to the police information about all the digits that have been dialed after a suspect's call is connected, including voice-mail passwords and bank account information.

The competitiveness has been dialed down.