Sentence examples for had once called for from inspiring English sources

A previous version incorrectly stated that Senator John McCain had once called for Clapper's resignation.

Missouri's other Senator, Republican Roy Blunt, had once called for Akin to quit but has now promised support.

So successful were those reintroductions that scientists who had once called for their protection were advocating for their removal from the endangered species list by late 2015.

Guevara had once called for the creation of "one, two, three, many Vietnams", but who was going to fund and sustain them?

In Clinton, Mr. Kerry fired back at Dr. Dean and Mr. Gephardt for challenging his support for farmers because he had once called for cutbacks in the Agriculture Department.

Over four years, eligibility would expand to families earning up to $125,000 annually -- not the universal free tuition that Sanders had once called for, but a much more generous idea than Clinton's earlier call for helping students attend college without taking on debt. .

Brooklyn College bestowed an honorary degree on a civil rights lawyer whom college officials had once called unfit for public office.

On Friday, thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square on the day that the military had once called a deadline for the handover of power to civilian rule, a reminder of how taking control of the country has worn away the military's popularity since it forced President Hosni Mubarak from power eight months ago.

"Someone from the bank had once called me and asked for the money back," he said, "but I told them the money was spent".

The Dalmeyer kids, who had once called him a "rectal shitbrain" for bringing the wrong goalie pad for street hockey and teased him for making "the nosehole sound," would be sorry when he stuck a wooden lozenge up their garden hose and it exploded.

Kenny had once called him stupid.