Sentence examples for has been dialing from inspiring English sources

He has been dialing up some Hawkeye State acquaintances of yesteryear on behalf of Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor who is near the front of the Democratic presidential field in many polls.

She has a contact at Entergy, the company that owns the Indian Point nuclear power plant here, and she has been dialing the number a lot lately, mostly to chase down rumors she hears from anxious parents.

Ever since, she has been dialing around, frantically looking for help -- from the police, from the super, from animal protection societies, from the Bronx Zoo, from the Museum of Natural History.

Richard Rainwater, the Texas investor who made billions buying oil stocks, shares the view that oil is scarce, and so does Warren Buffett, the investor whom Wall Street has been dialing for rescue capital.

During the past month each performance has been dialled up several notches from the game before.

Yet with the exception of an opening fire safety announcement, the sitcom's meta-ness has been dialled back.

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.

But the gaudy flamboyance of Las Vegas or Palm Beach has been dialled down to cream and grey walls – as befits understated Washington.

"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.