Sentence examples for heeded a call from inspiring English sources

In the decades since the heyday of the Civilian Conservation Corps, other generations have heeded a call to serve.

Portugal's political parties for the most part heeded a call by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to first deal with the emergency before discussing its circumstances.

UN refugee agency spokeswoman Ariane Rummery told TV3's The Nation on Saturday the New Zealand government had heeded a call to take additional refugees over its quota.

With concerns about growing political instability sending the country's currency to new depths, the Philippines central bank yesterday heeded a call by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to "crack the whip" against currency speculators and raised crucial interest rates.

The sports ministers of the 15-nation union, meeting for the first time since the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, heeded a call of support for the Salt Lake City Games from Jacques Rogge, the I.O.C. president.

The prime minister appears to have heeded a call last month by Professor Guglielmo Verdirame of Kings College, London, for national courts not to follow EU judgments that they regard as unconstitutional.

Hence, too, the reluctance of its diplomats to heed a call from their foreign ministry to return from abroad to Mogadishu, the capital, for "retraining".

Thousands of Lebanese families again filled the roads leading south, heeding a call from Hezbollah that they return immediately to their often-shattered villages.

The demonstrators — heeding a call on social media sites for a public show of dissatisfaction with Mr. Lukashenko's government — displayed no slogans, and they were largely silent apart from some rhythmic clapping.

In 2011, the Supreme Court mandated that the state heed a call from a three-judge court to bring its prison population down to close to a hundred and ten thousand people; the Supreme Court gave the state until 2013.

Heeding a call from Dr. King and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the Board of Regents voted in May to permit districts to base 40 percent of a teacher's annual review on students' scores on state standardized tests.