Sentence examples for is called upon by from inspiring English sources

Aside from the occasional greeting, no one seems to notice the disembodied Mr. Beltzner until he is called upon by Mary Colvig, a Mozilla marketing manager.

Orphaned Sue Trinder, raised in a house of petty thieves on London's seething south bank, is called upon by the mysterious and villainous Gentleman to enter into a plot to defraud another young orphaned girl, rich heiress Maud Lilly.

Mr. Cohen said Buffett will enter the plot after Erica's capture and imprisonment when he is called upon by their mutual friend, Opal Jill Larsonn), to use his influence to try to leverage a deal on Erica's behalf.

Colin Firth is Stanley Crawford, a conjuror performing under the stage name Wei Ling Soo, who is called upon by his friend Howard Simon McBurneyy) to debunk a young clairvoyant.

In the new Broadway revival of W. Somerset Maugham's comedy "The Constant Wife," Ms. Redgrave, above, plays Mrs. Culver, a plumply upholstered British matron who is called upon, by herself primarily, to interfere in the messy marital affairs of her daughter, who has a straying husband and some bold ideas about how best to deal with him.

In 1 Chronicles 5 4 (see Chronicles, books of the), Gog is identified as a descendant of the prophet Joel, and in Ezekiel 38 39, he is the chief prince of the tribes of Meshech and Tubal in the land of Magog, who is called upon by God to conquer the land of Israel.

I recall being called upon by a group of my leftish mates to go and march for the printers at Wapping.

The team work entirely on a voluntary basis, leaping to action on specialised rescue boats when they are called upon by local fishermen.

Douze and Rosa-Salas describe Mami Wata as being "called upon by those pursuing wealth, wisdom, emotional guidance, and sexual liberation.

Despite two failed bids for the presidency and a near-fatal aneurysm, "Call Me Joe" Biden continued to live the life of a happy successful man when he was called upon by newly crowned democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to serve as his Vice President in 2008.

The enquiry was chaired by Professor (now Lord) John Krebs, and was the third such expert review since 1980: a pattern which has continued subsequently, with three further groups of 'independent experts' having been called upon by successive UK governments to the present day.