Sentence examples for it was called upon from inspiring English sources

Before the division had completed its initial deployment, it was called upon to relieve the NDH garrison of Ogulin.

It was called upon for a minor role here and froze with stage fright.

The empire was not enlarged under this unwarlike emperor, but it was called upon to put down serious disorders.

A rearrangement of the planning system was the necessary consequence of the new tasks it was called upon to perform.

He said there was no point in the fund's issuing bonds unless and until it was called upon to help a member state.

If it was called upon to assist in the rescue effort, it could get to the sea ice edge near the Shokalskiy in eight or nine days.

This means that although a company should spend 2% of its net profit on CSR projects and programmes, if, in a financial year, it does not do so, it is called upon to provide an "explanation" on its website and also in the Annual Director's Report.

Today it is called upon to do the same again.

Often, it is called upon to enact the primal drama of loss and compensation.

Should it be called upon to play a major role in stabilizing the euro zone, the I.M.F.

It's called upon to size up the real world and figure out how to build its power.