Sentence examples for on a roll call from inspiring English sources

Along the way he's done the lighting for Sammy Davis Junior, Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, Tommy Cooper, Sarah Vaughan... the list goes on, a roll call of true showbiz legends such as Josephine Baker, Bette Davis and Ella Fitzgerald.

But in addition to expressionists such as Kokoschka, Adams – who after the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre fled to settle in London – seemed to have picked up on a roll call of figurative painterly contemporaries.

The bipartisan vote, 57 to 42, was the first time either house of Congress had moved to protect gay people on a roll call that could have political consequences.

He said two congressmen who held a news conference to complain that they had not been seen on television when their state cast its votes on a roll call were forgetting it was "Super Bowl time," when only Republicans should be blocked and tackled.

The motion "to authorize the use of Department of Defense funds for abortion in case of rape and incest," passed on a roll call vote of 16-10.

But the joy of the reunions was tempered by Memorial Day remembrances, by the deaths of comrades in Iraq, and by the loss of two sailors from the Nassau in recent days -- one who fell into the ocean chasing a football on deck on Friday and a second who did not show up for a roll call on Sunday morning.

As a prison officer stood on a balcony, reading out a roll call of the dead and survivors from a handwritten list, faces in the crowd turned away in tears.

State Senate President Mike Ellis (R) then called for a roll call vote on the measure, over the objections of Democrats shouting from the chamber.

A group of anti-Trump delegates at the Republican National Convention pressed unsuccessfully for a roll call vote on the convention rules Monday afternoon, only to be quashed by convention officials.

had made it his personal mission to overturn the so-called Spitzenkandidaten process, in part because of his damming take on a roll-call of Brussels insiders, but also to resist an overt power grab by the parliament.

"Index did not invest," said Klein, going on to give a roll call of who exactly did invest in the payday loans business.