Sentence examples for once called upon from inspiring English sources

His son, once called upon, proved similarly electric.

Recognized as one of the nation's foremost authorities on mortgage financing and acquisitions, he was once called upon to negotiate the purchase of the entire DeBartolo Empire.

It has gone through several ownership changes, some of them involving roguish characters and a chief executive who was once called upon to testify in the bribery trial of an Illinois governor.

Some believe it has run its course; others are cautiously optimistic that there is life yet in the messy, unruly productions that the poet and playwright Heiner Müller once called upon to overthrow "the tyranny of geometry".

Here's how it works: Once called upon, the questioner stands, announces their name, title and organisation.

Once called upon (by Nature) to incubate others, once a mother and grandmother (analog or virtual), women are also--I believe--called upon to love our immense common mother, to nurture her as she has nurtured all of us, in all her myriad incarnations (from the coral to Caretta caretta).

Less than a week after their return, Battleship Division Nine was once again called upon to protect the Scandinavian Convoy as part of a general Grand Fleet response to intelligence reports suggesting German battlecruisers were loose in the North Sea.

(Robert once called the Sears Tower, upon which he almost died in 1999, "his Everest").

Watch out as, in a year or two, taxpayers are once more called upon to bail out the sinking ship – and expected to "comprehensively socialise investment".

The Northwestern University law professor Steve Lubet said: "There would definitely be calls for her recusal in a rerun of Bush v Gore," if the court were once again called upon to decide the results of a presidential election.

Mr. Bush once again called upon the Senate to pass a bill central to his "compassionate conservative" agenda that would make it easier for religious groups other than giant institutions like Catholic Charities to apply for federal money.