Sentence examples for phrase calling for from inspiring English sources

Jerome Valcke, FIFA's secretary general, infuriated Brazil's sports authorities when he recently referred to the delays, employing a polemical phrase calling for a kick in the backside to get things moving.

Beginning in 1933, when an advertising agency discovered him working at the New Yorker Hotel, the uniformed man in the pillbox hat stretched out the phrase "Call for Philip Morris," as if he were paging someone in a hotel lobby.

But this Cooper-prime character, with his blankness and his imitative bellow ("Hellooo-ooo-ooo," three syllables, already a meme), is also a figure of pathos and a mirror of indifference: he keeps repeating the one phrase that Jade left him with—"Call for help"—and not one of the many people he encounters in the casino, to whom he utters that seemingly unambiguous phrase, calls for help.

The platform obliquely endorses a concept known as fast track -- without using that phrase -- calling for broad presidential powers to negotiate trade compacts without Congressional approval.

After more than a year of closed-door negotiations, the President and other Democrats have finally appropriated a Republican phrase by calling for "an up or down vote" on the resulting health reform legislation.

It was a time of remarkable ferment and innovation, marked by what Jennings, who has a gift for the striking phrase, calls a belief that "society seemed like something to be invented, rather than merely endured".

7 Especially relevant for PCs are the new P-statements with the phrase: 'Call a POISON CENTER or doctor/physician'.

Bill Maher's coined a phrase called "Whataboutism".

But Moran's deficit-neutral provision includes a phrase that pleased advocates, calling for "increasing funding to account for inflation".

We started seeing phrases in the ads calling for particular skills: "a Ph.D. Cell Biologist with experience in CHO cell line development needed for growing biotechnology company".

But at a moment calling for decisiveness, he is, in Churchill's phrase, "resolved to be irresolute".