Sentence examples for plainly called for from inspiring English sources

The situation plainly called for bold action, and Officer Juan M. Ornelas met the challenge by brandishing a Taser and asking Ms. Brooks if she knew what it was.

In Egypt, women not infrequently ruled as regents, with the title King's Mother, but Hatshepsut's ascent to full pharaoh-hood, with a legitimate male heir at hand, plainly called for an ideological campaign of considerable dexterity.

The original Russian intention was to try to compel American cooperation, firstly in the war against jihadism and, more generally, to compel the U.S. and Europe to acknowledge that their own security interests intersect directly with those of Moscow and that this intersection plainly calls for partnership rather than confrontation.

A pair of newly launched apps – one oddly dubbed "Ice Cream" and another more plainly called "Room for More" – want to address this problem by offering an iCloud alternative that can help users take better advantage of their mobile devices.

But stocks in private companies generally come under the heading "other" securities, though sometimes they're plainly called "restrictive".

The segment concluded with the MPAA providing a canned statement that plainly called Kim Dotcom a thief.

Let's just boldly and plainly call a spade a spade.

The tiny figure of Mrs Wilberforce (Wilberforce was the name of the 19th-century idealist who called for the abolition of slavery) is plainly a much diminished Britannia.

"Congress spoke plainly" in requiring full disclosure, she wrote, and even the Citizens United decision called for disclosure of the unlimited corporate and union donations it permitted.

He hinted that he was in favour of quantitative easing, which both America and Britain have used, and he called for fiscal policy to do more to encourage growth a message plainly aimed at Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel.

That's not strictly true: plainly we would have dropped any of our artists' covers, if, for argument's sake, they had called for the expulsion of all Muslims.