Sentence examples for popular calling from inspiring English sources

Word leaked that Sox pitcher Josh Beckett had been playing golf two days before he missed a start due to injury concerns, launching a string of bad puns in the press ("off course" seems popular), calling into question his commitment to the team, and further alienating him from Boston fans.

Foss described one popular calling scam making the rounds: The caller tells people that their son or daughter -- or doctor -- just ordered them a Medic Alert system.

To celebrate, the company has launched version 2.3 of the popular calling and messaging app, with brand new features for iOS and Android users.

Hawkins' famous nickname 'Tomahawk', is a play on his first name and surname, with references to a tomahawk axe or tomahawk missile, and has proven a popular calling card within the league.

Steven Pinker is a psychology professor at M.I.T. and the author of an entertaining and popular book on language (his specialty), called "The Language Instinct," and a more wide-ranging volume, also popular, called "How the Mind Works".

However, this is quite computationally expensive especially for problems with large datasets and therefore an inductive or batch setting has become popular, called Inductive Conformal Prediction (ICP) [14].

PHOTOS: 2013's year of controversial rap lyrics The song first appeared Wednesday morning in teaser for a new installment of the wildly popular  "Call of Duty" franchise.

Yet popular calls for more state involvement in the economy could backfire in the long term.

There is no popular call to leave Europe or the single currency.

"It was not a popular call in all corners, to say the least," the Administration official said.

It is not a popular call for any minister, but it is to be hoped Gove will have the courage.