Sentence examples for practically calling for from inspiring English sources

The way he told it, Sidney Crosby was practically calling for a Canadian invasion of Minnesota.

Angry folks are practically calling for a public guillotining of a Wall St. fat cat or two.

Reaction has been predictably mixed and extreme, with Fox News analyst Ralph Peters calling for Snowden to be executed and previous national security whistle-blowers, Ellsberg included, practically calling for a statue to be erected in his honor.

Jamie Kellner, the chief executive of the Turner Broadcasting System, the AOL Time Warner unit that oversees CNN, practically called for a cooling of tensions today when he told reporters that the volume of the competition between the two networks had become "a little too high".

That the guy practically calling me "ma'am" set a Broncos postseason rookie rushing record and is assiduously working to improve pass coverage for you-know-who.

Where once there were limited, discreetly shelved selections of what Victorians termed "unmentionables," there is now a welter of choices offered in displays so unabashedly raunchy they practically call out for some form of ratings system or, at the minimum, parental controls.

But the atmosphere on the nearly-full 9,165-seat main show court at the Olympic Tennis Center was all the better under the lights as the well-lubricated audience chanted, sang, waved flags and cheered raucously between every point, leaving chair umpire Pascal Maria practically hoarse from calling for order.

These were poets who practically called him a murderer, and they were allowed to stick around, for years.

He practically called in the military.

When listing agents were calling for feedback on perfectly lovely homes and practically begging me to get my clients to write an offer, I knew there was trouble.

Simple syrup works wonders in practically any cocktail that calls for a sweetener.