He has strong feelings about Thomas Paine, author of the influential pamphlet "Common Sense," a call for armed revolution against English rule, written in 1776.
Food and nutrition have become, in a certain sense, a call to action.
This sense of being here to fulfill something bigger than pedestrian concerns is familiar to the one who senses a calling.
It was, in a sense, his calling card, a way of announcing his arrival to the artistic circles to which he longed to be welcomed.
Evidence suggests that some providers enter their professions owing to a sense of calling - a desire to help those in need [ 19, 37] and that inspiring health workers around the "mission" of care could be a powerful motivator [ 34].
Sensing a call to ordination from his schooldays, John Stott had sought exemption from war service.
It was during service as a captain in the Royal Artillery in Italy and Palestine that he first sensed a call to ordination.
Something in this sleepy moment, maybe feeling vulnerable in the weather or sensing a call for a cozy embrace, Lucas cried out as he does.
Wilberforce sensed a call from God, writing in a journal entry in 1787 that "God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners [moral values]".
Craig and Lynn Ann Bogard grew up in a small, predominantly white community in New Mexico but sensed a call to minister to African-American youth in central New Jersey after a short-term mission trip to the area in the early 1970s.
These proposals are, in a sense, calling the bluffs of political leaders.
