"taking roll call" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the process of calling out and recording the names of individuals to confirm their presence or attendance. Example: The teacher began the class by taking roll call, checking off each student's name as they responded with "here" or "present."
Among other communication problems, the investigators found, firefighters split up and were unaccounted for at times, a procedure for taking roll call was ineffective, and commanders were unable to use radios to locate disabled firefighters.
Other phrases from Ferris Bueller's Day Off such as Stein's nasally-voiced "Bueller?...Bueller?...Bueller?" (while taking roll call in class), and "Anyone?
This week, Pacquiao joked that his Congress can take "roll call here," because more than 60 congressmen came to Las Vegas for the fight.
The ideology of governors can sometimes be hard to measure because they do not take roll call votes, as members of Congress do.
One teacher took roll call of those students who gathered around the damaged school, just as she does daily, although this time it was to determine who had survived and who was still trapped inside.
Officers took roll call at regular intervals, and no man was allowed to leave the ranks unless he was too unwell to keep up with his company or needed to answer the call of nature, and then for only a few minutes — in which case he was not permitted to take his musket, which was carried by another man, lest he try to desert.
Vanessa Engle's numbing film looks at one year, taking a roll call of the 86 women killed by their partners or former partners.
The church has intellectual resources that are not exhausted by taking a roll call of its clergy.
They suggest that, rather than merely taking a roll call of the microbes that are involved with different states of health and disease, we ought to remember their genetic dynamism, too.
In 2006, Hong Kong was the first to ban the use of biometrics in schools, with an official calling it "excessive" and noting that there are much less intrusive ways of taking a roll call.
There was no clear sign that the effort would have ultimately succeeded, but the matter was made a moot point after Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark)., who was presiding over the convention at the time, informed the delegates that a sufficient number of those states had withdrawn their petitions ― taking the roll call vote proponents below the seven-state threshold required to demand the vote. .
