Sentence examples for was called upon to write from inspiring English sources

It had worked fine until he was called upon to write a message of regret upon the death of Al Smith.

I think that being a writer is my vocation — in the original sense of the word: I was called upon to write.

And for the show's two-part 100th-episode celebration Mr. Jones was called upon to write a lengthy parody of Gilbert and Sullivan's "I've Got a Little List," performed by the "Family Guy" homicidal baby, Stewie, and a jingle for a fictitious product called Hilary Swank's Breast Milk.

According to Mark Thomas McGee, author of Roger Corman: The Best of the Cheap Acts, each time Katz was called upon to write music for Corman, Katz sold the same score as if it were new music.

Over the last five years I have been called upon to write about beards on a number of occasions.

Their lobbying campaign stretched all the way to New York, where Gov. George E. Pataki and Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani were called upon to write supportive letters to the crucial New York delegation.

10 P.M. (NBC) THE APPRENTICE -- In the latest round of Donald Trump's reality-competition series, teams are called upon to write an advertising jingle for a restaurant chain.

It is the ministry, for instance, that will be called upon to write a plan for which oil fields will be developed and drilled first, and which ones will follow.

"For example, participants will be called upon to write in the details of Emma's alternate realities, the basis of which will be produced into a digital comic series.

When I am called upon to write about the mostly fictional entity called Spinal Tap, I usually do so in the mostly fictional character of David St Hubbins, long-time guitarist/clothes-horse for said group.

I wanted to let him know that when I had later been called upon to write the lead judgment in the same-sex marriages case, the most difficult problem had been how to acknowledge the coexistence of the sacred and the secular in a single constitutional realm, showing equal concern and principled respect for the gay pride marchers and the Christian lawyers.