Example sentences of "he called for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But last Thursday he made a spectacular return with a speech to party militants in Montlouis , on the outskirts of Tours , in which he called for a political ‘ big bang ’ in order to bring about the emergence of a new centre left party as part of a recomposition of the whole of the French political scene .
2 Last Thursday , however , he made a spectacular return with a speech to party militants in Montlouis , on the outskirts of Tours , in which he called for a political ‘ big bang ’ in order to bring about the emergence of a new centre-left party as part of a recomposition of the whole of the French political scene .
3 He called for a gotong-royong Cabinet composed of all political groups , including the PKI .
4 He called for a one-day strike in September .
5 When I met him at Wentworth earlier this week he called for a peaceful Ryder Cup match against the Americans at The Belfry in September .
6 Instead he called for a new security order based either on " trilateral Soviet-Japanese-US consultations and concrete agreements " , or a five-power conference involving China , India , Japan , the Soviet Union and the USA .
7 He called for a new partnership economy with the private and public sectors working together .
8 In his ‘ April Theses ’ he called for a revolutionary government based on the Soviets and empowered to control the banks , production and distribution .
9 He called for a general election .
10 He called for a general strike to oppose " the rightist , reactionary , anti-constitutional coup " .
11 But one can sympathise with Mr Justice Henry , the now redundant Guinness judge , when he called for a radical re-appraisal of the way big fraud cases are handled .
12 According to C.-in-C. of CIS Armed Forces Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , it now remained for Ukraine to recognize Russia 's jurisdiction over nuclear weapons located on its territory , and he called for a Russian-Ukrainian summit to discuss the issue .
13 Bonar Law was prepared to make the right noises — in 1913 at Manchester he called for a positive social policy in Disraelian lines for " the swing of the pendulum is not enough " , but he would give no more active support .
14 He called for a single European standard for everything from track size to signalling and from staff training to rolling stock .
15 Speaking on Sept. 29 , he called for a special session of the Assembly on this issue , and welcomed the United Kingdom 's proposal to convene ( in April 1990 ) an international conference on drug demand reduction .
16 Eric Stephen said he thought that a of method getting people into the scheme was ‘ off the rails ’ and he called for a large input of help and direction while Andrew Macfarlane said that unless the end user guaranteed a premium farming leaders could ‘ forget FASL ’ .
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