Example sentences of "he called for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He called for the discharge of rebels from the Army , and for courts martial and lengthy sentences for the mutineers . |
| 2 | Estonian President Lennart Meri said that the suspension contradicted earlier agreements , and he called for the issue to be discussed by the foreign ministers of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) at their forthcoming meeting in Sweden . |
| 3 | He called for the air hostess , but she did not come . |
| 4 | He called for the resignation of the Minister , Antonin Hrazdira ( a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia — CPCz ) . |
| 5 | He called for the formation of an Association " to keep a jealous eye over their interests , educational , moral and social , " and concluded his speech by suggesting that a committee be formed to draft the constitution for submission to a convention later in the year . |
| 6 | He called for the bill . |
| 7 | In a move for which he would later pay , he called for the persecution of Deng Xiaoping , who was banished from office and attacked as second only to Liu as China 's ‘ leading capitalist roader ’ . |
| 8 | He called for the backing of his critics . |
| 9 | He called for the convening of the Congress of People 's Deputies and the immediate signing of the Union Treaty . |
| 10 | He called for the raising of the national minimum wage ; a Full Employment Act ; a national conservation scheme ; a programme of public works ; national control over atomic energy ; and , most controversial of all , a national health service . |
| 11 | The second point is best captured in Peter Hall 's 1982 defence of the enterprise zone model of urban policy , when , perhaps inadvertently , he called for the state to facilitate multinational corporations , ‘ doing in Liverpool what they already do in Singapore or Mexican border cities ’ ( 1982 , p418 ) . |
| 12 | He called for the inquiry to accept submissions from outside the service , for the final report to be published in full and for more resources to be provided if the report said they were needed . |
| 13 | Speaking after a visit to the Soviet Union , he said that the state of the Chernobyl plant was " shocking " , and he called for the closure of the three reactors still operational [ see Chernobyl article in this issue ] . |
| 14 | He called for the demobilization of police units in Croatia and the surrender of their weapons , and warned that attempts to change internal or external borders would not be tolerated . |
| 15 | A well known right-wing extremist , Gottfried Küssel , was arrested on Jan. 7 after the broadcast of a television interview in the United States in which he called for the restoration of the Nazi Party to power and the creation of a Fourth Reich . |
| 16 | In one speech he called for the creation of several " Hong Kongs " along China 's coast . |
| 17 | In October 1989 he called for the fusion of seven parties into " one big party of the centre-right by the beginning of 1992 " . |