Example sentences of "he called for the [noun] " 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 EC to support calls for international supervision of the security situation and of the elections . |
9 | He called for the backing of his critics . |
10 | He called for the convening of the Congress of People 's Deputies and the immediate signing of the Union Treaty . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 ) . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
15 | Condemning the involvement of United States citizens and of local lawyers and judges , he called for the media to launch investigations at Asunción airport . |
16 | 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 ] . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | In one speech he called for the creation of several " Hong Kongs " along China 's coast . |
20 | In October 1989 he called for the fusion of seven parties into " one big party of the centre-right by the beginning of 1992 " . |