Synonym: ask, bespeak, collect, demand, gather up, invite, involve, necessitate, need, pick up, postulate, quest, request, require, take. Similar words: call forth, fall for, on behalf of, call, recall, scale, call in, vocal. Meaning: v. 1. express the need or desire for; ask for 2. require as useful, just, or proper 3. request the participation or presence of 4. gather or collect.
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151. Hip replacements were once a rarity: now they can be carried out easily and the call for them has escalated.
152. What the report does call for is the total elimination of taxation on profits realized for the sale of appreciated assets.
153. It is a crusade to recapture Jerusalem, nothing short of a call for a new theocracy.
154. I thought maybe you could give Eddy's mom a call for me.
155. In Cairo 14 Arab League countries condemn the invasion and call for an immediate withdrawal.
156. My job entailed being on call for shipping in the harbour and for this reason I was loath to live outside Stornoway.
157. They keep the television at the front of the bed, and receive friends there when they call for tea.
158. They tell of phone numbers one can call for horoscopes, fortunes, curses, cures.
159. Isolation, the call for a lonely struggle against hostile critics, will not help.
159. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
160. The authors propose two ways forward: they encourage a change in attitudes and they call for some specific legislative measures.
161. They call for more research on the physiological and immunological changes caused by eating disorders, especially bulimia.
162. Available from salons only - call for your nearest stockist.
163. Arrange things so that there is always some one in the building who is on call for machine problems.
164. Resolutions continued to call for further economies and lower taxation, so the government got no credit for what it had done.
165. Some, like Senator Joe Biden, who opposed the use of force in the Gulf call for it now.
166. Open admissions was an easy call for the Left and the Right; for liberals, it was torment.
167. The charity used the occasion to call for fresh action to tackle the root causes of world poverty.
168. But he breaks with conservative Republicans who call for a moratorium on legal immigration.
169. This is the last call for limericks with an electoral theme.
170. The opposition call for a boycott of the election was almost universally observed yet the Government still claimed a landslide victory.
171. A key area of contention is the call for the wilderness to be opened to oil and gas drilling.
172. This would be as unrealistic and premature as Mr Rugova's call for immediate recognition of an independent state.
173. First, the memorial did not call for the dismissal of any women employed in Edinburgh at the time.
174. First there was Sir David Calcutt's report, with its call for a statutory complaints mechanism to curb press excesses.
175. It does not necessarily call for an ethical content, so facts are often distorted or falsified for self-interest.
176. It is such a cohesive, well-oiled unit that the band rarely has to call for outside assistance.
177. One was the poor, he said, repeating his call for people to help former welfare recipients move into work.
178. Powerful traditions call for its refusal; but nationalist pride may incite people to accept what they would instinctively reject.
179. In a recent meeting with council officials, he reiterated his call for its retention for the rugby team.
180. A uniform call for special deposits, it was argued, could upset their foreign business very substantially.
More similar words: call forth, fall for, on behalf of, call, recall, scale, call in, vocal, local, call up, call off, call on, fiscal, call back, logical, radical, ethical, medical, so-called, musical, typical, clinical, vertical, critical, basically, calendar, typically, tropical, chemical, ironically.