Calling-in Sentence Examples

I can't imagine them missing her Aunt Rose Abbott's service or at least calling in with their status.

You should have seen the look on her face when she came a calling in her antique duds and found me there!

Class loyalties run deep, and he called me up about twenty years ago and said he was calling in a favor my dad owed him.

They're calling in a strike.

As the companies grew in size and improved their discipline, it was seen by the Italian nobles that this kind of service offered a good career for men of spirit, who had learned the use of arms. To leave so powerful and profitable a calling in the hands of foreigners seemed both dangerous and uneconomical.

Whilst waiting his return Murat was enjoined to skirmish with Kutusov, and the emperor himself worked out a scheme to assume the offensive with his whole army towards St Petersburg, calling in Victor and St Cyr on the way.

Enactments about the pursuit of thieves, and the calling in of warrantors to justify sales of chattels, are other expressions of the difficulties attending peaceful intercourse.

Before the onset of those fierce invaders the precarious suzerainty of the khakan broke up. By calling in the Uzes, the Khazars did indeed dislodge the Petchenegs from the position they had seized in the heart of the kingdom between the Volga and the Don, but only to drive them inwards to the Dnieper.

Montanus claimed to have a prophetic calling in the very same sense as Agabus, Judas, Silas, the daughters of Philip, Quadratus and Ammia, or as Hermas at Rome.

The practice of calling in expert assistance in judicial inquiries was not confined to medico-legal cases.

The calling in of Pinkerton detectives from Chicago and New1690-1691-1691-16 931691-1693York to settle a strike in the Carnegie steel works at Homestead in 1892 precipitated a serious riot, in which about twenty persons were killed.

Never since literature became a calling in England had it been a less gainful calling than at the time when Johnson took up his residence in London.

His ancestors in the 18th century had sent recruits to the famous brigade of Irish exiles in the service of France,' and those who remained at home either lived as tenants on the possessions of which they had once been lords, or gradually made money by smuggling, a very general calling in that wild region.

The Hohenstaufen kings refused to admit this claim; hence the persistent hostility of the popes and the calling in of foreign potentates and armies.

This tendency of calling in state help marks a most striking difference as against the policy followed by the German towns, where all classes appear to have been always far too jealous of local independence.

A German firm runs vessels at approximately bi-monthly intervals from Singapore to Labuan and thence to Sandakan, calling in on occasion at Jesselton and Kudat en route.

The special reserve, converted from the militia, consists of infantry, field and garrison artillery, the Irish Horse (late Yeomanry), engineers, and a few A.S.C. and R.A.M.C. Its object is to make good on mobilization deficiencies (so far as they may exist of ter the calling in of the army reserve) in the expeditionary or regular forces, and to repair the losses of a campaign.

It was not till the next reign, when the bishops succeeded in calling in the crown to their aid, and passed the statute De heretico comburendo, that Lollardy ceased to flourish.

To suppress this rising the Edward king gathered a great force, carefully calling in to his drives banner all the peers who were offended with Warwick or, at any rate, did not belong to his family alliance.

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No sanctions are available to the chief for enforcing obedience to his orders, other than calling in agents of the Administration.

I will calling in at Yeovil Job Center and visiting the octagon in the evening.

For the majority of people, using a professional repair company or calling in a local repairman is the best option.

It provides access to all the products featured on the network and makes it possible to shop online instead of calling in an order.

It may require calling in a skilled seamstress to sew the tux from scratch.

Consider calling in your measurements early to have an idea of what gowns are available in your size.

From there, The Food Network came calling in 2001.

Since microwaves are fairly inexpensive, often less than $150 to replace, calling in a repair person may be impractical.

Addison's family comes calling in the form of brother Archer, which led to one crossover event with parent show Grey's Anatomy.

If your Venetian blinds are heavily soiled, you may consider calling in the experts.

It has become my calling in life, I have had so many wonderful experiences that have confirmed that raw is my destiny and calling, and I am so glad because it is my passion and I enjoy it so much.