called for
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The education minister has called for £70m a year over the next decade for an executive-led SEN Capital Investment Programme to transform educational facilities.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
In other words, he called for ads celebrating himself.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Bass called for better evacuation planning and bigger fines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Traditional robotics called for machines that were mechanically predictable and easy to model.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The plan then called for a mammoth floating crane, as tall as one of England’s largest cathedrals, to hook into the framework and raise it upward and sideways to a position directly above the cradle.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
Feel free to replace the called-for spices with store-bought chili seasoning to taste.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2022
Check out this detailed walkthrough from Food 52 for making sufganiyot, but instead of the called-for apricot jam, consider a variation that uses blood orange marmalade.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2021
Too many people in that organization are overpaid and lack the called-for belly fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2020
He still seems to be in his £25,000 shepherd’s hut, writing this wildly called-for book of his, with the publication date now pushed back again to some unspecified date next year.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 2, 2018
But Dad hated unprintable words, and the fact that he had stood up for his son didn’t prevent him from holding a full-dress court of inquiry once he got home, and administering the called-for punishment.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
