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calling for
adjective as in requesting
Strong matches
- demanding
- petitioning
- requisitioning
- seeking
- soliciting
- wanting
- wishing
adjective as in requiring
Example Sentences
The issue has generated huge debate in Nigeria with many calling for an independent investigation.
Senator Uduaghan used Wednesday's plenary session to submit the petition calling for an investigation into Akpabio's behaviour.
The industry has been calling for flexibility if oil wells spread into nearby areas which are not licenced while current permits remain in place.
Republican politicians, to be fair, aren’t unanimous about calling for strings to be attached to disaster relief for California.
To do that, he said, his administration is rolling back restrictive energy policies to “drill, baby, drill,” calling for “tax cuts for everybody,” and instituting tariffs on U.S. trading partners, the latter of which he said “will take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs like we have never seen before.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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