Before the holidays, there had been an ESPN mea culpa-ish in which the company president said that the network probably should have toned it down on meaningless nonsense like the Tebow watch, and these comments were interpreted as a kind of urgent call for sports sanity.
Many people put off getting a will until they have some kind of a wakeup call.
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Another theory is that the clash was meant to be a kind of wake-up call from Pyongyang - trying to grab the attention of the U.S. now that its preoccupation with Yugoslavia might be ending.
Chief SIZER: Well, it really depends on the kind of a call you're responding to, the information you receive about the call, whether or not the suspect description indicates any violence or whether or not the individual may be armed with a weapon.
That's what Scientology would call a kind of noisy investigation.
When that bell rings, it takes a special kind of courage to answer the call and rush, at great risk to yourself, to help your fellow citizens.
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And then, one day, her secretary convinced her to take the kind of call from a corporate headhunter that she had always declined to take in the past.
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Mr. WILLIE PARKER (Pittsburgh Steelers Running Back): It was a good play call, and we kind of got them with their pants down.
If it is that kind of comment, call a lawyer.
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"You can call the Revolutionary Guard a kind of government inside the government of Iran, " he said.
Not exactly the kind of guy who will get a phone call from White asking for my suggestions.
Ok, so maybe it's not the lamest thing we've ever heard of, but anyone who has ever lived in Britain knows that it costs a lot more to call a cellphone there than it does to call a landline (unlike here in the States where it costs the same to call any kind of phone).
Both the composition and the color of the images are stirringly beautiful, but they feel loaded with symbolism and sentiment: an emaciated man swaying with exhaustion during an interminable roll call appears to be experiencing a kind of transcendent ecstasy, like Joan of Arc on the pyre.
He kind of doubled down on those remarks after a call from Secretary Clinton.
The men whisper, in a kind of awe, the exact departure times, the ports of call - Brindisi, Venice - the transit times, the names of the ships.
By the same token, the yearning for government spending on "infrastructure" to stimulate economic activity creates an opening for the new president to push the kind of green projects that fit his call for a transition to alternative energy sources, including new kinds of mass-transit systems.
This kind of call is odd, as there is rarely a need to tell clients to "hold" what you have never told them to buy.
Meanwhile, Mr Thackeray, who had now become a kind of authoritarian leader who could get things done with a mere phone call, shifted to a different stance.
People do not care what kind of technology they are using when they are making a phone call or downloading a ringtone, says Julian Horn-Smith, Vodafone's chief operating officer.
They would love a bit of what you might call proper inflation - not the kind we have had recently, in which living standards have been squeezed by jumps in energy or food prices that cuts consumers' spending power, but the sort we haven't seen for years, pay rises.
Still, if this was unilateralism, it was of a most unusual kind: co-operative unilateralism, you might call it.
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They may be primed to become powerful platforms for the kind of triple-A titles you see on the Xbox or PS3 like Call of Duty: Black Ops or Mass Effect 2.
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Protestors therefore made a call for all religions to come together and develop an approach to this kind of material.
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Any other reaction would, quite rightly, be interpreted by the world as some kind of acquiescence to the new formal status of an organisation whose constitution contains a a clear call for the destruction of a UN member state - Israel.
Kind of like when the SEC notices that too many call options were purchased in a single account just prior to a buy-out or merger.
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It reduced Grenell's visibility, keeping him off a conference call with media where someone might ask about the social-conservative criticism, that kind of thing.
It's a state of being, and like a doctor who delivers babies, I'm on call all the time because that's the kind of work this is.
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