Last year, World Bank chief Bob Zoellick called for a return to the gold standard, while Chinese officials have been calling on the US to fix its finances so as to correct global imbalances.
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Earlier this month, Lexar Media escalated a patent spat with Toshiba, calling for the US to ban imported memory cards that are made by its Japanese rival.
The US is calling for the matter of Iran's nuclear program to be brought before the United Nations Security Council.
It seems like yesterday that we were playing in the final four first game against UCLA. I remember NBC announcer Curt Goudy kept calling us DUKE until the end of the first half when UCLA was only ahead of us by three points.
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Now the German government has put another hot issue on the table by calling for the removal of all US nuclear weapons from German soil.
"This virtual march on Washington will allow every American opposed to the war to stand up and be counted, by calling, faxing and emailing the US Senate and the White House, " Sheen says in the ad.
On the other hand, the Netanyahu government and Congress are calling for a US aid cutoff to the Palestinian Authority.
"People were calling us from the league office and saying we were crazy, " says team president Jonathan Kraft.
"Please stop calling us on the eve of your games, " Divine Evehe, regarded as the best referee in the country, told the club owners.
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Of these, "The Calling of Matthew" initiates, and calls us to, the master's complex, dramatic, final phase.
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But in the aftermath of the weekend's assault on the embassy, voices from across the political spectrum in the US are calling for a reassessment of US relations with Egypt.
Whether, individually, we are conservatives or liberals or somewhere in the middle, we have a right to expect the people who have been hired to solve the country's problems to do just that, and to spare us the name-calling and blame-shifting.
Facing a similar situation in these days, the US is now calling upon China to take similar measures.
We need alternatives and are calling on the city to join with us and to seek another path.
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Environmental concerns shaped his eventual decision, drawing criticism from those backing the pipeline and calling for greater US energy independence.
It may sound superficial, but a fit and energetic appearance is a key calling card in the work world for us boomers.
"But their actions once in difficulty, by putting up their tent and calling us, undoubtedly prevented the outcome from being far more serious, " he added.
The quaint hiss and crackle of the blunted needle as it gently rose and fell with the warp of the album sounded like the ether, through which the dead were hopelessly calling to us.
It provides free calls and text messages within the US and Canada and has some of the lowest international calling rates around.
Fox News, the most watched news channel in the US, has gone the other way by blaming the Democrats and calling their plans nothing short of ridiculous.
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Testifying to Congress in September 2007 alongside the then US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, the general warned Democrats calling for an early withdrawal date that such a move might have "devastating consequences".
The Arab League and the European Union joined us in calling for an end to violence.
But it is not enough and Starbucks, Citibank, Google, Banana Republic and a few others are calling on us to do more to revive the American economy.
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For those of us who feel comfortable calling out the NRA crowd for hiding behind the Second Amendment, consider the actions of the Hollywood crowd, which hides behind the First Amendment in its manipulative glorification of gun violence.
The Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) was created in 1976 by President Ford in response to recommendations made by the Rockefeller Commission calling for a Presidential-level body with specific oversight responsibilities for the legality and propriety of US intelligence activities.
President Khatami, who came to power in 1997, has encouraged increased people-to-people contact with the US but has stopped short of calling for talks.
The film has caused a storm of protest in the US, with the editor of the respected trade journal, The Hollywood Reporter, calling it "morally repulsive".
When Fred grew bored with us and showed signs of calling for the check, Walt would ask him for investment advice, claiming to have considerable funds stashed away.
That brings us to the motives of the person calling himself "FOIA" who leaked the emails onto the Internet last week.
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