It is not an understatement to call him a lighting rod around the world.
"It's been an absolute honour and a privilege to play with him and even more so to call him a mate, " said McGrath.
Dr Daniel Ubani, who was struck off by the General Medical Council, claimed Rory and Stuart Gray should not be able to call him a "killer" and "charlatan".
And in the clubby atmosphere of the House of Commons, where he sat for 36 years (but only five as a minister), even his sternest critics were reluctant to call him a racist, a British Le Pen.
When he messily switched teams, gave up his Alpha Dog status to teammate Dwyane Wade, and still failed to win a championship in his first year, the naysayers seized on every opportunity to call him a choke artist, a waste of talent, a loser.
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It is a real personal pleasure for me to introduce him to you today, and an honor, and I might say a personal pleasure for me to call him I hope a life-long friend, someone that we'll be able to spend some time with, notwithstanding his other obligations, but to spend a lot of time with.
Mr Murphy has said he plans to call him as a witness at the standards hearing.
"At this point, I wouldn't hesitate to call him as a witness, " he said.
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Nat, his agent, goes so far as to call him "a special, idealistic type, " a line that came close to making me laugh out loud.
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The singer was one of the most enduring stars of the 1960s and '70s, whose easy style and mellow voice led President Ronald Reagan to call him "a national treasure".
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada was the only Democrat to vote with Republicans, a procedural move that allows him to call a new vote, likely on Feb. 25.
As the net closed around Baron, accomplice Walter Callinan tried to disguise a warning to him during a phone call.
Ranta "claimed he had signed a blank file folder ... only because he thought it was a form to allow him to make a phone call, " court papers said.
But recently he got a phone call asking him to play in a Sevens tournament in Bulgaria with some old friends from the amateur era, and having caught the bug again, played in another one a couple of weeks later.
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On the same day, January 21, Peter , received a call from the Harefield to tell him a heart had become available.
Look for him to call for a bipartisan summit with congressional leaders later this month, possibly at Camp David, an idea first pushed by moderate Sen.
The GWPC representative who I spoke with (it took me about 45 seconds to make this call and get in touch with the right person there) told me that, had the Harvard researchers bothered to give him a call, he and others at the GWPC could have cleared up a lot of their obvious confusion about how the system works.
And in fairness to Merrington, it would be difficult to criticise him for a judgement call that any top manager has had to make during his time.
"I had a feeling he was OK, but I ran to the Internet place to call him, " said Ashton, a political science junior at Davidson College in North Carolina.
The White House on Friday reiterated Bush's frequent call for Congress to send him a housing bill.
But just before Super Tuesday, Fairey says, he got a call from the campaign telling him to go ahead and make a poster and distribute it in his typical guerrilla fashion.
Blacks prefer to address him more formally, while whites prefer to call him by his first name, (a sign of disrespect in black church culture), Woo says.
And so the steps we have taken have been all in one direction, if you will, which is to put pressure on Syria to make clear that Assad has lost his legitimacy to rule and to further isolate his regime as we call on him to cease the violence and to begin a democratic transition in that country.
Later, when he tried to make a phone call from a police station in Tehran, Athanasiadis said security forces tackled him, threw him to the ground, beat him with a club and pepper-sprayed him.
In 1995 a buddy told him to check out a six-person call center running out of an air-conditioned trailer at a minimum security prison.
So I have placed a call to him but I don't know what is going to happen.
"My plan is to give Deron a call and tell him exactly what took place, " Colangelo said.
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