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Example sentences for "called attention"

  • Arts and Crafts movement, called attention to how much more beautifully the Thirteenth Century workman in the precious metals accomplished his artistic purpose than does the corresponding workman of the present day.

  • In my last annual message I called attention to the necessity of protecting by suitable legislation the forests situated upon the public domain.

  • In my message of last year I called attention to the prevalent lawlessness upon the borders and to the necessity of legislation for its suppression.

  • Mr. Chadwick in his speech proved that much more might be done, for he called attention to the German army, where the death rate from disease has been reduced to between five and six in a thousand.

  • In it I called attention to the necessities of my troops and to the equipment necessary for any extended campaigning.

  • I called attention to the striking parallel between our practices and those that had been in use in the first French Republic, and to the identical mischiefs which had resulted.

  • On January 21 I called attention to the anomaly of bounding the department by the Kanawha River on the south, and correction was at once made by General McClellan.

  • I called attention to the loss to the people by counterfeiting, which could not be avoided when we had such a multitude of banks.

  • I called attention to the then increasing volume of local currency in the United States.

  • Some years ago Sir James Paget called attention to the frequency of adhesive phlebitis as a gouty lesion.

  • Mrs. Upton, the treasurer, called attention to the mistaken idea conveyed through the newspapers that the association had unlimited funds.

  • He called attention to the resolutions of the House passed in February, compelling the attendance of members on Committees.

  • He called attention to the large number of petitions which had been sent in, asking for this, and to the fact that not a single remonstrance had been received.

  • Last week we called attention in The Revolution to the earnestness of the English women in urging their claim to the right of suffrage, and appealed to American women from their example.

  • It called attention to the abuses in appointing commissioners, notaries and familiars, whose multitude and general unworthiness resulted in greatly impairing the authority of the Inquisition.

  • Richardson, librarian of Princeton University, called attention to the fact that the principle of unrestricted access to the shelves required hearty co-operation between the college public and the library staff.

  • Prince, librarian of the Maine state library, called attention to the courses in legal bibliography which were being given at various law schools.

  • It called attention to the existence of the various library schools and referred the interested student to the college librarian or to the Secretary of the A.

  • Köster[57] called attention to the regularity of the occurrence of miliary tubercles in the fungous granulations of the inflamed joints of scrofulous and tuberculous individuals.

  • In my last annual message I called attention to the fact that some legislative action was necessary in order to protect the interests of the Government in its relations with the Union Pacific Railway.

  • I called attention to this subject in my last annual message, and now again respectfully appeal to Congress to declare the national will unmistakably upon this important question.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    articulate language; called also; called attention; called back; called because; called definitions; called forth; called good; called her; called him; called holy; called natural; called out; called reformation; called them; called upon; different language; excellent remedy; extent that; hand grenades; land will; love him; must endeavor; necessary result; return mail; word only