call someone up
call someone up
Building materials were costly or unavailable and labour, given the call-up, was also lacking.
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But simply refusing to respond to the call-up is not, in itself, necessarily indicative of anything more than a desire for selfpreservation, as understandable as that desire might be.
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As presumably agricultural labourers will be exempt in the event of an emergency, could he not do something to prevent their call-up now?
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What it did not do was to give them power to enforce in this country their call-up.
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Could he not arrange for a special re-examination nearer to the time of call-up?
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In the last war several by-elections were fought in which people stood as candidates on call-up issues.
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That is the result of the severe call-up.
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He was referring particularly to the new call-up of women between 46 and 51 years of age.
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I do not propose to say more than a word about the controversy regarding the call-up and registration of women between 45 and 50.
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There is no justification for this further tightening up of the call-up of this country.
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I hope that call-up will be large and on an imaginative scale, and that it will not be confined to certain groups of industry.
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At least a fortnight’s notice of a man’s call-up is given to the employer.
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The question of reserves and of a call-up enters into this.
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The arrangements for the suspension of the call-up of some agricultural farm workers are not appropriate to agricultural scientists.
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I can only, on the ground of hardship, postpone his call-up or re-call, as the case may be, to enable him to make other arrangements.
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