1.   Hardly the kind of ringing call to arms to send campaign workers off to do battle with their opponents.

2.   Humphrey, the mayor of Minneapolis, triggered a walk-out by Southern delegates with a ringing call for civil rights.

3.   Instead of endorsing an indefinite extension of the pact, Boutros-Ghali delivered a ringing call for disarmament.

4.   She issued a ringing call for zero tolerance policing and heightened punishment for drug offenders.

5.   The three calamities deliver a ringing call for vigilance.

6.   This is not exactly a ringing call to arms and is not quite what he originally described as his ultimate goal.

7.   With Castro and other senior Cuban officials in the front row at a mid-morning Mass, the pope delivered a ringing call for pluralism here.

8.   Kantor, addressing US business executives here, acknowledged worldwide fears of US agricultural dominance and issued a ringing call for economic justice in the United States.