calling

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Every candidate enters a contest with a backstory and a record, which is condensed to a summary that serves as calling card, strategic foundation and a rationale for their run.

From Los Angeles Times

As the group left City Hall that afternoon, hundreds of demonstrators had gathered in the streets, carrying signs calling for the end of the immigration raids.

From Los Angeles Times

However, when Newcastle came calling again, a few months later, he opted to join Paris St-Germain before later moving on to Eintracht Frankfurt.

From BBC

Campaigners trying to prevent the closure of the UK's oldest surviving Indian restaurant are going to take a petition to Buckingham Palace in the next few weeks, calling on King Charles III to intervene.

From BBC

Over the last three decades, many cities, towns and roads in South Africa have been renamed, replacing them with indigenous ones or calling them after heroes of the struggle against apartheid.

From BBC