Sentences with phrase «dreaded phone call»

When I made the dreaded phone call to the brush's owner, he was very gracious.

Just before they are about to hear a verdict, he gets the dreaded phone call informing him that his mother has passed away.

One generalization I can make is that DoDEA schools see parents as partners, whereas many public schools view parents as the enemy and dread phone calls or conferences, according to Crystal Hoel, a former DoDEA teacher who now teaches in the public schools.

The problem with this approach is obvious: you may one day get that dreaded phone call saying the debt is out of control.

Its first post, entitled «The Dreaded Phone Call...», addresses the following interesting scenario:

Unfortunately, many parents receive the dreaded phone call that their child was injured while under the watch of their daycare.

I have many clients who have made these dreaded phone calls and the results have been positive.

You're usually on a roll, whether it be working with opposing counsel on a settlement or knocking out an appellate memo and you get the dreaded phone call.

After that dreaded phone call, how did you handle the emergency travel arrangements?

So many insurance consumers are used to bland websites, labyrinthian forms, and the dreaded phone call with a sales agent who's trying to push an expensive, unnecessary policy on them.

It's really no different than that dreaded phone call in the middle of the night, or the knock on the door in the middle of the night, and you just know that something awful has happened.

There was a slight mix - up as to our reservation (property owner's, not the rental company's) so I was worried when I placed my dreaded phone call to one of «the Diane's».