make a call

"It was either one or the other. Every step along the way we've had to make a call of 'you can only have your best team at one of these series'."

But if things can go wrong at carefully managed resorts, imagine how much risk there is in the backcountry where nobody patrols, cellphone signals are spotty and, even if you can make a call, help might take hours to reach you.

“Behind the scenes you can definitely make a call and say, ‘Hey, would there be interest?’

But the pressure is building on them to make a call.

"Essentially, we have a human being and technology calling the same line. The electronic line call can overrule the human eye. Therefore, why do we need the line judge to make a call at all?"