(n.) The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.
(n.) That which is asked for or requested.
(n.) A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or asked for; demand.
(v. t.) To ask for (something); to express desire ffor; to solicit; as, to request his presence, or a favor.
(v. t.) To address with a request; to ask.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
(2) Pickles said that to restore its public standing, the corporation needed to be more transparent, including opening itself up to freedom of information requests.
(3) The authors have studied the different situations that prompt a request for genetic counseling if different members of the same family suffer from cancer.
(4) The eight senators, including the incoming ranking member Mark Warner of Virginia, wrote to Barack Obama to request he declassify relevant intelligence on the election.
(5) Initial proceedings in Carl Pistorius' trial had focused on a request by South Africa's national broadcaster, SABC, to show the trial proceedings live on national television or record them for later use.
(6) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
(7) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.
(8) It also pledged support to a veterans’ group that rejected a request by a gay, lesbian and bisexual group to march in the St Patrick’s Day parade in Boston.
(9) Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Australian policies in refugee crisis Read more Given that Obama – whatever one’s views on his strategy – is not advocating a bigger military contribution, the only difference is that Abbott is “urging” the US and others to do more, which sounds resolute, and Turnbull says he would consider any request if it was made.
(10) The latest annual report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has revealed that there was 582,727 requests for phone, web browsing and location data – commonly known as “metadata” – that can reveal detailed information about a person’s personal lives and associations.
(11) In a surprise telephone call to a US congressional hearing on Thursday night, Chen repeated his request to go to the US with his family and asked to meet Clinton.
(12) The American paper claimed Mr Jameel's company was one of a number of organisations being monitored at the request of law enforcement agencies, to prevent funds being channelled to terrorist organisations, a claim that turned out to be untrue.
(13) Also bear in mind that this request is just that, you are asking the club to place you on the transfer list, which they are perfectly entitled to reject.
(14) DNA studies were undertaken following 53 requests from pregnant women at risk for Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy, including 32 in whom there was only 1 affected individual in the family (sporadic cases).
(15) Tension heightened last week after Davis continued to refuse licenses to couples; on Friday, she filed a request to the supreme court to stay the lower court’s decision.
(16) This paper describes the counseling program implemented by a social worker and a family planning counselor for female clinic patients requesting sterilization.
(17) The Federal Penal Service rejected a request from Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova to serve their remaining time in Moscow; given the high profile nature of their case, they are afraid for their safety in the communal environment of a correctional colony.
(18) Requesting physicians explicitly identified "no money" or "no insurance" as the primary reason for transfer in 89 per cent of 164 cases in which these data were recorded.
(19) In the wake of her win, Aung San Suu Kyi has written to Min Aung Hlaing, the president, Thein Sein, and the parliamentary Speaker, Shwe Mann, requesting a meeting to discuss the election and “national reconciliation”, according to the National League for Democracy Facebook page.
(20) Access to besieged areas was a condition of a truce brokered earlier this year by the US and Russia , but the Syrian government has continued to ignore requests for aid deliveries, humanitarian officials say.
Sue
Definition:
(v. t.) To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.
(v. t.) To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.
(v. t.) To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.
(v. t.) To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.
(v. t.) To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.
(v. i.) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
(v. i.) To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.
(v. i.) To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.
(v. i.) To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Soon after the takeover, PFD creative director Sue Douglas, the former Sunday Express editor, left amid reports that the company wasn't big enough for "two alpha females in Chanel".
(2) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(3) Public health officials planned to sue these results to design and target education about the benefits of early initiation of breast feeding.
(4) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
(5) Sue Capon, who runs Brokerswood country park, said everyone was still coming to terms with the tragedy.
(6) Following the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance's Hoax of Hollywood conference in Tehran this week, it has been reported that Iran may "sue Hollywood" over what it considers to be unrealistic portrayals of the country in several films.
(7) Polonsky is hoping to sue Lebedev for libel and is seeking damages for defamation, his lawyer Andrew Stephenson has said.
(8) The law’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin of Indian Springs, said the measure would make the clinics safer, while clinic operators said it was an attempt to shut them down through a regulation they could not meet.
(9) In 2004 her action reached the US supreme court, which ruled that she could sue the Austrians.
(10) "If these things are not against the law we need amendments to the Equality Act", she said, adding that if they were against the law "we need to sue the backsides off people".
(11) Sue We’re the same people we were when we met as teenagers.
(12) He said he decided not to sue News International because he felt the only remedy was justice for the alleged perpetrators, not punishment of the press for the alleged criminal offences of a few.
(13) Sue Tibballs, chief executive of the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) , said she thought the Games could be a "genuine turning point".
(14) Therapists have been advised to become familiar with and sensitive to such characteristics and their manifestations and to be honest with themselves and patients about their prejudices (Sue et al.
(15) 2010s: In 2012, Sue Ellen is a very different woman.
(16) The landmark case, brought by a small environmental group through the UK courts, will allow people to sue the government for breaching EU pollution laws and will force ministers to prepare plans for many cities to improve air quality.
(17) Acid-base terminology including the sue of SI units is reviewed.
(18) They see angry shouting Steve Hedley-style pickets at every station, braziers at every street corner, and such general industrial unrest that there is a run on the pound and a broken and dejected Coalition government is obliged to sue for peace and throw its policies into reverse.
(19) Findus indicated it was ready to sue as the company announced it would on Monday file a complaint against an unidentified party.
(20) The return of a government headed by, for example, the centre-right New Democracy, would open up the possibility that Athens would sue for peace on the terms demanded by the troika.