I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a reasonable request
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He had refused to obey a reasonable request from a senior member of staff.
an appeal/request for aid
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International aid agencies launched an appeal for emergency aid.
ask for/request assistance
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Police are at the scene and have requested assistance.
grant...request
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Britain could grant Spain’s request .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
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Forms to arrange direct debit payment are available on request .
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A written quotation is available on request .
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The principles of corporate ownership are set out in multi-lingual editions of our detailed brochure available on request .
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Some companies can make women drivers available on request .
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Lloyds will add the extra words to cheques from mid-summer but will have the present cheques available on request .
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Prices start at £48,000; brochure and video available on request .
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Vegetarian meals can be provided, and packed lunches are available on request .
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Studentship application forms are available on request from the Secretary to the University.
formal
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There was some confusion, however, as to whether any formal requests for aid had been received.
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A Justice Department official said there was no record of any formal request by Wynn for a pardon.
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The Catholic Media Office said 2,094 made the formal request to be received into the Church at the cathedral services.
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A formal request for development proposals for the Ferry Building is being drafted now, Osmundson said.
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Following the formal request for a special prosecutor, Attorney General William Barr had up to 30 days to make a preliminary ruling.
special
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Meanwhile if you have any special requests or suggestions, please let him know as soon as possible.
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Some of the children had special requests , most of which I was able to fill.
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Or put in a special request of your own.
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Nevertheless, their routine schedule can be interrupted by special budget requests , meetings, and training sessions.
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Please note that special requests can not be guaranteed. 2.
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Have you any special requests ? 20.
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Jean provides a very good five-course evening meal and will cater for special diets on request .
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Guided Tours - Guided tours of the house are available to groups on special request .
specific
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The tsar adopted these suggestions but reduced the number of specific requests .
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D., residential phone numbers could be released to callers unless there is a specific request to stop that from happening.
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A specific request might require a count of all the grade 2 employees in the systems department.
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Any specific requests from the taxpayer regarding reallocations must be honoured by the collector.
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If there are other specific requests please let us know and we shall endeavour to satisfy them.
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The user presents a specific request to the system to which the system responds with a specific document.
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It was a modest kind of a funeral at old Eugene's specific request .
■ VERB
agree
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At least the President saw enough sense to agree to my request to put you in charge of the unit.
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The Orkney Fisheries Association executive committee has agreed that a request should be made to the Government.
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Giancarlo had agreed instantly to both requests and then forgotten about them.
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Baldwin agreed that the request for a special bill was reasonable and said that he would commend it to his colleagues.
comply
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His release from time-out required that he quieten down and comply with the original request on his return.
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Teachers respond most positively to those students who comply with their requests .
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Barker complied with the request by sending his son-in-law John Legatt.
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Museum Director Jim Ballinger said the museum will comply with both requests .
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Children can start to earn stickers for the chart every time they comply with the first request .
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Little did we realize he was making hundreds of dollars complying with those requests .
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The county council committee refused to comply with the request to remove Outram, pronouncing themselves well-pleased with their head-teacher.
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Now, he could comply with her request for as long as nature allowed.
consider
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We will consider requests to license limited specialist services to compete within the Post Office monopoly.
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The State Department said it was considering the request .
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Didn't you consider his request strange?
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The La Mesa City Council will consider the request today along with requests from six other parlors.
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Coutts had considered Virgin's request to exceed their overdraft by £200,000 over the next seven days.
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The council will not initiate a wholesale naming of roundabouts, but will consider any request to have one named.
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If a Central Authority considers that a request for service does not fall within the Convention it may reject it.
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The guidelines say that doctors should seriously consider requests from patients with incurable diseases who ask for their lives to be ended.
deny
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Because it has to be dealt with at a personal level, some find it difficult to deny the request .
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The league office denied Jones' request , saying Stewart has played this way all year.
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Last November, after Mr Wahid denied a pardon request , the younger Suharto went into hiding.
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In his ruling, Smalkin denied the request for damages.
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They denied a request by the hospital to repeat the study at their own expense.
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The ruling also denies a request from state health officials to have Lake County pay for 24-hour, guarded supervision of Sherrod.
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The commissioners said they denied Mr Stone's request to use this floor for fear of disrupting museum visitors.
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The Lurie Company denied his request .
file
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He filed a request for disciplinary action against Burgess.
follow
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The court will automatically serve the defendant by post following receipt of the request for a summons unless the plaintiff otherwise requests.
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Procedures following a request for accommodation Enquiry by letter 1.
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That had followed a request by the accused to see a senior officer.
grant
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The court will either grant the request on written application or fix a date for hearing.
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Of the physicians who had granted such requests , a majority said they had done so three times or fewer.
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Grudgingly, he would grant all requests soas to cease the torture inflicted on his friends.
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He would not grant requests for an interview.
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I ask you, Mr. Speaker, to grant my request to allow the House to consider this serious matter.
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She also persuaded Wotan to grant the request of King Rerir and his wife for a child.
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The 49-days' grace, backdated to Monday, was granted after a request by the firm's solicitors.
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The United States granted her request to become a political refugee.
ignore
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Firms which ignore the requests could face fines of up to £400.
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The lawsuit claims that Sagan ignored the request and went forward with the production of the movie.
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Or dealing with suppliers that ignore requests for raw materials.
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City staffers have ignored his requests for about a year.
make
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Can I please, through your letters page, make a request on behalf of all vendors of second-hand equipment?
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The fisherman made the request of the flounder, and this wish came true too.
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Certain unspecified revisions were made at the request of the Council of Constitutional Guardians.
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Like the other emissaries, present and absent, Aung San Suu Kyi made only modest requests of her audience.
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He then made two transfer requests and Wilkinson seized the first opportunity he could to unload the controversial star.
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The man making the humble request was Paul Tsongas, who just hours before had won the New Hampshire presidential primary.
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Don't demand, make a request .
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He said what he always said when she made a request .
meet
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Failure to meet this request might result in a lost contract.
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At first the class met the request with utter bafflement.
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Employees are empowered to use their initiative to meet requests .
receive
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This unit had just received a request from Colonel Keest in the Outer Hebrides for men to be taken off his hands.
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Thursday said it had received a request for information, but declined further comment.
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Even from his hon. Friends, the Minister has received a request to consider that matter again.
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The customer receives confirmation the purchase request has been forwarded, then he is given the name of the dealer.
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Charles received their requests with much apparent grace and favour.
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The Foreign Ministry said it had not received any immediate request for political asylum.
refuse
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The driver refused her requests for his number, and dumped her at the next stop.
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A judge refused last week a request by rival insurers to remove the Pennsylvania regulator from ruling on the case.
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It has refused the Cree's request for an undertaking not to commence logging until their outstanding land claim has been settled.
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To date, the Planning Department has refused the request , choosing instead to prepare a brief addendum.
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The small number of refused requests may appear unusual.
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But the judge refused a prosecution request to keep the accused rapist in jail by increasing his bail to $ 1 million.
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Technically she might also refuse a request for a dissolution, although it is hard to imagine her ever doing so.
reject
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Judge Nina Barkova rejected Pope's request during the trial for international medical aid.
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However it is quite proper to reject a request if the evidence is really being sought with a view to its use in criminal proceedings.
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He also rejected their requests to sequester the jury.
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The coroner, Peter Brunton, rejected a request to submit a technical report pointing to the possible involvement of a submarine.
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But last week, the town council unanimously rejected her request to officially add the tilde.
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The judge rejected his request and ordered his written statement impounded.
repeat
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Repeat the request at a later time or repeat the request with a different set of data.
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National Security Council officials also did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
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A repeats the request for some other time 3.
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Paul Barnes has been repeating the same request for two days.
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She repeated the request about the baptism and reminded me of my promise to baptise her baby.
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During the first two days of her detention she repeated her request for asylum several times.
respond
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The Wigan directors have yet to respond to his request .
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Neither Loral nor Lockheed responded to requests for comment.
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The objective is to allow the system to respond flexibly to requests for, and information given by the human interlocutor.
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Lawyers for Mentavlos and Messer failed to respond to numerous interview requests .
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Local authorities must also respond to requests for information from a variety of interested groups.
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For the first time during the entire voyage, he failed to respond instantly to a request .
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They needed to be able to respond to local requests for specific training from individual boards.
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National Security Council officials also did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
send
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Many brochures have already been sent out in response to requests from advertising.
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Jefferson sent his request by way of diplomats he knew who knew her, and she took months to respond.
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When sending in a request for any subject please suggest who you would like to conduct the session. 8.
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Here we go, I thought, as I sent off the entire request to the company.
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Please send requests to in good time.
write
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So I wrote my request on a sheet of paper.
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An employee wanting a written statement may request one verbally or in writing.
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Delta, for instance, said such passengers can fill out a written request for a refund.
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Given the objectives of the newsletter, written requests for information should avoid bureaucratic forms as much as possible.
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Among its safeguards, the measure calls for a 15-day waiting period between required oral and written requests .
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Ron Otterbacher wrote in his request for an investigation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be besieged with letters/demands/requests etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cummings eventually resigned at the governor's request .
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Davis's request to do research rather than teach this semester is being considered.
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Information about our testing procedure is available on request .
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My request that everyone remain seated was ignored.
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My grandfather's last request was that there should be no flowers at his funeral.
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Ray made a formal written request to meet with Douglas.
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She refused all requests for an interview.
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The board has granted your request for funding.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A Table of Fees giving fuller details can be obtained from the Registry on request .
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Magistrates refused a similar request last December after residents' objections, but Anchor resubmitted the application.
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On the homeless front, 71 percent of the cities surveyed reported increases in requests for emergency shelter.
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San Antonio registered a 36 percent increase while the number of such requests in San Francisco remained even.
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So I wrote my request on a sheet of paper.
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They weren't channelled through to me of course until I made a request for such reports.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
formally
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Not until Monday did Fukui Prefecture formally request the military to intervene, according to the timetable prepared by Mikuni officials.
specifically
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Priority consideration is given to submissions from agents and / or those specifically requested .
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Murphy had specifically requested that Menshikov bring Kostiouk with him.
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Unfortunately, it also was one of the few stories my newspaper specifically requested me to do.
■ NOUN
aid
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Favourite partners of an animal tended in turn to request aid most frequently from that animal.
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On the heels of the revolt, fear mounted in other communities and local officials requested aid from army officers.
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The governor had not requested federal aid and, in their view, no federal statute had been violated.
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If overpowering rebellion occurred, the state government could request federal aid , but the national government could not intervene at will.
assistance
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Derbyshire County Council had requested assistance with their visitors' day in London en route to Matlock.
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The government requested international assistance to support the balance of payments and to stem the decline in international reserves.
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Cushendall police requested further assistance in the Glengariff area at 1345 where more livestock had become cut off by the flood waters.
change
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A Change Request Form should be completed by the person requesting the change.
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The Development Manager will then inform the person who requested the change .
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This form, together with any supporting documentation, will be sent by the person who requested the change to the Change Coordinator.
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The Change Coordinator will inform the person who requested the change that it has been implemented.
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The person who requested the change will be informed of the decision via his manager.
copy
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Copies have also been sent to anyone who requested a copy of the draft primary legislation.
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First thing tomorrow he was going to phone the Chief Constable to request copies of everything the Old Bill found out.
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He added that several other governments have requested copies of the draft bill from the Sri Lankan government.
help
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Eventually the Washington authorities requested the help of the army in clearing the site.
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Lake deputy sheriffs said the woman called 911 late Friday to request help .
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Most commonly they requested more help with social security benefits.
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A lady in Brighton has requested my help in a poisoning case, and I must go there without delay.
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She always did her work and almost never requested or accepted help from Mom or Dad.
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The medical social worker said that she would request a home help for Mr Brown and also Meals-on-Wheels several times a week.
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She requests the children's help and advice.
information
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You will appreciate that this is a tight timescale given the range of information requested .
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Of the 34 universities contacted only 17 were able to supply the appropriate information requested .
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As a minimum, each issue of the publication would require another letter written for the occasion as information is requested again.
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Further information has been requested about the traffic using the Ainslie Park Centre as a guide for this proposal.
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Of the 77 courses contacted in this way, 74 provided the information requested .
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Mr. King I am not sure that I can give the hon. Gentleman the first information that he requested .
letter
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Particular care is required to ensure the letter is requested from and signed by the correct parties.
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Well, I know: Months ago, I sent a letter to Stallone requesting an interview for this book.
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Christabel My dear, Here are your letters , as you request .
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If any doubt exists as to whether a group engagement letter covers the particular assignment in question an additional letter should be requested .
meeting
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Personal introductions are commonly executed by a third party rather than through say the medium of a telephone call requesting a meeting .
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The night before Goering was due to be executed, he requested a private meeting with me.
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She is to request a meeting with the education minister, Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, to discuss the issue.
permission
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In most cases, you will be required to request permission from your line manager before engaging in any political activity.
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He might have been requesting permission to explode the station.
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Earlier it had said that Mr Sharif had requested permission to travel abroad for medical treatment.
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Theoretically, a manager can request permission from the finance office or the legislature to move funds across the fences.
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In September, Joseph requested permission to travel to Washington to correct the mistakes made in the recent settlement.
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A prisoner approached the second white line, requested permission to cross.
report
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In the family proceedings court a single justice or a clerk may request a report under s7.
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Cross-reference Reports Lexicographers will use a control document to request cross-reference reports.
state
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Schafer could issue a state disaster declaration and request a Presidential Disaster Declaration as soon as Friday.
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Schafer may make the state declaration and request a presidential declaration as soon as today.
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If overpowering rebellion occurred, the state government could request federal aid, but the national government could not intervene at will.
transfer
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This does not sound like a player who has requested a transfer .
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Throughout the fall of 1989, a steadily increasing number of employees requested transfers out of Black &038; White.
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A client may request a transfer , usually to a more senior lawyer.
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But remember a player does not get as much out of it when he requests a transfer .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anna was requested to make the necessary arrangements for the convention.
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Officials in Seoul are requesting the drug dealer's extradition from Bahrain.
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The pilot requested permission to land the plane at O'Hare airport.
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We request that all cell phones and pagers be turned off for the duration of the performance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A group of them discussed with a professor their plans to request that the Peace Corps leave Huamanga.
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A nurse intercepted him before he left and queried whether William had requested it.
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Challenger shrugged, but tossed the football as requested.
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Conversely the tenant may contract to remove fixtures either unconditionally, or conditionally upon being requested to do so by the landlord.
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In 1995, no waivers were granted in the nine serious crime cases in which they were requested.
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The memo also requested money for three tax-exempt organizations.
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The tobacco industry requested that Stivoro be stopped from propagating its position on passive smoking.