Word: requesting
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...mail effort came in response to a request from Boston City Councilor Michael S. Ross, whose district—which includes Fenway Park—experienced rampant lawlessness after the Red Sox defeated the Oakland Athletic’s in the decisive Game 5 of the division series last Monday...
...organization, in response to a request from Ross, has aired a public service announcement in which starting pitcher Tim Wakefield asks fans to keep celebrations under control...
Lifland denied an earlier request, filed at the same time as the initial brief, for a temporary restraining order on military recruiting until Friday’s injunction hearing, according to The New York Times...
...Bush administration recently submitted to Congress a request for $87 billion to cover a complex mixture of security and reconstruction costs over the next fiscal year. This was accompanied by tough and stirring words stressing the U.S. plans to follow through on security, reconstruction and nation-building challenges related to its war on terrorism. Such rhetoric was necessary not only to provide credibility to the request, but also to shore up the administration’s declining fortunes both in Iraq and the U.S., and to reassert its aggressive, hegemonic national security strategy abroad...
Next, there is to be a dearth of resources to devote to the cause: efforts bilaterally and at the U.N. to persuade other nations to contribute cash and troops have fallen short; Congressional approval for the new aid request on top of money already spent, are under increasingly alarmed scrutiny especially in the face of predictions of greater expenditures to come; and U.S. troops are stretched so thin that rotations are delayed, more Reserves and National Guard must be called up and the Marines have been asked to forego their classic expeditionary mission in favor of stabilization tasks...