Mahmoud Abbas submitted a formal request for membership to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Ki-Moon
The African Union has submitted a formal request to the United Nations Security Council, which can defer the proceedings for a year.
This past December, AVI BioPharma submitted a formal request to the F.D.A. for approval to begin clinical trials of the antiviral.
The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association has submitted a formal request that Lindsey Vonn be allowed to take part in a World Cup men's downhill in Canada.
Michigan's state environmental regulatory agency has submitted a formal request to Detroit Bulk Storage, the company holding the material for Koch Carbon, to change its storage methods.
When the official opposition Democratic Alliance party submitted a formal request for a police investigation of him in August 2007, it called him a "backyard chemist" manufacturing a "fake Aids cure".
FEMA officials contacted the White House about the need for a federal emergency declaration even before Alabama had submitted a formal request that evening, said Art Faulkner, the state's emergency management director.
This past weekend, as the new season opened in Sölden, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association submitted a formal request to the International Ski Federation asking to further discuss the matter at a council meeting set for Saturday in Switzerland.
On Dec. 31, the largely impotent transitional government of Somalia submitted a formal request to the American ambassador in Kenya asking for the United States to take action against the militants.
After a referendum in which a clear majority of voters cast their votes in favor of leaving the European Union, Greenland in 1985 submitted a formal request for withdrawal from the EEC.
The elder Mr. Karroubi and another government critic, Mir Hussein Moussavi, had submitted a formal request to the government to hold the rally on Feb. 14. Opposition Web sites have also reported the arrest of a number of people associated with the two opposition leaders.
