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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a blanket request" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a general or all-encompassing request that covers multiple items or situations without specifying details.
Example: "The manager submitted a blanket request for additional resources to support all ongoing projects."
Alternatives: "a general request" or "an all-encompassing request".
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The chairwoman of the commission, Dr. Macfarlane, agreed during her confirmation hearing to a blanket request to provide documents.
Applications to organisations or companies for access to their information have to be made – and data requested must be specific, rather than a blanket request for everyone with BT emails for example.
Reardon, a successful personal-injury lawyer, had made a blanket request for the names of all the priests the institute had ever treated for sexual misconduct, along with any "contracts, agreements, memorandums of understanding, policies, procedures, correspondence, memos, notes or other documents" regarding them.
In its statement announcing the decision, the commission said it would honor requests for the confidential treatment of comment letters and replies only if there were a reasonable basis for them and would view a blanket request for confidentiality with skepticism.
We have never received a blanket request or court order from any government agency asking for information or metadata in bulk, like the one Verizon reportedly received.
Mr Zuckerberg said: "We have never received a blanket request or court order from any government agency asking for information or metadata in bulk, like the one Verizon reportedly received.
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Were the blanket request to have been approved by the cabinet, countless Lebanese would have had to run for cyber cover.
"We were pleased the court did not accept the blanket request to seal so many documents," attorney Jean-Paul Jassy, who represented The Times and the Hollywood Reporter, said after the hearing.
Accordingly, "blanket" requests for confidentiality of a large set of documents are unacceptable.
While some of the replies may be kept confidential, the commission warned that "blanket" requests for confidentiality of a large set of documents are unacceptable.
It is said that Egyptian investigators have sent out "blanket requests" for stolen assets which have overwhelmed banks.
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