Karl, one of only nine NBA coaches with more than 1,000 career victories, described an organization-wide sense of relief when the Nuggets finally accommodated Anthony's persistent request for a trade out of Denver in 2011, calling it "a sweet release for the coach and the team, like popping a blister".
Reporters on the daily newspaper fear the arrival of the Sunday Times editor, possibly with other executives in tow, will lead to the arrival of a Daily Mail-style agenda and persistent request for "celebrity angles" on stories.
Lord Joffe's bill would "enable an adult who has capacity and who is suffering unbearably as a result of a terminal illness to receive medical assistance to die at his own considered and persistent request" [ 5].
As his young son gazed at a cage full of turquoise, yellow and azure-colored birds, Jawad, 40, a car maintenance worker, said he felt safer than before, which was why he had given in to his son's persistent request to get out of the house.
A gift prompted by persistent requests for it is not as exciting or fulfilling as a gift that is a total surprise.
His attending physician, the records stated, considered Oswald of "sound mind but very strong-willed, and if his request for permission to remain in the USSR were turned down again, he might repeat his suicide attempt". The documents indicate the Soviets denied him citizenship but let him stay a year as a foreign national because of his persistent requests.
We've had such a great response and such persistent requests for additional tickets to the Northern Meetups that we've decided to release some more.
Eminem is known for shying away from television and radio interviews, but after Reed's persistent requests, he granted her a 15-minute phone interview.
During the 1960s there was speculation that Prime Minister Harold Wilson's continual refusals to send British troops to Vietnam, even as a token force, and despite President Lyndon B. Johnson's persistent requests, were in part due to the American opposition to the Suez war years earlier.
Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage, touring Asia to rally support for American policy in Iraq, has gone out of his way to assure Japanese officials that their persistent requests for leniency in the case of a former American serviceman are being heard in Washington.
The bill is restricted to patients who are terminally ill, with six months or less to live, in unbearable pain, mentally competent and have made persistent requests to die, and includes 20 safeguards including an assessment by two independent doctors and consultation with a palliative care expert to explore alternatives.
