The phrase "a request to specify" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when asking someone to provide more detailed information or clarification on a particular topic.
Example: "I have submitted a request to specify the details of the project timeline."
Alternatives: "a request for clarification" or "a request for details".
"They have not been participants, they've been obstructionists," she says of the Republicans, then quotes a letter from the minority leader, Peter Schmitt, in response to her request to specify cuts.
Mr. Netanyahu's publicly expressed concern about Iran's nuclear work has caused new frictions with the Obama administration, which has refused his request to specify "red lines" of Iranian behavior that would justify a military attack on Iran.
One way to accomplish this is to introduce SLAs for the workload provided by cloud users to allow user requests to specify an earliest start time and deadline for the requests.
In a two-paragraph statement, LAORA said it "reported the positive test results within 3 hours". The group did not respond to requests to specify more clearly when the notification took place.
Respondents who opted for the non-choice option for more than half of the sets were requested to specify their reasons.
Importers are requested to specify precisely the product profile, its quality standards and packaging/labelling requirements against which each delivery will be inspected.
Where the ECB considers that a measure relating to the tasks referred to in paragraph 1 should be adopted by the competent authority of a concerned Member State in relation to a credit institution, financial holding company or mixed-financial holding company, it shall make a request to that authority, specifying a relevant timeframe.
When an analysis is required, the Scratchpad sends a request to the BioVeL portal specifying the analysis to be performed, a link to the audio file to be analysed and any other required parameters (e.g. the start and end points of the analysis if the analysis is not of the entire file).
