The phrase "a request to stop" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to formally ask someone to cease an action or behavior.
Example: "The letter included a request to stop all further communications regarding the matter."
Alternatives: "a plea to cease" or "a demand to halt".
But Britain's legal-deposit laws mean that the British Library doesn't have to honor a request to stop collecting.
It cites two joint parliamentary resolutions declaring drone strikes a counterproductive violation of sovereignty and a request to stop such strikes.
But at the end of the day yesterday, Mr. Goodman's lawyer withdrew a request to stop the vote counting after the appeals court made it clear that it was unlikely to be granted.
As the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported, before the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party bowed to a request to stop showing an ad that makes fun of émigrés from the former Soviet Union who are not considered Jews according to Halakha, or religious law, a party leader, Ariel Atias, said: "The ad isn't supposed to hurt anyone.
After the firm's head Glen Runciter receives a request to stop psi activity on Luna, another planet, he quickly organises a group of the best anti-psi agents, including the new and mysterious Pat Conley, who has the rare ability to change events in the past.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 31 (UPI)—The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit turned down today a request to stop the extradition of Charles D. (Tex Watsonn of the hippie "family" of Charles M. Manson, accused of killing Sharon Tate, the actress, and six others.
Israel and Hamas both agreed to a UN request to stop fighting from 8am until 8pm on Saturday.
In 2001 the emir, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, refused a US request to stop al-Jazeera giving so much airtime to Osama bin Laden and other anti-American figures, saying: "Parliamentary life requires you to have a free and credible media, and that is what we are trying to do.
Don't expect a polite request to stop bullies in their tracks.
On one occasion, at the request of financial advisor GT, Knieriem was asked to prepare an instruction form documenting a customer's verbal request to stop payment on a check from his account.
Gov. Rick Perry turned down an eleventh-hour request to stop the execution.
