Sentence examples for a written ultimatum from inspiring English sources

Investors speaking for 36percentnt of Carlton's shares presented a written ultimatum to Sir Brian Pitman and Sir George Russell, the senior non-executive directors of the two companies at a summit in London at the end of last week.

Kempe argues that, in spite of a very tough State of the Union address, Khrushchev smelled weakness and, at their summit in Vienna, felt free to present Kennedy with a written ultimatum about Berlin.

Napier said Johnston read out the ultimatum from a written document in what she thought was to be a routine one-to-one meeting at her office on 23 May.

Suleiman eventually wrote an ultimatum to Charles, asking for the immediate release of Francis and demanding a yearly tax from the Holy Roman Empire; when this was not forthcoming, the Ottomans launched an invasion of Hungary in the summer of 1526, aiming to reach Vienna.

After two years of delaying tactics, the court's patience snapped last January when it issued Mr. Gilani an ultimatum: write to the Swiss authorities or face contempt charges.

Gramont wrote a sharply formulated ultimatum to Wilhelm, as head of the Hohenzollern family, stating that if any Hohenzollern prince should accept the crown of Spain, the French government would respond although he left ambiguous the nature of such response.

The consensus was, after the dust settled, that the Clintons presented a fait accompli to Congress in the form of a giant bill they had written in secret meetings, with the ultimatum: "pass this, or else".

The revolutionaries in Cairo, they wrote, presented "a straight-forward ultimatum": they wouldn't leave the square until President Hosni Mubarak left office.

Jean Makoun and Benoit Angbwa have written to the country's football federation Fecafoot with the ultimatum.

But the talks must be a discussion, not an ultimatum.

It wasn't a discussion but an ultimatum.