Sentence examples for an outrageous request from inspiring English sources

It is an outrageous request, a historic amount of debt for a company that has a historic amount of cash on hand.

Rice recalls how Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told her that the Kremlin would only withdraw its tanks from Georgia if Saakashvili resigned – an outrageous request.

They also wanted unfettered emissions trading (buying the right to emit greenhouse gases from places that would find applying controls cheaper than did the purchaser).That was hardly an outrageous request, for it would have made tackling climate change as flexible and inexpensive as possible.

If you think about it, it's not an outrageous request.

Don't be scared to make an outrageous request.

It's not an outrageous request to ask your friends to stay late, or stay the night to help you clean up, after all, it's highly likely they helped make the mess, so they should help clean it up.

Kenneth Minor said he shooed the man away, but he returned with a more outrageous request: So began the bizarre tale that Mr. Minor told the police two summers ago after the man, Jeffrey Locker, was found bloodied, bound and dead in his car, while Mr. Minor was caught on tape using Mr. Locker's A.T.M. card.

As he has now given up his Albany flat, he bases himself at the Savoy whenever he's in London, so asking the chef to prepare some Stamp Collection spaghetti with vegetables for his first course and my main course, doesn't appear like a totally outrageous request.

But the Saudis added an outrageous second request: that the Pakistanis send only Sunni Muslim soldiers.

Acting on behalf of Kimberly Craven, a Sisseton-Wahpeton Ovate tribe member, Frank argued that the case was about pure greed, stating that it included "an outrageous fee request that has resulted in bipartisan criticism" and that the Class Counsel were "more interested in maximizing their personal recovery than the interests of the class".

Rather than starting with the most outrageous request you can think up, make a practice of asking for small things that you might not get.