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"ask for the documents" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to request or obtain a set of papers or files that contain important information or evidence. You can use this phrase whenever you need to request specific documents from someone or an organization. This could be for a variety of reasons, such as for a legal case, for a job application, or for a research project. Example: "I need to ask for the documents from the HR department in order to complete my application for the job."
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Instead, he rejected Congress's right to ask for the documents.
The governor's staff pretty much issued a gold-plated invitation to the Times Union reporter to ask for the documents.
As a result, they have increasingly detained a category of people known as "collaterals". Under the Obama administration, ICE agents seeking to arrest a suspect would not typically ask for the documents of relatives and other people living with the suspect.
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Simply asking for the documents should have been enough.
He also asked for the documents in seven days, setting a 10 April deadline.
"We asked for the documents repeatedly and we were turned down, despite an agreement to obtain them, on numerous occasions.
His announcement came one day before a judge was scheduled to hear a motion from abuse victims asking for the documents to be released.
RBS has asked for the documents to be sealed by the Singapore high court while investigations by the FSA and US regulators such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice are completed.
Mr. Toledo said he asked for the documents on Mr. Montesinos and his links to American intelligence soon after he took office.
Andersen said that it had asked for the documents but accepted Enron's statement that it did not have access to them.
Murdoch says that he approved the deal because Myler and Crone advised him that the company would lose the case in court, but that they never showed him — and he never asked for — the documents explaining why.
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