Sentence examples for ask for the largest from inspiring English sources

(In Mr. Boehner's alternative reality, by the way, it just popped into Mr. Obama's head to ask for "the largest debt increase in American history, on the heels of the largest spending binge in American history". The president was required to ask for an increase by law, and the spending was mostly incurred by his Republican predecessor).

The cameras also showed a beaming Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as Clinton announced his plan to ask for the largest funding increase in the history of the biomedical research agency.

"Ask for the large," he continued.

Edouard Machery, a philosopher of science at the University of Pittsburgh by way of the Sorbonne, told subjects about a man named Joe who visits the local smoothie shop and asks for the largest drink available.

The Hadamard maximal determinant problem asks for the largest n×n determinant with entries ±1.

Especially if I had asked for the large, lower Fifth Avenue, classic-six, prewar, doorman, original-molding, million-dollar apartment.

He had asked for the larger tax in order to fund his other priorities.

Late last year Rusal asked for the single largest loan in Moscow's bailout program $4.5 billion.

"This is not about our members demanding huge banker-sized bonuses or asking for the similarly large bonuses and pay increases given to many senior managers in the NHS.

The relationship is finely balanced: the Mexican smugglers know that, if they ask for too large a share, the Colombians can always return to shipping their cocaine by a different route.Over the years, these distribution networks have become more efficient.

"You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't," says one NSF official, defending Suresh's decision to ask for large increases for the OneNSF initiatives.