"ask indulgence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are asking someone to forgive or understand you, or to be patient with you. For example, "I must ask for your indulgence while I take a moment to collect my thoughts."
I am exaggerating: heaven help those who write without being read; for that reason there are too many people writing today and one cannot ask for indulgence for someone who has little to say, and one cannot allow trade-union or corporate sympathies.
That's a thundering herd of books, and so I must ask the indulgence of readers of The Book Review if I now excuse myself from talking further to them and retire indefinitely to the shelves where the herd is penned--there to talk to myself about what Los Angeles may soon be reading.
Nevertheless, she asked for "indulgence" (lenience or pardon) for the three women.
Although France is headed for a deficit of 3.7 to 3.9percentt, Hollande has asked for indulgence from the European Commission in Brussels and has repeated that his goal is still to meet the treaty requirement.
To fend it off, he asked for indulgence to double his defence budget, which is limited by an agreement with the countries that give Uganda aid.The tiff is all the more baffling because Mr Museveni and Mr Kagame were once comrades-in-arms.
After asking for "indulgence" and "understanding," the secretary said during his remarks that the "current course [the technology industry is on], toward deeper and deeper encryption in response to the demands of the marketplace, is one that presents real challenges for those in law enforcement and national security".
I ask for your indulgence as I return once again to the issue of human trafficking a topic which, unfortunately, seems to intersect with private military and security contracting more than now and then.
Dive head first into indulgence and ask your local chippy to deep-fry your black pudding.
It also documents and elevates a number of different kinship systems operating in the world of queer performance, like the Chicago drag scene or The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, asking: what is the function of sisterhood in the world of drag and queer space?
