Sentence examples for ask to retain from inspiring English sources

It was always a big ask to retain the title, but few predicted Spain would fall at the group stage.

Mr Poots added that it was "an impossible ask" to retain full children's heart surgery in Northern Ireland because the number of procedures carried out annually was hundreds short of what is required for a sustainable service.

It would be a very tough ask to retain so many jobs at Faslane and Coulport (the nearby base where the missiles are stored) if there were no nuclear submarines.

With full respect, the authors ask to retain the order, in which the algorithms are introduced.

Recipient usually asked to retain flowers, and many of them became customers.

You might think that would supplant the need for a financial adviser in the case, but Hostess is asking to retain one of those, too.

But he left no doubt that the team was not going to "roll the dice," as Howard had asked, to retain their star center had he not contractually committed to at least another season.

In the present experiments, participants were asked to retain lists of objects in memory.

Patients are asked to retain from ingesting fluids and eating solid food up to 1 and 4 h before the examination, respectively.

Under the draft bill, the Royal Mail and other postal services could be asked to retain "anything written on the outside" of items for up to 12 months so they can be accessed by the police, security services and HM Revenue and Customs.

In the Working Memory (WM) task, participants were presented with a sequence of digits and asked to retain the identity of the most recent number in memory.