Sentence examples for asked for a higher from inspiring English sources

I asked my boss why he picked me for the job and he said it was because I asked for a higher salary than anyone else.

He gave her Percocet for breakthrough pain, and, when she asked for a higher dose, he refused and then laughed, seemingly embarrassed by the interaction.

The new centre-right government of Mariano Rajoy has asked for a higher budget deficit target than the 4.4% imposed by Brussels because of recession, but Rehn refused to signal agreement.

Unsurprisingly, investors asked for a higher interest rate on their loan -- exacerbating Portugal's problem.

Berry asked for a higher fee for Revlon advertisements after winning the Academy Award.

"He asked for a high five," Allison says.

Of course, I am sure Motorola Mobility asked for a high fee and was happy to take it.

Shareholders approved a plan for a £16m capital raising, but only after the company successfully asked for a high court ruling requiring chief executive John Shannon - who owns nearly 30% - to vote in favour of the move.

In a separate directive, Mr. Obama asked for a high-level review of the case of Ali al-Marri — Mr. Obama called him "clearly a dangerous individual" — who is being held without charges as an "enemy combatant" in a military jail in South Carolina.

We repeated the example given in Fig. 4A with a cut-off of 10-20, i.e., we not only required the sequences in a QuartOP to be each others top hit, but in addition we asked for a high similarity between the two sequences.

That showed investors are asking for a higher return to take on a greater perceived risk.