Sentence examples for asked for serious from inspiring English sources

Sen. Hatch asked for serious policy proposals--not slogans like "upside down tax incentives," "bang for the buck," or the system is rigged". Yet Sen. Wyden couldn't resists; he asked witnesses in closing, "Where would you make a change to get a bigger bang for the taxpayer buck?" Here are some of their best ideas.

On Medicaid, too, Republicans asked for serious structural reforms, and Democrats again asked for revenues before cutting back on benefits.

He ends by asking for "serious constructive criticisms" of his "good, standard, traditional British fare".

Why not just ask for serious spinal injury and months, if not years, of excruciating and expensive rehab.

The time limit gave the whimsical scheme structure, and it also put participants at ease; I wasn't asking for serious art.

Its objective is well known: in exchange for giving up flexing its "nuclear muscle", Pyongyang is asking for serious economic aid.

With the Constitution under threat and a country approaching civil war, Lincoln began by asking for serious reflection: "Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it?

Knock the legs out of that market, and you're asking for serious trouble.

If universities don't start addressing the problems of minority recruitment and retention that are so crucial right now, they're asking for serious trouble in the very near future.

If you attack someone who insulted you, or otherwise intentionally start a fight, you're asking for serious (and potentially legal) trouble.

Triggering the ECBM and allowing one Member State to apply their legal provisions in another Member State asks for serious scrutiny by all parties involved so the deadlines proposed by the Commission might have been too tight, so certain deadlines have been amended.