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Discover LudwigThe phrase "asked for the measures" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone requesting specific actions, steps, or standards to be taken or followed.
Example: "During the meeting, she asked for the measures that would be implemented to improve safety in the workplace."
Alternatives: "requested the measures" or "sought the measures".
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Thompson said it was right for government to consider the issue but said police had not asked for the measures.
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Bell had asked for the measure to be included in an effort to placate its current debt holders.
"We have reconsidered our the decision, which is why we will ask for the measure to be cancelled," a spokesman said.
When anyone asked for the highest measure, Stalin would inevitably approve.
Mr. Dervis said the resident United Nations security officer had asked for the protective measure after two other car bombings in Algiers in April and had followed it up with a number of requests, both oral and written.
Republicans in the Senate backed it because they've asked for all the measures in the deal, including language about the controversial Keystone XL pipeline that they insisted on.
Newsom asked for the report to target prevention measures that would benefit communities of lower socioeconomic status with fire education barriers, a factor that helped make the Camp wildfire in Paradise, Calif., especially devastating.
The survey was cross-sectional and asked for the presence of various preventive measures at the time of survey.
This interview included a standard 12-month GF measure (Greenfield 2000), as well as a newly developed, 28-day GF measure that asked for the maximum number of drinks a participant had consumed in the prior 28 days and the number of days that he or she drank at that and successively lower levels.
I asked for similar measures to the LC [Swansea leisure centre across the road which still had access points while work was going on] but didn't get them," he explained.
Soviet, Chinese, and other Warsaw Pact governments urged Kádár to proceed with interrogation and trial of former Nagy government ministers, and asked for punitive measures against the"counter-revolutionists".
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