The phrase "asking for a declaration" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts when someone is requesting an official statement or judgment.
Example: "The plaintiff is asking for a declaration regarding the validity of the contract in question."
Alternatives: "requesting a statement" or "seeking a ruling".
According to the lawsuit, which is asking for a declaration from the court to make Countrywide live up to its contracts, some 374 mortgage pools issued by Countrywide contain language pledging to buy back modified loans from investors.
The North Koreans have been asking for a declaration formally ending the 1950-53 Korean War, an appeal which has won support from the South Korean government and appears to be something to which Trump is prepared to agree.
The complaint is brought derivatively by two minority stockholders of the American Express Company, asking for a declaration that a certain dividend in kind is a waste of corporate assets, directing the defendants not to proceed with the distribution, or, in the alternative, for monetary damages.
"That's not — I don't — you know, I just don't consider that going to war in the classic sense of coming to Congress and asking for a declaration of war and training troops and sending people abroad and putting young Americans in harm's way".
Mr Kerry urged Congress to stand by Mr Obama, saying the president was not asking for a declaration of war, simply for the power to show that the US "means what we say".
It is also asking for a declaration to have the rights of the movie revert to Icon.
The applicant for an election to be avoided may ask for a declaration that the election is void, that a particular candidate was wrongfully declared to have been elected, and/or that another candidate was duly elected.
The country's census, which as elsewhere in Central Europe asks for a declaration of religious preference, suggests that secularism has made deep inroads.
It also asks for a declaration of a national emergency, which would expedite various practical measures and show that the Administration has a coherent plan.
In a civil rights lawsuit argued in mid-August in New Jersey state court, plaintiffs asked for a declaration ending the state's exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage.
