Sentence examples for asking for membership from inspiring English sources

She wrote to the privy council secretary asking for membership to be widened, arguing that the decision on the charter would be taken by the government rather than the privy council.

Mr Abbas presented a formal request to the UN asking for membership of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, based on the 1967 borders.

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In 2009, he asked for membership in Al Qaeda, but Osama bin Laden declined; in 2012, after bin Laden's death, he was finally allowed in.

Asked about the nationalisation of the country's British-owned tea and rubber estates, she said: "The Indian question (the problem of citizenship of settlers of Indian origin) must be settled first". She also said that several members of other parties returned in the election had asked for membership of the Freedom Party.

Baglin also asked for membership support of proposed changes to the festival's façade.

One of the three people responsible for the Green platform, he boasted that a million people had asked for membership in the party.

Kreusler filed a petition on Thompson's behalf earlier in the week asking for L.P.G.A. membership beginning in 2012.

He did it with a flourish, holding up the formal letter of application he had submitted that hour to the UN secretary general, asking for full membership of the United Nations – a gesture that brought sustained applause from some delegates, impassive silence from others, including the United States and, inevitably, Israel.

Will the Palestinians risk a US veto by going to the security council and asking for full membership or will they skip the security council and go directly to the general assembly and request recognition as a state with observer (rather than full) membership.