Sentence examples for asking the authorities from inspiring English sources

Five residents are reported to have been kidnapped, with tribal elders asking the authorities to hand them back.

The judge responded to the application by asking the authorities at the Tihar Jail, where the defendants are being held, for their input on the request.

Police believe an Israeli ambassador tipped off Lieberman in 2008 that police were asking the authorities in Belarus to help in a money laundering investigation against him.

"The villagers in the area have been asking the authorities to grant them arms for self-defence since 1997, but they got no answer," a doctor said.

Signs of increased tension between the coalition partners emerged as the acting Metropolitan police commissioner, Tim Godwin, told the home affairs select committee on Tuesday that he had considered asking the authorities to switch off social media networks.

If I were on the board of CVS I would be asking the authorities in Baltimore some pretty searching questions.

On Tuesday, change.org said more than 2,700 Brooklynites had signed a petition asking the authority to install shuttle bus service along the affected routes.

On Tuesday, the local authority's education committee voted nine to eight to reject a motion asking the authority to throw out the proposals.

"In fact, the company itself recognises some of these issues and approached the council months ago, asking the authority to take over the company.

Almost 6,000 have signed a Stop the Rail Freight Exchange (STRiFE) group petition, asking the authority to keep Radlett Airfield in Park Street from developers HelioSlough.

On Tuesday, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar's education committee voted nine to eight to reject a motion asking the authority to throw out the proposals.