Sentence examples similar to champion the request from inspiring English sources
Fide accepted almost all, but the sticking point was the champion's request for an unlimited series of games, with 10 games required for victory and Fischer retaining his title at 9-9.
The board said lawyers for the former heavyweight champion had requested the delay but offered no further explanation.
Twelve-time Grand Slam champion Billie Jean King has called the request from the male interviewer "truly sexist".
—worried aloud that the eventual champion would request that fried chicken and collard greens be served at a tournament dinner the next year.
The reigning badminton champion had requested that the FEI tribunal rule separately on automatic disqualification from Burghley prior to the full hearing.
Customers - and privacy rights champions - have expressed concern about the sheer breadth of the request.
Whitmarsh calls Button an "extraordinary" guy and a great team player and says he would never have gone to the 2009 world champion with the same request.
The request for what surprises they've encountered since the start of the war exposed some of the callous indifference to the cause they once championed so tirelessly.
The request was declined.
