Sentence examples for constitutes a request from inspiring English sources

At trial, Handelsman testified that he called a representative at Goldman to ask whether the transaction was still fair, but the Court of Chancery found that Handelsman's phone call hardly constitutes a request for an updated fairness analysis.

Other non-literal aspects of meaning include the potential for carrying out various "speech acts" (see speech act theory); e.g., uttered in the appropriate circumstances, the sentence "I christen thee the Joseph Stalin," constitutes the act of naming a ship, and the sentence "I am cold" constitutes a request to close the window.

Mr. Dean's letter to consortium members would constitute a request to do so.

The furnishing of such Form W-4 shall constitute a request for withholding.

On balance, the commission concluded that this did not constitute a request for the newspaper not to make further approaches.

Petitions signed by 50 low-income workers constitute a request that an increase in the minimum wage increase should be considered by the commissioner.

THURSDAY M: Me saying, "Wow, those dogs doing aerial tricks sure look like they're having a fun time" does NOT constitute a request to spend three thousand dollars of our shared funds on a deluxe indoor trampoline.

Upon receipt of the form, the attorney assumes it to constitute a request that he file on behalf of the injured member a claim with the Industrial Commission, though no such explicit request is contained in the form.

Uttering the sentence It's cold in here, for example, may constitute a request or a command for more heat (though the sentence does not have the conventional form of either illocution), and it may cause the hearer to turn the heat up.

"This letter constitutes a formal request that you return the device to Apple," the letter said.

When the Commission reasonably believes that a requester, or a group of requesters acting in concert, is attempting to break a request down into a series of requests for the purpose of evading assessment of fees, or otherwise reasonably believes that two or more requests constitute a single request, the Commission may aggregate any such requests accordingly.