Sentence examples for counterparts asking from inspiring English sources

Journalists from all over the world were approaching their British counterparts, asking what on earth was going on.

An older man with a bullhorn appealed to his more Internet-aware counterparts, asking them to spread the word to railway workers and dockworkers.

The paper printed extracts of letters from Libya's justice and finance ministers to their South African counterparts asking for help finding assets linked to Gaddafi, which might "have been illegally possessed, obtained, looted, deposited or hidden in South Africa".

"An Oscar is worth millions in publicity, and it's a kind of publicity you can't get any other way," says one specialist awards PR tactician who, like his counterparts, asked not to be named.

Earlier this month, the US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, launched a scathing attack on her Russian counterpart asking him if he was "incapable of feeling shame".

Mutual pleasantries aside, the Obama-Netanyahu dialogue sounds like a broken old record playing the same tune for four years, with the Israeli leader pushing for a tougher American stance vis-a-vis Iran, and his American counterpart asking for more time to solve the nuclear issue diplomatically.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino called his Indonesian counterpart asking him to spare Veloso, saying she could testify in the accused's trial.

On Monday, North Korea's Red Cross sent a letter to its South Korean counterpart asking for the women to be sent back, saying they had been kidnapped by the South, according to KCNA.

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Was Britain being honest, or did the British wink to their American counterparts, essentially asking them to be promise-breakers?

The German defense minister, Franz Josef Jung, rejected a sharply worded letter last week from his United States counterpart, Robert M. Gates, asking that Germany send soldiers and helicopters to southern Afghanistan, where the heaviest fighting has taken place.