Sentence examples for entertain the request from inspiring English sources

The directors were not willing to entertain the request unless the takeover bid was raised to at least $14 a share, one of these people said.

Peg Breen, president of the New York Landmarks Conservancy, a preservationist group, said that the city has so far declined to entertain the request, though last year it designated two other Harlem Catholic churches as landmarks: All Saints, on East 129th Street, and St. Aloysius, on West 132nd Street.

However, APs do not entertain the new requests immediately.

Entertaining the peculiar requests of rich clientele and government departments meant Stratfor needed a web of informants in American agencies and international regimes; they even count Canadian officials among their sources.

As for Mr. Perez-Olivo's interest in taking a lie-detector test, Ms. DiFiore said in a news conference that her office "would not entertain that request," adding, "we all know that polygraph tests are not admissible because it's not reliable".

It seems possible to step back one level and take a cut in salary, but would HR entertain that request?

Musicians and singers entertain the diners while they eat, singing both traditional and modern Somali songs on request.

Two ladies discussing how to entertain the guests at a party hit on the idea of hiring a Negro to play request songs on a banjo.

Their clowns entertain the kids".

Let them entertain the masses.

Why not entertain the neighbors by herself?