Sentence examples for essentially asking for from inspiring English sources

Any journalist who cheerleads uncritically for Twitter is essentially asking for his own destruction.

If Grand Avenue was going to be the Champs-Élysées, Broad was essentially asking for the land under the Arc de Triomphe.

Commissioner Bud Selig watched Rose's first appearance on a big-league field in three years, before tens of thousands of people -- essentially asking for a pardon.

In the analysis, their performance was being measured relative to their benchmarks, essentially asking, for every different class of asset, whether the funds performed better or worse than a corresponding index fund would have.

This stuff isn't cheap and Olson is essentially asking for you to be a patron of the arts.

Keep in mind that the Williams' case was essentially asking for textbooks and teachers with credentials.

It essentially asks for the Danes to present an assessment of the increased risk that justifies their measures.

"He essentially asked for her to go nuclear by behaving that way," one top state Republican official said.

A representative from the AFL-CIO puts forth a proposal that essentially asks for formal updates on Berkshire's succession plan.

In a report last week, the S.E.C. essentially asked for more power over this market, and called for greater disclosure by issuers — that is, the states, cities, towns and authorities that sell new munis.

These laws were urged by feminist reformers in the 1970's because until that time the central inquiry in rape cases was whether the accuser was a tramp who, essentially, "asked for it".