Sentence examples for far from asking from inspiring English sources

Far from asking the reporters to be quiet, or staying quiet themselves, officials immediately issued their own outraged statement.

In addition, the people who run the golf club, far from asking anyone to remove livestock, have said repeatedly that they wish the crofters would graze more animals on the course.

But far from asking the corporation to act unlawfully, we have simply put forward a most logical proposition given the distinct lack of bi-partisanship for a very misguided policy.

In addition, the people who run the golf club, far from asking anyone to remove livestock_,_ have said repeatedly that they wish the crofters would graze more animals on the course.

Webster's wording, even, is more visual than that: "A maned striped mammal (Proteles cristata) of southern and eastern Africa that resembles the related hyena and feeds chiefly on carrion and insects". Clearly, the OED assumes a client who's far from asking what an aardwolf looks like - no, one athirst for such taxonomic insight as it's austerely willing to provide.

And, far from asking what Robert Dear's religion was when he opened fire at Planned Parenthood, the New York Times amazingly described him as "gentle loner".

The difference is that asking somebody you are intimate with and have known for a long time is far different from asking a perfect stranger.

The sale closed last March for $14.8 million (far from the asking price of $24 million for the completed apartment, but a rare luxury sale at the time).

Far from being asked to kill the story, he was asked to go back to it a second time.

As far as I can decide, from asking questions here and there, it costs the proprietor of the average drinking place $150 a week for protection from arrest.

Mensch then issued a statement to the media confessing to the accusations and concluding: "I have not the slightest intention of being deterred from asking how far the culture of hacking and blagging extended in Fleet Street".