Sentence examples for general to ask from inspiring English sources

We need to inspire the next generation to become engaged in space and in science in general, to ask questions: What will we find when we go to space?

He was the only state attorney general to ask the Supreme Court to strike down the Violence Against Women Act.

That is why I implore the new UN secretary general to ask the current humanitarian leadership to let go and to pass the baton onto the next generation.

On July 16, Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, telephoned Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, to ask for an international effort to help the Palestinian people.

He said he authorized the prosecutor general to ask countries for any proof that he or his wife, Suzanne, or sons Gamal and Alaa, both wealthy businessmen, owned any real estate or property, commercial or private, beyond Egypt's borders.

In the next few weeks, we will be putting our application forward to the attorney general to ask him to overturn our original verdict and look into new evidence and hopefully give us a new inquest".

Both contacted Mark Thompson, the BBC's director-general, to ask him to rethink the scheduling.

Stella Creasy, a Labour home affairs spokeswoman, has written to Trevor Pearce, Soca's director-general, to ask why a list of 101 of the investigators' clients it has handed to the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee must remain classified.

When the Civil Rights Act was being debated in 1963, she wrote to Robert Kennedy, the attorney-general, to ask whether the prospective law would make it easier for her to go home.

Now, Mr Chrétien seems to have accepted that there is no point in staying around much longer.He is said to have paid a quiet visit to the governor-general, to ask her to be available to swear in a new cabinet in late November.

He wrote to his generals to ask whether it would be reasonable to retaliate.