Sentence examples for leaders requesting from inspiring English sources

The Washington Post reported that Mr. Rangel, the powerful Ways and Means Committee chairman, wrote to scores of foundations and business leaders requesting their support "to locate the inspirational aspects of my legacy in my home Harlem community".

In a long letter sent to the Guardian and in telephone conversations, Papuan leaders requesting anonymity have complained that the company has blocked off their fishing grounds, attracted a flood of migrants to the villages, provided very few jobs for local people and is now siding with the Indonesian authorities against native Papuans who are engaged in a long struggle for independence.

Moreover, 237 of my House colleagues from both parties – more than half of the Congress – recently signed a letter to Senate leaders requesting quick action on our bill.

In fact, in December 2008, Senator Collins joined in a letter to Senate leaders requesting a $905 million increase for the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Under a security agreement signed by Iraq and the United States, all of the 46,000 remaining American troops are due to leave Iraq unless Iraqi leaders request otherwise.

Then, Southern Baptists, following their leaders' request, revised the denomination's statement of faith to include provisions supporting inerrancy and arguing against women as pastors.

Not for nothing was the 2010 General Election dubbed the "Mumsnet election", after the three main party leaders requested the opportunity to talk directly to the electorate, and to meet the woman behind it all.

Rebellion broke out in Saigon in 1833, and, when its leaders requested and received help from the Christian mission, Minh Mang was enraged and began active persecution of the Christians.

In a letter to the Pentagon yesterday, Democratic leaders requested information about the methods and activities of private security companies in Iraq, expressing concern that they could "contribute to Iraqi resentment".

Marshal Zhukov was glad to receive a case from General Eisenhower at the close of the Potsdam Conference, in 1945 (Zhukov's acceptance of the gift was doubtless unrelated to his subsequent fall from grace), and several other Soviet military leaders requested Coca-Cola an American Embassyssy party in Vienna in 1951, even though a prodigious supply of vodka had been laid in for them.

Those concerns gained more support when, in February, 2010, Obama issued an executive order declaring support for the schools and providing more funding for them, but declined to take up the college leaders' request that the Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities be moved from the Department of Education to the White House.