Sentence examples for oppose a request from inspiring English sources

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They said they would oppose a request for Supreme Court review, though perhaps not very strenuously.

With no one present to oppose a request, there is the danger that secrecy becomes the rule rather than the exception to efforts to obtain digital information.

As a result, the department said, prosecutors "do not oppose" a request made this month by Mr. Moussaoui's court-appointed lawyers for the indictment to be thrown out.

Michigan's election rules allow a candidate to oppose a request from another for a recount, but it is unclear whether the Trump campaign would decide to take advantage of this.

Residents turned out in force Wednesday for a City Planning Commission hearing to oppose a request by Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center for zoning changes to allow it to build a 440-foot research tower.

A36 Rail Unions Tackle Safety Issue Citing a string of recent derailments and other safety concerns, five labor unions are asking the federal transportation secretary to oppose a request by the nation's largest railroad, Union Pacific, to allow its trains to skip inspections after entering the country from Mexico.

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Front page: a news item on Richland Creek, whose Watershed Alliance is opposing a request by Metro Parks to continue taking water from the stream to irrigate McCabe Golf Course.

Spitzer doesn't seem so keen on this; he has opposed a request to have his e-mails searched as part of a civil fraud case against A.I.G. that began when he was attorney general.

In September 2011, Israeli officials opposed a request by the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, that the United Nations Security Council recognize Palestinian independence by granting full UN membership to a Palestinian state.

The federal appeals court in Chicago had held Mr. Black's lawyers responsible for the confusion because they had opposed a request from the prosecutors to ask the jury to fill out a form specifying the basis of the conviction.

Tobin's nomination also carries a political message ahead of the US election, given that he openly opposed a request from Indiana governor Mike Pence, now Donald Trump's running mate, to not settle Syrian refugees in the state.

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