Sentence examples for originally been asked from inspiring English sources

He felt the victim of a bait and switch; like at least one other black artist on the programme, he'd originally been asked to perform for a human rights rally, pure and simple.

Wenders says he had originally been asked to make a film of Salgado's Genesis project, in which Salgado planned to photograph those areas of the planet still untouched by human development.

Then earlier this month Mr. Burris sent a "supplemental affidavit" to the committee in which he acknowledged that in the months before his appointment, he had spoken with many of the Blagojevich allies he had originally been asked about.

Salomon had originally been asked to represent Comcast, but had to decline because Sanford I. Weill, the chairman of Citigroup, Salomon's parent, is on the board of AT&T, an executive said.

Holm had originally been asked to join Mercyful Fate back in 1981, but had declined due to prior commitments.

Fujima had originally been asked to draw Free Collars Kingdom in a style he had used previously on other works.

To get a sufficient number of participants for the cluster-randomized WIDA-trial, a total of 169 quality circles (QCs) originally were asked to take part in this study.

The Kurdish Peshmerga military force had originally not been asked to the Washington conference even though they were in the forefront of the military campaign, prompting angry complaints from the Iraqi Kurds.

Originally, Johnson/Burgee had been asked to serve as design consultants to the Minneapolis architectural firm of Edward F. Baker Associates, which had already drawn up plans for the IDS building; then the project developed into a joint venture and the original design was scrapped.

Originally, Keane had been asked to work on Ursula, as he had established a reputation for drawing large, powerful figures, such as the bear in The Fox and the Hound and Professor Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective.

Originally Kartheiser was asked to appear for one episode "Origin" but the crew and Kartheiser enjoyed working with revamped Connor so much that "it became clear to [them] that he had to appear for the series finale".