Sentence examples for persistent requests for from inspiring English sources

Over six months, he said, city officials' persistent requests for meetings with state commissioners and the Port Authority had been rebuffed.

Records show that he made such persistent requests for favors that Amy Mansue, one of the governor's aides, once scrawled on a memo that he was "making me nuts".

"It appears that correction officers had grown impatient with Mr. Spear's persistent requests for medical treatment," the lawyers wrote, "and that they punished him by beating him to death".

Amid an angry exchange of words between London and Beijing, the British prime minister said: "I condemn the execution of Akmal Shaikh in the strongest terms and am appalled and disappointed that our persistent requests for clemency have not been granted.

Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage, touring Asia to rally support for American policy in Iraq, has gone out of his way to assure Japanese officials that their persistent requests for leniency in the case of a former American serviceman are being heard in Washington.

Then there's the book introduction I promised I'd write and the play to be finished and the radio play and the research for the next novel (which is alternately exhilarating and brain-melting – while always being terrifying) and all of the small, but persistent requests for prose that seem to rise up with the morning and hang about my shins until I either fall over or deal with them.

Reporters on the daily newspaper fear the arrival of the Sunday Times editor, possibly with other executives in tow, will lead to the arrival of a Daily Mail-style agenda and persistent request for "celebrity angles" on stories.

Karl, one of only nine NBA coaches with more than 1,000 career victories, described an organization-wide sense of relief when the Nuggets finally accommodated Anthony's persistent request for a trade out of Denver in 2011, calling it "a sweet release for the coach and the team, like popping a blister".

After persistent requests from women in the area, they reopened it two weeks ago.

In Cuba my calls are met with equally polite and persistent requests to call again tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, for the duration of my stay.

For example, fathers would attend parent-teacher meetings when mothers were unavailable, take a sick child to the hospital, or discipline the children for difficult issues (usually upon mothers' persistent requests).