We listened to community leaders from across the nation make moving, powerful requests of EPA to finalize strong, meaningful standards that will protect their health, their families, and their homes.
Powerful requests are clear.
This law is so powerful your request could manifest instantly and powerfully without warning.
This remark encapsulates one of Barnett's strengths, a sense of humour, sometimes self-deprecating, which made him popular, and able to remain friends with powerful ministers whose requests for money he turned down.
Were Palin truly a trusted and powerful woman she'd request and be granted autonomy on stage, and reject McCain's Taliban-like presence.
The White House social secretary must turn down requests from powerful people, who are often dying for a seat at the president's table.
In the face of the threat of a missile attack, Taiwan has requested more powerful arms from the United States -- most recently destroyers equipped with Aegis anti-missile systems and Tomahawk cruise missiles with a striking range well beyond the width of the narrow strait.
In a rare rebuke to the admiral and his command, powerful House and Senate officials rejected the request, saying it was causing "unnecessary confusion and friction".
Saturday's ruling came at the request of the powerful Investigative Committee, which has recently revived several stalled criminal investigations against Russian opposition leaders including Aleksei Navalny, a popular blogger and corruption whistle-blower.
"This remedies request offers a powerful, compelling blueprint for restoring competition and for stopping Microsoft's misuse of its monopoly power," said Richard Blumenthal, who is the attorney general of Connecticut and one of the leaders of the group.
