Mr. Hagel was in the region to try to revitalize America's faltering "pivot" to Asia and had one especially pressing request for Ms. Park: to try to get along better with Japan.
Clinically, patients with infantile cerebral palsy sometimes present with severe low back pain and a pressing request for reduction of painful symptoms.
God forbid we concede to the Syrian Sunni rebels' most pressing request and arm them with Stinger ground-to-air heat seeking missiles to defend themselves from Assad government air attacks and one of these missiles is subsequently used by their Al Qaeda allies to shoot down a civilian-packed airliner.
Author: Cossee, O. Background Since the 1980's, many multilateral aid organizations have had to reform their ways of operation, often under the pressing request of their respective governing bodies.
In pressing their request for nearly $20 billion for reconstructing Iraq, Bush administration officials have been invoking the Marshall Plan, as President Bush himself did when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly last month.
The battle is being played out both in a court in Volusia County, Fla., where The Sentinel is pressing its request, and in Tallahassee, where the State Senate majority leader, James E. King Jr., proposed legislation yesterday that would exempt autopsy photographs from the state's liberal public records law and make unauthorized distribution of such photographs a felony.
The disclosure of the normally confidential teleconference came as European Union paymaster Germany said it was up to Spain, the latest euro zone country in the markets' firing line, to decide if it needed financial assistance, after media reports that Berlin was pressing Madrid to request aid.
Six months ago, when David Cameron was trying to wrap up his renegotiation with the EU, the mood in European capitals was one of barely hidden annoyance – the "British question" needed to be dealt with swiftly so that the EU could get back to addressing more serious and pressing challenges than the requests coming from London.
France has been pressing the Palestinians to request that the General Assembly upgrade their current status, as an organization, to an observer state, but it was unclear that the Palestinians would go that route.
A STEADY rain was soaking the windows of La Guardia Airport when Nancy Thode, an elite frequent flier with Delta Air Lines, approached a gate agent with a pressing question: Had her request for an upgrade cleared?
