He added, "This decision was not caused by pressure, but rather the request of my friends that I should decide on one of the two options".
The "big fat steak," a strip steak served with fries and a salad, was medium rather than the requested medium-rare, and the fries, which made such a terrific appetizer another evening, were limp.
A thick-cut slab of calf's liver — served with buttery mashed potatoes, sautéed onions in a cream sauce and a garnish of deep-fried onions — was cooked to medium, rather than the requested rare.
And design work on a massive new neutrino experiment to be headquartered at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, will be accelerated by getting $26 million rather than the requested $16 million.
The paper's higher-ups reviewed the proposal and offered Harris and VandeHei new editorial positions and three additional staffers, rather than the requested four dozen.
If you would rather deny the request, tap the red "X".
Asked what would happen if, next time, the Russians came with orders rather than requests, the men claimed to have no doubt.
Or rather, the US Defense Information Systems Agency, at the request of the US Cyber Command, blocked access to commercial, web-based email servers — like Google's Gmail, Yahoo, and so on — on its unclassified internet network, for all of its personnel in what it calls the "National Capital Region," or the area in and around Washington.
Rather than heed the request, he appears to have somehow convinced the board to issue a statement supporting without qualification his continued position as chairman.
The government review headed by Sir Scott Baker was told by the specialist extradition judges in London that there was not a single case decided under the 2003 Act in which it would have been in the interests of justice to have tried in the UK, rather than in the requesting territory.
