Sentence examples similar to request of recognition from inspiring English sources

Hours before President Mahmoud Abbas's address to the United Nations general assembly and his formal request for recognition of a Palestinian state, the man, identified as Issam Badran, 35, was shot in the neck, according to witnesses including an Associated Press reporter.

Obama made a bold speech last week asking for Israel to return to 1967 boundaries — only to be snubbed by Benjamin Netanyahu, who got a standing ovation in Congress, and also by Mahmoud Abbas, disappointed that the U.S. president would not support his request for recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September.

In 2002, the community of Bombas entered a request for recognition as Quilombo to the Land Institute of São Paulo, hoping not only for recognition, but also for the withdrawal of the Park and effective action from the State to improve their living conditions.

Yet today, I am hostile to the strange request of unilateral recognition that is to be discussed in the coming days by the United Nations Security Council in New York -- and I am compelled to say why.

Far from an insignificant accessory, that surf-wax comb became a serious request for recognition.

Dr. Fisher has met with some of the faculty and with a gay Christian student group whose requests for recognition have been denied.

The Temenggong agreed to the Sultan's request of his titular recognition as the Sultan of Johor, but was adamant of maintaining absolute charge over the whole of Johor.

Our data demonstrate that the request of an explicit recognition of one's own body does not lead to the emergence of the self-advantage.

In an Op-Ed article in The New York Times on Tuesday that analysts interpreted as the diplomatic equivalent of a declaration of war on the status quo, Mr. Abbas said flatly that he would request international recognition of the state of Palestine, based on the borders of Israel before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

In his 17 May op-ed article in the Times, "The Long Overdue Palestinian State", Abbas laid out his plan to request international recognition of the "State of Palestine" along the Green Line that is commonly referred to as the pre-June 1967 border – that is, to achieve statehood without negotiating with Israel.

This month, however, as we commemorate another year of our expulsion — which we call the nakba, or catastrophe — the Palestinian people have cause for hope: this September, at the United Nations General Assembly, we will request international recognition of the State of Palestine on the 1967 border and that our state be admitted as a full member of the United Nations.