Sentence examples for request to borrow from inspiring English sources

It has thrown its weight behind the Guggenheim request to borrow the picture for a year.

In a separate action, a bankruptcy court judge on Thursday approved Adelphia's request to borrow up to $1.5 billion in new money while it tries to restructure.

(In 2007, the Louvre withdrew a request to borrow the statue for a Praxiteles show after the Greek government claimed the statue had been fished out of international waters and belonged to Italy).

But county lawmakers immediately rejected the biggest component of Mr. Gulotta's plan that requires their approval: his request to borrow the remaining $54 million of the county's share of the nation's tobacco settlement.

Last year the Louvre in Paris withdrew a request to borrow the statue for an exhibition on Praxiteles after the Greek government said it was fished out of international waters and belonged to Italy.

When the Norwich Castle Museum was approached in 1947, with a request to borrow a large embroidery which they had in storage, the curator agreed on condition that her name was not mentioned, "because, quite frankly, I do not think work of this type comes under the heading of art".

The British Museum spokesman said: "We have requested to borrow one object from Greece and await the official response.

Ms. Blunt still recalls a Chinese classmate in junior high ignoring her requests to borrow a pencil.

The president occasionally requested to borrow Johnson's services from the Treasury for a whole day or two, and Johnson accompanied Lincoln on his famous trip to Gettysburg on Nov. 18, 1863.

I know what it's like having to put up with an invading force of bearded men with odd haircuts, dressed in outdated clothing, using bizarre lingo, and field their continual requests to borrow a plough.

He refused McCourt's requests to borrow $200 million from Fox yet learned that McCourt had taken an advance from Fox last year on his 2011 television rights; most recently, he received a personal loan of $30 million from Fox that McCourt said was preferable to borrowing from his fellow owners (and showed how strongly Fox wanted to retain Dodgers rights for many years in the future).