It was understood that Mr. Guldi's request for a permanent sound barrier would come later.
"While in and of itself, the request could be understood as just a plea for mercy, which is not obviously obstructive," the Lawfare writers explain, "the fact that it comes from a superior with the power to remove the investigator alongside the fact that Trump then did fire Comey makes obstruction a plausible reading of the apparent facts".
On this occasion Rooney has not submitted a formal transfer request, but it is understood he asked verbally to leave. .
Plus, these requests had to be understood in context; if Priscilla Chan, Zuckerberg's wife and co-chair of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, asked for something to be done "in my office," that should trigger a different action than if her husband made the exact same request.
The identity of the individual requesting a change to Google's search results has not been disclosed and may never be known, but it is understood the request will be put into effect within days.
It is understood the request was relayed to Triggs on behalf of Brandis by the secretary of his department, Chris Moraitis.
It is understood this request will be for bans of several years, based on four potential ethics code breaches: mismanagement, conflict of interest, false accounting and failure to co-operate with, or criticising, the ethics committee.
Requests for asylum from Egyptians are understood to have increased since the 2013 coup.
could be understood as a request for an answer such as "Thursday, June 24", as a reminder of the importance of the day, or as a test of the addressee's mental alertness.
Both can be performed with the same utterance, e.g. a single word "Water" as in the example above, but their communicative functions are determined by the preceding context: following a question, such as "What is this called?", this utterance is interpreted as the case of Naming, whereas following an offer, e.g. "What would you like?", the same utterance may be understood as a Request.
