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In Iowa, the memo notes, the campaign has a "lead in vote-by-mail ballots cast, in-person early voting, total voting and total ballots requested".
A spokesperson for the acting minister for immigration and border protection, Julie Bishop, said: "The government provided the high court with the information it requested.
They were shown other internal emails in which he requested payments: " It seems to me he has all this glory and u guys get his support in other things.
"The traffic of human beings is a service widely requested on the market," said one 35-year-old smuggler in Zuwara, who would not give his name.
Maybe the nail varnish she had requested from her beautician had failed to come in – who knows?
When Facebook's published its requests data, the general counsel, Ted Ullyot, wrote: "We aggressively protect our users' data when confronted with such requests: we frequently reject such requests outright, or require the government to substantially scale down its requests, or simply give the government much less data than it has requested".
In a nod to news stories that have emerged from the country gamers can also ride Chicago Bulls basketballs, in homage to Denis Rodman, and fly giant rabbits based on reports that the North Korean embassy requested a shipment from a breeder in Germany in 2007.
"One Sinhalese Sri Lankan woman was recommended for refugee status, but we're told she voluntarily requested to depart [for Sri Lanka] with the others as she didn't want to be left alone.
In 2006, the six imams, all of Middle Eastern descent, were accused of suspicious behaviour after they prayed before their flight and one imam requested a longer seatbelt on account of his obesity.
Indeed, it's hard not to empathise with some of the requests that we've seen – from the man who asked that we do not show a news article saying that he had been questioned in connection with a crime (he's able to demonstrate that he was never charged) to the mother who requested that we remove news articles for her daughter's name as she had been the victim of abuse.
Today, he specifically requested a journalist who had never met him before and he hoped that the encounter would be "more upbeat" than has often been the case.
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The primary grammatical function of "requested" is as the past tense or past participle of the verb "request". Ludwig examples confirm its use to indicate a past action of asking for something. It can also function as an adjective, as in "the requested data".
Expression frequency: Very common
