Sentence examples for requested a large from inspiring English sources

A local security official said they had requested a large strike because fighter jets and drones had failed to the destroy the tunnel complex.

Last month, Texas prison officials decided to end the tradition of special meals for inmates facing execution after Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, requested a large dinner before his Sept. 21 lethal injection.

Cutting federal spending may be a rhetorical cornerstone of the Tea Party and the congressional members of its official caucus, but a recent report finds that its delegates requested a large number of earmarks in the 111th Congress at a cost of more than $1 billion to taxpayers.

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, a Republican-turned-independent, and the state's GOP-led legislature acted swiftly last year when Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska requested a large rate increase and Moda Health announced it was leaving the state's individual insurance market.

Under the new budget law, Mr. Obama could have requested a larger increase in the debt limit if Congress had agreed on a constitutional amendment to require balanced budgets or if deficit-reducing recommendations from a joint committee had become law.

Staff members of Congressional committees who review the intelligence budget say that Mr. Tenet has requested a larger sum for this year, in excess of $27 billion, and that the House intelligence committee already has voted to increase the sum by $260 million at the request of Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Parliamentarians had requested a larger budget, including €100 billion for Horizon 2020, while the European Commission had initially proposed €80 billion.

He claimed he rang the operator and told them of the tyres being in his boot and requested a larger vehicle be sent to the woman.

Following the Battle of the Komandorski Islands, Admiral Kinkaid requested a larger force of 25,000 troops to support an assault on Kiska.

Except for requesting a large increase in non-military aid, it sounded very much like the Johnson-Nixon foreign policy.

By David Segal Almost every week, one of Horace Madison's clients telephones the offices of his business-management firm to request a large sum of money for some new extravagance.