There was something that had been developed by Exxon called SCAMP, the submerged cleaning and maintenance platform, so I requested to become a member of the network and have that sort of equipment in Gibraltar, and we succeeded in that.
More than 500 researchers attend the Annual Maize Genetics Conference each year, and the number of maize 'Cooperators' is over 1600 at present (where Cooperators are researchers who have attended at least one Annual Maize Genetics Conference or who have specifically requested to become a maize Cooperator).
Fraley said he received 65 emails in a single weekend from people requesting to become precinct chairs, a thankless job that normally requires begging and pleading to get someone to fill.
When Austria signed its 1955 state treaty, it had to agree, at Russia's request, to become permanently neutral.
Among Timmy's requests: to become an adult who is not sent to bed at 6 30 pm.
I was snowed under with requests to become a friend on Facebook, even from people I did not know.
Reagan appeared with Margaret Heckler, who had resigned as Sec. of Health & Human Services, and agreed, at the President's request, to become Ambassador to Ireland.
The Queen, with her wartime attachment in the army, made no serious requests to become the curator of the Army Transport Museum after her accession to the throne.
Regulators informally rejected its request to become a bank holding company late last year, even while approving an application for such a conversion by GMAC.
Banna, from north-west London, was arrested in the Gambia in 2002 after he did not accept an MI5 request to become an informant.
"While it is true," he also wrote, "that the person who receives the 'friend request' could simply deny the request to become 'friends,' that request was still a contact and 'no contact' was allowed by the order of the protection".
