Sentence examples for requesting favors from inspiring English sources

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In particular, the author blames "clientelism" — "interest groups within society requesting favors from politicians as clients, often with little regard to a reciprocal contribution to the economy".

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He also claimed he had not profited financially from any of the requested favors.

Further police actions ranged from ordering the women to throw condoms away to requesting sexual favors to stomping on their wigs.

In "Dark Star," André Szara, a foreign correspondent for Pravda in the 1930s (modeled on the Russian journalist Ilya Ehrenburg), knows better than to say no when his government's security services request favors in Ostend, Berlin and Prague.

Interact with strangers nicely and calmly, request favors patiently, respond to others promptly and remember your pleases and thank-you's.

A well-developed vocabulary identifies basic types of exchange: omiyage (souvenirs), otsukaimono (token items presented when requesting a favor of someone -- utterly different from wairo, or bribery), omimai (get-well gifts), and okaeshi ("return" gifts).

Never end a letter requesting a favor without thanking the recipient.

We request two favors, which actually are not two favors but two moral duties of you: Stop the flow of money and stop the flow of weapons.

Have you asked a friend to request fewer favors, or been called out on one-way playtime?

The gurus often purport to be celibate, they encourage their followers to be celibate, and then, clandestinely, they request sexual favors.

(Smith said that the White House's NASA budget request favored the earth sciences "at the expense of the other science divisions and human and robotic space exploration").

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