Sentence examples for requesting passage to from inspiring English sources

It starts in heaven with a stone politely requesting passage to earth from a Taoist priest and a Buddhist monk.

On the day before his death, a delirious Rimbaud dictated a letter to the head of an imaginary shipping company, urgently requesting passage to Suez.

In the summer of 1764, five Cherokee visited Timberlake, seeking an audience with the governor of Virginia and requesting passage to London.

Gary's immense head and hourglass-shaped skull loomed over us as we puttered by him, submissively requesting passage.

So, Jefferson lied to France, England, and Spain when he requested passage for a "scientific" expedition through their territories.

On the evening of May 17th, fully two days after the battle, this young Jewish soldier read to his dying Christian brother-in-arms, his requested passages from the New Testament.

For now, Tehran and Moscow seem to be in agreement: Iran allowed the use of its airspace for Russian cargo planes after Bulgaria yielded to the U.S. request to deny passage to them, the Times reported Monday.

Using procedural tactics, Democrats tried to force two votes by unanimous consent: one to approve the $1.9 billion sought by the Obama administration, and another requesting to speed up passage of a $1.1 billion measure that senators backed Tuesday.

SEEKING SAFE PASSAGE -- In the latest development, Taliban and Northern Alliance leaders met near Kunduz to discuss a surrender, including a request from the foreign troops for safe passage to Pakistan.

The society asked the Prince's office for the passage to be amended, but its request was refused.

He asked Human Rights Watch and Amnesty to assist him in securing guarantees of safe passage to Latin America, and to help him with his asylum request to Moscow.