Sentence examples for requests could not from inspiring English sources

Moreover, five web requests could not be completed, probably because of time-out errors.

Praveen's claim at the time that he was told his wife, despite several requests, could not get an abortion, because "Ireland was a Catholic country", has been vindicated.

Afterwards, requests could not be sent until the patient was ready for surgery.

Some students, despite my requests, couldn't resist checking for text messages or surfing on Facebook.

As a result, people couldn't access Gmail via the web interface because their requests couldn't be routed to a Gmail server.

Beyond that, he added, there's no reason that similar requests couldn't be made to other phone companies — a situation that he believes would be disastrous for the population.

Back came the answer that his request could not be processed because of "the trade sanctions imposed on Iraq by our government".

But after initially signaling that his government was studying the request, Mr. Correa said Thursday that under his country's laws, the request could not be processed unless Mr. Snowden was in Ecuador or one of its embassies.

In a decade when the issue of counterfeit wines had begun to haunt many collectors, such a request could not help but raise suspicions, as rare bottles with intact labels could easily be filled and sold fraudulently.

Ron Webb, the designer who also oversaw the creation of Olympic velodromes in Sydney and Athens, and who declined an interview request, could not obtain a ticket to any of the events inside the arena he helped build.

The state education chiefs acknowledged that the changes they were requesting could not be accommodated within the current law, and asked for Congress to revise the law -- something that Congress appears unlikely to consider this year.