Sentence examples for requests of his from inspiring English sources
He made no specific requests of his guards or of doctors who visited him twice a day to treat wounds he received during a prison uprising at Mazar-i-Sharif, they said.
He might have some requests of his own with which you might not totally agree, but having a healthy relationship requires some compromises for the sake of your partner's feelings, and that should be the priority here.
Mr. Pruitt's repeated requests of his staff have led some important backers, including Senator James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, to suggest that Mr. Pruitt may have crossed the line and should perhaps step down.
"He disregarded the passionate requests of his staff that he steer clear of an international meeting that everyone thought was going to be a train wreck and jumped right in to work on what we all see as a huge problem".
In an 1853 short story Herman Melville gave us Bartleby, the obstinate scrivener and apex procrastinator, who confounds the requests of his boss with his hallowed mantra, "I would prefer not to". A perfect employee on the surface — he never leaves the office and sleeps at his desk — Bartleby represents a total rebellion against the expectations placed on him by society.
Having read in this department that Monty Wolley, while acting as guest Santa Claus at Macy's, listened to the requests of his young visitors and then invariably remarked to them, "Well, that's hard to get," the aunt of a lad who this year had the first contact of his life with Santa informs us that she questioned him after ward as to what the old gentleman had said to him.
At the request of his friend Charles Bonnet, Spallanzani investigated the male contribution to generation.
Mr. Burden declined to comment at the request of his client.
At the request of his fellow committee members he wrote the first draft.
Kirch and Christfried took over Hevelius's observatory in Danzig at the request of his family.
He named his youngest son Shujaa too at the request of his friends.
