Sentence examples for requests to become from inspiring English sources

I was snowed under with requests to become a friend on Facebook, even from people I did not know.

Among Timmy's requests: to become an adult who is not sent to bed at 6 30 pm.

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.

Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs were trading lower, a day after the Fed approved their requests to become bank-holding companies.

When Austria signed its 1955 state treaty, it had to agree, at Russia's request, to become permanently neutral.

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.

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".

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.

By contrast, Dennis Griffee, a wounded veteran who is national commander of the Iraq War Veterans Organization, said he turned down a request to become involved with the film after learning that Susan Sarandon, a vocal opponent of the war, had a prominent role.