This is a serious request.
"I cannot remember ever making a serious request that I was turned down on," Thomas said.
He always declines, he said, noting that he accepts only cash and entertains serious requests for his services.
"We can't allow you to have additional guests and that is a serious request," the house rules read.
Wilson had made that statement, & especially if, like Kennedy, he had gone to make a serious request for funds with which to accomplish the project.
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.
"Sometimes people in pain are suffering and say 'I want to die,' but it is not a serious request", he says.
The Middle East is a place where yes means maybe, maybe means no, no is never heard (except in Israel), and a plea for a foreign solution to regional problems is a cop-out, not a serious request for action.
Here is the reader's message, and the deputy foreign editor's response: March 26, 2006 This is a serious request, and you or your assistant can answer simply with an e-mail.
Wilson had made that statement, & especially if, like Kennedy, he had gone to make a serious request for funds with which to accomplish the project... View Article By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By Malcolm Gladwell By Ceridwen Dovey.
