Sentence examples for served asked him from inspiring English sources

By the time James Monroe, the fourth President he served, asked him to return home and become Secretary of State, Adams was amply prepared to take over a department whose disorganized Washington office consisted of four clerks.

"So you're not saying no completely that he won't serve?" asked David Gregory, the host of "Meet the Press".

"What possible purpose does this kind of lashing out serve?" asked Paul Krugman. "Will activists be shamed into recovering their previous enthusiasm?

"How big a step is it from where we are right now to the president saying it is the national interest that everyone serve?" asked Mr. McDermott.

Ludo returned from visiting a friend in Ibiza on the night of our anniversary and, before serving, I asked him what he'd done there.

Thank you for serving.' I asked him, 'Why are you thanking me?' 'You will no longer be on the council.' I was one of two members who hadn't been reappointed for a second two-year term.

When she was serving refreshments and asked him what he would like to drink he replied, 'A little blood from you.' " The flight attendant had bruises on her neck and was still shocked but otherwise relieved, Mr. Djurisic said.

"We looked at this case and said, 'When he presents to a jury that he served his country like his country asked him to serve, and even his country admits, with his discharge and his disability pay, that he has severe psychological trauma' — we felt there was a very good chance that the members of a jury would find him not guilty and basically punish the government for the position he's in".

Even so, when inquisitive people asked him who served as model for his heroine, Flaubert replied, "Madame Bovary is myself".

Mr. Rumsfeld asked him to serve as the Pentagon's reconstruction coordinator in Afghanistan.

Mr. Hemrick said the Cain campaign had asked him to serve as its financial chairman for Tennessee.