Sentence examples for step of asking from inspiring English sources

"So we took the step of asking for the letter".

The government has taken the unusual step of asking for the maximum: 215 years.

It's that step of asking ourselves why that really allows us to learn the lessons from that experience.

Then the producers took the unusual step of asking her to try writing something specifically for the show.

Science, the medical journal that published the research (conducted by the Whittemore Peterson Institute of Reno) has taken the unusual step of asking for a retraction.

The Justice Department has already taken the unusual step of asking BP for advance notice of major asset sales or cash transfers.

Without any immediate takers and the team in need of cash, the Mets took the step of asking Major League Baseball for a $25 million loan.

In 2007 he took the extraordinary step of asking a former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, to lead an independent inquiry into BAE's ethical standards.

Prosecutors took the rare step of asking the court to unseal records of four of the protesters' prior arrests on civil disobedience charges that had been dismissed.

Late last fall, in a remote village in the north of Labrador, native leaders took the extraordinary step of asking the government to take their children away.

Agent Joy, who still works for the bureau, took the unusual step of asking the government for official protection as a whistle-blower.