Although several Democrats confirmed that Comey had informed lawmakers of the request he made last week in a meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, the Justice Department denied those reports.
When the Japanese government denied repeated requests he made for permission to assist the refugees, Sugihara may have realized that these two codes of behavior were in conflict and that he faced a bright-line ethical test.
It perfectly fulfills one of the requests he would make thirteen years later in a well-known essay, "Politics and the English Language," for "a fresh, vivid, home-made turn of speech".
The first request he made was to a friend of his who is 13....along with an e-mail message which he typed out completely independently.
On 2 June, Obama, out of "an abundance of caution," asked House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to add $2 billion of supplemental money to the 30 April request he made for $1.5 billion (upped to $2 billion by the House).
At the first lady's request, he made an exception, baking a mocha cake layered with coffee buttercream and walnuts at least 20 times in eight years.
Snowden did not discuss the status of a request he made earlier this month to extend his Russian visa, which expires at the end of July.
When the city staff denied his request, he made it their problem, too.
In a letter on Monday, Secretary Jewell asked Mr. Bloomberg to provide a letter rescinding a 2010 request he made to the Park Service to vacate Battery Park.
During the summer of 1889, at sister Wil's request, he made several smaller versions of Wheat Field with Cypresses.
