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  • He is requiring that Magistrate judges not grant requestes for sealing w/o requiring the prosecution to give an actaul explaination of why it is needed and wants them to exercise some actual oversight of the government.

    Firedoglake » Safavian Found Guilty 2006

  • I probably sent over 100 requestes for data, reagents or biological cultures to scientists when I was doing science, many of them to fierce competitors whom I knew I would therefore be alerting to my research plans, and with the knowledge taht some of those srequests would be delayed or an attemtp made to ignore them becasue of the cometition.

    John Hunter on Sea Levels « Climate Audit 2006

  • Armenia rehearsed againe his requestes that he made, and also shewed wisely how all Christendome was sore decayed and feeblished by occasion of the warres betweene England and France.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • But he folowing the custome of louers, not thinking himselfe cast of for the first refuse, eftsones renewed his requestes: and framing a louing stile, besought her to haue pitie vppon him, and to respect the greatnesse of his passion: and that he could not prolonge his life without the fauour of her good grace, who onely was the very remedie of his euill.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Alacke, I thought then to finishe my sorowes and griefes, when (being alone) I began to frame the plot of my tormentes and paines, with so many formes and deuises in my fansie, as I do make wishes and requestes vpon the thing I loue and esteeme aboue all, vppon which all mine affections do depende and take their beginning.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • After the commissioners had willed theim to consulte vppon some determinate aunswere, they retourned to Rome, to make reporte to the Senate, of the peoples requestes.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • I spoke with a number of folks at SxSWi that confirmed my own experience that support requestes were becoming a real challenge in releasing free plugins and themes.

    alexking.org Alex 2010

  • God that it would please him either that he might liue or after death dwell with him in blisse; so likewise were the requestes of manie others in the like case.

    A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Thomas Hariot 1590

  • There the king of Armenia rehearsed againe his requestes that he made, and also shewed wisely how all Christendome was sore decayed and feeblished by occasion of the warres betweene England and France.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Kinge of Spaine, and was entred into the action for him, was not a little vexed for his brothers abusinge the Kinge of England, which had so curteously graunted all his requestes and accepted of his offer.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

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