#request

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#common #eminent #fear #few #give

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have. ↗

— Rick Wagoner

#aside #ceo #course #friday #gm

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863. ↗

— Carl Spitteler

#i #law #request #study #took

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#captured #consider #duress #ever #i

It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command. ↗

— George Crook

#command #department #eight #hardest #however

Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before. ↗

— John Hawley

#been #before #had #here #i