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He said what happened to the levee in Pajaro could have been prevented had resources been provided to the community to rebuild the levee — something it had been requesting since the 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2023

At the time, the agency had been requesting Direct Hiring Authority for over two years.

From Washington Times • Aug. 23, 2022

Ms. Skoryk-Shkarivska said City Council officials had been requesting permission to bury the unidentified remains for weeks, but the continuing investigations had delayed the process.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022

In December, a 28-year-old Frenchwoman with diabetes died in a camp in Syria, leaving her 6-year-old daughter an orphan, according to the family’s lawyer, who had been requesting their return since 2019.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2022

Fixlein had, not long ago, among the rubbish of the church letter-room, stumbled on a paper wherein the Geographer had been requesting special information about the statistics of the village.

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul